Weekly News (November 8, 2010)

The big news this week, the story I broke on Thursday, Sam Leccia will be leaving Oliva Cigar Co. at the end of this year. This comes shortly after the partial unveiling of Studio Tobac, the arm of Oliva who will subsume the Cain and NUb brands. Sam doesn’t own any part of either brand, [...]

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this past week. The Rocky Patel Valedor which is a B&M only stick that was made for the NRA also hit stores. A special Opus X Scorpion was released at Casa [...]

Weekly News (October 25, 2010)

First was news that a new 6 x 60 would come to the Master Line. In addition, Toraño supported the Gala for Hope, for Hope Haiti: TORAÑO FAMILY CIGARS SUPPORTS THE ANNUAL GALA FOR HOPE BENEFITTING MISSION OF HOPE HAITI (Miami, FL) October 18, 2010— Toraño Family Cigars was proud to support the annual Gala [...]

Weekly News (October 18, 2010)

For the first time in a while, a fairly quiet news day… Add Graycliff to the list of cigar manufacturers who are now branding watches. The Zino brand previewed its newest creation, the Zino Chateau. Hurricane Paula headed towards Cuba earlier this week. Fortunately it seemed to only temporarily knock out power. In other Cuban [...]

Weekly News (October 4, 2010)

This past week has been nothing but crazy. Only a few hours after posting the news for the week of September 28th, Dion Giolito of Illusione dropped a bomb: the Nosotros partnership with Drew Estate is over. Pete Johnson launched his new website and gave details on the newest edition of the Monster Series, The [...]

Weekly News (July 5, 2010)

The Thompson Cigar Factory in Bartow was saved from its death. The House Committee on Agriculture voted (25-20) to move forward with plans to remove travel restrictions to everyone’s favorite communist Caribbean island. Tom Johansmeyer, whom also writes for Cigar Reader and Luxist, wrote an interesting piece for Huffington Post on cigar marketing. My Father [...]