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News: Nat Sherman Adding New 1930 Line

Nat Sherman will be adding a new line this summer called the 1930, with plans to have it available before the IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in early July. Michael Herklots, the Executive Director Retail and Brand Development for Nat Sherman, shared the announcement in an exclusive to halfwheel during the Tobacco Plus Expo in Las [...]

News: Quesada Makes 80th Anniversary Exclusive for Canada’s House of Horvath

Quesada has a new cigar exclusive to the Canadian market. Manuel Quesada’s company has been tasked with making an 80th anniversary cigar for Canadian distributor House of Horvath. Quesada’s relationship with the distribution goes back to 1980, when he and Joseph E. Horvath began their friendship. In June, two different cigars will debut in Canada [...]

Review: Casa Magna Domus Magnus Centuriones

In October of last year, Terrence Reilly announced that SAG Imports would be extending its popular Casa Magna Domus Magnus Limitada line to include three new limited sizes. Originally thought as a January release, due to delays and backorders on the original two sizes, the new sizes of Domus Magnus shipped from SAG Imports on [...]

News: Daniel Marshall Set to Release Cigar in Gold

Famed humidor maker Daniel Marshall is set to release a special version of his DM2 Gold line, wrapped in gold. Next week, Marshall will begin shipping a limited edition humidor containing five 6 1/4 x 54 Torpedos wrapped in gold  in honor of his company’s 30th anniversary. As far as the cigar goes, it’s a [...]

News: Three New Sizes of Domus Magnus Slated for Spring

Yesterday morning, SAG Imports informed retailers they would be releasing three new sizes of the popular Casa Magna Domus Magnus Limitada. “We had enough to make about 30,000 new cigars,” said Terrence Reilly of SAG Imports, the distribution arm of the Quesada family who owns the Casa Magna brand, “so we decided to do three [...]

Review: Quesada q d’etat Molotov

In December of 2011, SAG Imports/Quesada announced a new project that would be the company’s first cigar solely created at Quesada’s new factory and an effort to raise awareness for cigar rights. Manuel “Manolo” Quesada’s company would create the q d’etat line as a way to protest increased restrictions on cigar smoking and higher taxes [...]

The Consensus: 2011 Awards

For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]

Review: Quesada Oktoberfest The Über (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar that I have been very much anticipating, the Quesada Oktoberfest Über! We reviewed the wonderful Quesada Selección España Corona, the España Short Robusto and the new Casa Magna Dominus a few weeks ago and frankly all three completely knocked our socks off, this has given me [...]

IPCPR 2011: Quesada

I saw Terence Reilly pretty early into my stay into Vegas. I had a good conversation with one of the key players at Quesada/MATASA/SAG Imports, about a variety of things, but particularly about the present and future of the company his uncle, Manuel “Manolo” Quesada, sits at the helm of. The IPCPR show was relatively [...]

Review: Casa Magna Domus Magnus Optimus (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2008, Cigar Aficionado shocked the cigar world (and yes, I think that “Shocked” is the appropriate term) by naming the newish released Casa Magna as the #1 Cigar of the Year in their ratings. The Casa Magna, a cigar made by Nestor Plasencia for the Quesada family, [...]