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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

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.

Diesel Uncaged: Forged Cigar Company Drops a New Everyday Powerhouse Built for the Bold There is a particular kind of cigar smoker who doesn't want a special occasion. He wants Tuesday night. He wants the end of a long shift, a cold drink, a porch, and something in his hand that doesn't apologize

Casa Carrillo La Historia Silk Is Back — And This Time It's Smoking for a Cause There are cigars built to sell, and there are cigars built to mean something. Casa Carrillo's La Historia Silk has always been the latter — a limited-production smoke born out of genuine conversations, deliberate craft

The American Cigar Market in 2026: A Plateau Hiding Serious Shifts Beneath the Surface On paper, the numbers look stable. The American premium cigar market has now strung together a half-decade of volumes that would have seemed extraordinary just a few years ago. But dig beneath the headline figur

From Firecracker to Full Line: United Cigars Turns Its Independence Smash Hit Into a Permanent Offering There are limited releases that sell out quietly, their memory fading with the smoke, and then there are limited releases that create enough noise to reshape a company's product road map entirel

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