News: E.P. Carrillo Confirms INCH 7 x 70 and Band for Perez-Carrillo Line

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E.P. Carrillo has confirmed that they will be adding a 7 x 70 vitola to their INCH line, which debuted at the 2012 IPCPR convention and trade show. In a video with OverACigar.com filmed at CigarFest, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo announced the release, saying that the INCH has been “very, very popular for us.” Ernesto Perez-Carrillo III [...]

News: E.P. Carrillo Lounge Exclusive for Smokin’ Joe’s

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On Wednesday, Smokin’ Joe’s in Alcoa, Tenn. announced the arrival of the E.P. Carrillo Lounge Exclusive, a cigar being produced exclusively for them in recognition of being the first E.P. Carrillo branded lounge in the world. News of the new arrival came via this picture posted on the store’s Twitter and Facebook accounts: Image via [...]

News: Tatuaje Federal 90th Gets Formal Redux

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A post on Tatuaje’s Saints & Sinners message board this week announced plans for the Tatuaje Exclusive Series Federal Cigar 90th Anniversary Redux that will be arriving in mid March, and a post on Federal Cigar’s Facebook page Wednesday afternoon confirmed the news. The cigar is a new blend but comes in the same 7 [...]

News: Federal Cigar Celebrating 92nd Anniversary with E.P. Carrillo

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Federal Cigar in southeast New Hampshire has announced an upcoming limited edition release that will celebrate the store’s 92nd anniversary. The Federal Cigar 92nd Anniversary EPC Medalla D’ Oro is slated to be released in early March and will be limited to 500 ten-count boxes that will sell for $85 each. Rick Gadway, owner of Federal [...]

News: Crowned Heads Adding J.D. Howard Reserve

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Crowned Heads is preparing to launch a third line of cigars, dubbed the J.D. Howard Reserve, they they expect to have ready for the IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in July. Slated to be a five-vitola release, it will use a blend consisting of a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper, Ecuadoran Sumatra binder and filler from Nicaragua. [...]

News: Crowned Heads to Release Limited Edition ‘Mule Kick’

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Following up on a tweet sent on August 30th, Crowned Heads has announced plans for a new limited edition cigar that they are calling the ‘Mule Kick’ to be released in early November. Details of this new release were first discussed in this interview on RobbyRasReviews/CigarChat. According to an article by David Savona, the line [...]

Weekly News (March 28, 2011)

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Pete Johnson gave an update to Saints & Sinners. Pete is waiting on swag for the club, which he says won’t be in until May, meaning that he’s going to hold back the launch a bit later than the April 1st (Friday) launch date he wanted. The good news is, it shouldn’t be much longer [...]

Weekly News (March 7, 2011)

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A week after Jerry Cruz proclaimed that the only one who did news was CA, and everyone else shouldn’t really try; Jerry did a bit of “advertising” for himself over at Stogie Review. This time it was two massive updates to the respective futures of E.P. Carrillo and Tatuaje. In addition, this week saw updates [...]

Weekly News (February 21, 2011)

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At the end of each Monday, I wonder what cigar news we could possibly have for next week, each week we seem to deliver. It’s Cuba’s most popular cigar week as the XIII Festival del Habano takes place, including the much-anticipated debuts of the Montecristo Gran Reserva and the Cohiba 1966; in addition, a few [...]

Weekly News (January 31, 2011)

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Can he do it? Will he do it…? Yepp, another week, another Viaje LE announcement. Nope, I’m not kidding. It marks the seventh sixth (I really thought there were seven) announcement of a new Viaje product this month joining the: Exclusivo Chiquito, Exclusivo Shorts, WLP, Late Harvest and Trifecta. The stick? You’re going to have [...]

The winner of the five-pack of Flor de las Antillas Lanceros has been announced.