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News: Texas Cigar Festival Gets Exclusive La Flor Dominicana

La Flor Dominicana brought an exclusive cigar to this year’s Texas Cigar Festival. The annual event hosted by Houston, Tex.-based retailer  Serious Cigars, most recently held April 20, gives bags of cigars to attendees, but also invites manufacturers and consumers to take place in special pricing. This year, La Flor added something special, a box-pressed [...]

Press Release: 2013 La Flor Dominicana TAA Exclusive Cigar

April 24, 2013 — La Flor Dominicana is proud to announce the release of the 2013 Exclusive TAA Cigar, available only to those TAA members that attended this year’s conference in Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. This year’s cigar is the Double Press Maduro. TAA members were treated to a pre release sample [...]

News: La Flor Dominicana Changes Carajos Packaging

La Flor Dominicana’s smallest cigar is seeing a slight packaging change. The La Flor Dominicana Carajos, a 4 x 34 Petit, is seeing its packaging reduced to boxes of five instead of the six-cigar format the cigar is currently offered. The new suggested retail pricing is $15.60 as opposed to the $18.00  at which the [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Mystery

Last month, La Flor Dominicana announced a new cigar called the “Mystery Cigar” that would be given out and sold exclusively at specific events in 2013. Details on the blend are being purposely kept secret, as are total production numbers and even if it will be released again in the future. The press release had [...]

Press Release: La Flor Dominicana Announces Mystery Cigar

February 11, 2013 (Coral Gables, Fla.) — La Flor Dominicana is proud to unveil its new event program for 2013. Known unofficially as the “Mystery Event,” it centers on an unreleased cigar called the “Mystery Cigar.” The Mystery Cigar is a 6 ½ x 44 (Lonsdale) Maduro. This cigar will only be seen at select [...]

News: La Flor Dominicana Launching Mystery Cigar for Events

La Flor Dominicana will be debuting a new event-only “mystery cigar” this Friday at W. Curtis Draper’s in Washington, D.C. that will be part of a year-long series of events around the country. The cigar is a 6 1/2 x 44 Lonsdale, but the blend hasn’t been released at this time. A person familiar with [...]

Weekly News (February 4, 2013)

 Editor’s Note: Alas, the second edition of The Newsletter is out and finally the Weekly News. It’s going to be a busy week at halfwheel inside and outside and the cigar industry is finally getting into some strides. Of interesting notes, lots of exclusive cigars seem to be heading to the March DC Tweetup. Details [...]

News: The Pipe & Pint Gets LFD Store Exclusive for 15th Anniversary

The Pipe & Pint in Greensboro, NC has announced the arrival of a limited production store exclusive created by Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana. Dubbed simply “The Pipe & Pint Anniversary,” the cigar is limited to a total production of 2,000 sticks, divided into 200 boxes of 10 cigars. The cigar commemorates the store’s [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Meaner Digger

Taking things to ever bigger and longer extremes in the cigar world, the La Flor Dominicana Meaner Digger was created as a store exclusive for Tobacco Haven in Brookline, NH, who held an “end of the world” release party on December 21, 2012. News of this new cigar came out just after Thanksgiving, just shy of [...]

Weekly News (November 26, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Slow week on halfwheel, blame turkey, family and illness. In the mean time, our holiday contest has been announced, it’s big and might even tempt me to use Facebook. December is around the corner, that means cigar of the year season begins. Lots of fun. La Flor Dominicana Mean Digger — Details here. [...]