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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

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

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

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