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Principle Cigars Drops a New Corona Into the Martinique Lineup — and It's Already Sold Out There's a particular kind of credibility that comes with selling out your entire first production run before most of the cigar world even knows a new vitola exists. That's exactly where Darren Cioffi and Pri

Asia's Biggest Cigar Festival Just Went Global — And American Buyers Were There There is a city in East Java, Indonesia, that cigar men are starting to pay very close attention to. It sits about 600 kilometers east of Jakarta, tucked between volcanic highlands and the Indian Ocean, and its rich vo

Davidoff Year of the Horse Limited Edition 2026 Toro Especial: A Cigar Worth Saddling Up For There are limited editions, and then there are Davidoff Zodiac releases. The two categories exist in the same premium cigar market but operate on entirely different planes of ambition, craft, and spectacle

The Cohiba Talismán Is Going Permanent: What It Means for the World's Most Coveted Cigar Brand There are very few cigars in the modern era that have generated the kind of sustained hysteria the Cohiba Talismán did when it first appeared on the market. Lines outside London retailers, secondary mark

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David vs. Goliath in a Cloud of Smoke: A Small Cigar Maker Takes On Altria for $8 Billion It is the kind of story that would feel implausible in a Hollywood script — a one-man premium cigar operation, rooted in a personal tribute to a tobacco-farming father, now locked in a federal legal battle ag

Craig Reynolds Brings Big-League Experience to Best Cigar Prices as New Advisor The premium cigar industry runs on institutional knowledge — the kind built over decades of navigating mergers, acquisitions, retail expansions, and the shifting tastes of millions of smokers. When someone with that de

Empty Shelves, Scarce Smoke: Cuba's Cigar Crisis Is the Worst in Decades Walk into a premium tobacco shop in London, Toronto, or Dubai right now and ask for a Cohiba Siglo VI or a Montecristo No. 2. The answer — if the retailer is being straight with you — is some version of the same story: there

The $27 Cohiba and What It Really Means: Inside the Exploding Cost of Premium Cigars Walk into a newly opened cigar shop with a liquor license — the kind of place with leather chairs, Spanish cedar humidor walls, and soft lighting that makes every smoke feel like an occasion — and you may find you

The Premium Cigar Association Is Going Global — and It's Just Getting Started For most of its nearly century-long existence, the Premium Cigar Association operated with a fundamentally domestic mindset. Founded in 1933 as the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, the organization spent decades focuse