Javier Blanco Urgoiti
In 1998, Spanish journalist Javier Blanco Urgoiti accepted a job at a small publishing house, primarily focused on the domestic tobacco market. It was meant to be temporary, while looking for something more interesting. Twenty-seven years later, he is fully dedicated to tobacco, a world that keeps his curiosity alive. Since 2016, based in Madrid, he has been a proud member of the Cigar Journal team.
Articles by Javier Blanco Urgoiti
Big Party: Vegafina Momentum
VegaFina started a slow-motion process or rebranding in 2019, with the release of its most premium series: VegaFina 1998.
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Procigar – Day 5 – A New Beginning
One of the great virtues of Procigar is its purely family essence. The festival has become very large over the years. There are now twelve members and, even at the gala dinner at the Spanish Center in Santiago, the official announcement was made of the entry of two new passive partners to Procigar:
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Procigar Day 4 – Twenty Miles Away
The surprising thing about this year’s Procigar 2025 was the full house at the blending seminar. It’s not the norm.
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Procigar Humidor Auction: Total Gain: USD 435,000.00
The Humidor Auction is an annual highlight of the Procigar Festival Gala Night.
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Procigar Day 3 | Together again
The welcome dinner. It was held this year in the Central Park of Santiago de los Caballeros and was, as always, crowded. So many people, from forty countries around the world, all different, but all united by tobacco. We are a small family, no doubt about it. And in Procigar, we met again.
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Procigar Day 2 | Rice, milk and ash
A tobacco festival, like Procigar, is a showcase where manufacturers, although jealous of their production secrets, show with great transparency their processes to achieve wonderful cigars.
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Procigar Day 1 | Procigar Welcome Party
Here we go. Procigar again. The Dominican tobacco world is getting together again to celebrate one more year, and – due to the dates – , the “Great Harvest Party”. Because February is harvest time.
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Eladio Díaz LXXII Anniversary North & South Edition
Tabacalera Díaz Cabrera announces the upcoming launch of the new cigar commemorating the anniversary of its creator, Eladio Díaz, who will turn 72 in May.
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Maya Selva Cigars Premiere in Danlí, Honduras
Last night, in Danlí, Honduras, Flor de Selva presented the new Flor de Selva 30 Aniversario Salomón for the world premiere
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Chateau Diadem’s Splendor
Chateau Diadem Splendor is a robusto extra size, 140 mm x 52, created by Eladio Díaz for the brand. Like many of Eladio’s blends, the cigar has five different Dominican leaves in the filler, with a binder from Mexico and a corojo wrapper grown in the Dominican Republic.
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Big Papi and his 541 Homeruns
To push the European release of its H.O.F. brand, Tabacalera El Artista presents a very special limited edition of which only 541 boxes of 10 have been produced.
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Two Decades of Dedication
AJ Fernández celebrates its 20th anniversary at Intertabac under the slogan “Two decades of dedication”, with the presentation of their first and only limited edition: AJ Fernández 20 Aniversario.
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