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Why the First Week of Fall Is the Best Time to Light Up Image credit: Flux.1 There is something about the shift into September and October that make

Miami Cigar & Co. Brings Back the Nestor Miranda Private Reserve Lancero — and It's Already Flying Off Shelves There is a quiet confidence in doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. While the premium cigar market has spent the better part of a decade sprinting toward ever-fatter rin

From Smoke Rings to Biotech: Green Leaf Innovations Bets Big on Luxury, E-Commerce, and Organic Farming A Florida-based cigar company announcing a stake in a marine biotechnology and organic fertilizer firm might raise eyebrows in any other era. But Green Leaf Innovations, Inc. (OTCID: GRLF) has b

Timex Blacks Out Its Most Rugged Automatic — And Only Charges $10 More for It There is a particular kind of watch buyer who doesn't want to be seen trying. He's not chasing a luxury logo or a fashion-forward colorway. He wants something that disappears into the wrist during a hard day's work, surv

Domain Cigars Moves Beyond the Humidor: A New Distribution Operation Changes the Game In the premium cigar world, getting the tobacco right is only half the battle. For smaller brands, especially those operating outside the United States, the other half — navigating state licensing, wholesale logi

General Cigar's Washington Play: How America's Biggest Premium Cigar Company Is Betting on Cuba Trade Policy In the cigar world, few moves carry as much weight as what happens in Washington. And right now, General Cigar Company — the Richmond, Virginia-based titan that dominates the American premi

Inside the American Cigar Boom: Numbers, Nuance, and What Comes Next There is a moment in any good conversation about cigars when the numbers stop being numbers and start telling a story. That is precisely what Cigar Aficionado executive editor David Savona and managing editor Greg Mottola set o

Britain's Cigar Industry Faces Its Most Existential Crisis in Centuries The handmade cigar has survived wars, economic depressions, shifting cultural tastes, and decades of mounting tobacco restrictions. Now, a two-pronged regulatory assault from the British government is threatening to do what no

The Hand-Rolled Cigar Is Having Its Moment — And the Numbers Prove It There is something unhurried about a hand-rolled cigar. The ritual of cutting, lighting, and drawing from a stick that required hours of skilled labor to construct runs directly against the grain of the modern attention economy.

The World's Most Exclusive Cigar Club Has Arrived There's a moment, usually somewhere between your second bourbon and the quiet glow of a well-lit stick, when a great cigar lounge stops being just a room and starts feeling like a place that actually gets you. I had that moment years ago in a small