At the XIV Festival del Habano, Habanos S.A. honored the “520th anniversary of tobacco discovery.” Amongst the celebration was a preview of the annual Edición Limitada releases, including the Montecristo 520, a 6 1/8 x 55 Double Robusto. In 2000, Habanos S.A. announced the first of the Edición Limitada releases. The cigars are limited releases rolled [...]

On Monday, Rocky Patel Cigar Company announced the addition of a 6 x 60 vitola to their Fifteenth Anniversary line. The new cigar was announced via the company’s Facebook page and is currently available to retailers. The 6 x 60 is the first vitola addition to the Rocky Patel Fifteenth Anniversary line since its debut [...]

A.J. Fernandez announced a new addition to their portfolio via a Facebook post late Monday night, as they posted an image of the band for a new cigar called the Raca Taca. Information about the new cigar has been limited, though several comments posted by the company provide a bit of insight. The name refers [...]

Cuba has become the latest country to take issue with Australia’s stringent tobacco rules regarding packaging and has filed a formal objection with the World Trade Organization to show their displeasure. The objection, filed with the WTO Secretariat on May 3, requests consultations with Australia on the Australian Tobacco Plain Packaging Act of 2011 that regulates [...]

C.Gars Ltd. of London has announced the date of their next auction of vintage, limited edition and mature cigars. The summer cigar auction will be held on Monday, June 10 at the Boisdale Canary Wharf in London. The event will start at 6 pm with the auction commencing at 7 pm. During the event, guests [...]

Most of Pete Johnson’s limited editions come with fanfare, but every once in a while the Tatuaje faithful seems to miss one. Such was the case with the 2007 release of the Cabaiguan WCD 120 for Washington D.C.-based W. Curtis Draper’s 120th anniversary. History almost repeated itself again five years later when the cigar was [...]

In August of 2012, Pinar del Rio debuted a new vitola in the Reserva Superior line at the IPCPR show in Orlando, Fla., a 6 x 66 Salomon that would be limited to 1,000 boxes of 10 with each cigar in its own coffins. The defining characteristic of the Reserva Superior blend is that made up of [...]

In January of 2013, Villiger Cigars announced they would be hosting various Discovery Tour events in order to introduce their cigars to smokers around the country. Along with the normal specials, the events would also feature a sampler of unreleased cigars that would be included with box purchases. We broke the news with the information [...]

Multiple retailers have confirmed to halfwheel they have received invoices for Viaje’s next shipment which includes Exclusivo Super Lance and White Label Project and Zombie versions of Super Shot. Historically, Viaje’s issuing of invoices means the products have begun shipping. We broke the news on Super Lance last year when Andre Farkas was attending events [...]

Since the launch of RoMaCraft Tobac in January 2012, the company has quickly expanded into three full lines of cigars, each of which contain a number of event-only, limited availability cigars. The RoMaCraft Tobac website offers a good amount of detail about the Aquitaine, noting that the filler leaf comes from three separate areas of [...]

May 3, 2013 (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) — Santo Domingo is the busiest cigar capital in the world. After 3 years in the making comes along a ‘star cigar’ created for the cigar aficionado and enthusiast. Cigars are ranked and graded with the attempt of achieving the highest score in points. The (GPA) Grade Point [...]

There are a lot of best of/top cigars lists that appear at the end and beginning of each calendar year, I’d like to think one serves as a model a bit more than any other, The Consensus. It’s a list we’ve curated for the past two years, but an idea tried hundreds of times over in [...]