Blind tastings are a tricky business … it’s well known that tastes are different. That’s why we have a team of 15 to 20 testers to judge each cigar.
Honduran Cameroon
The year was 2007 and Julio Eiroa launched a special Cameroon cigar for his family’s brand, Camacho.
The rebirth of the Brazilian cigar industry
A cigar festival and investment in quality pointed the industry in a new direction.
Condega Available in Poland
Condega Cigars is off to stores in Poland. The company has entered into a partnership with Cigar Koneser, a cigar importer and distributor in Poland.
Davidoff: Beat Hauenstein unites the best of two worlds
In a virtual but no less personal interview, Cigar Journal spoke to Beat Hauenstein, CEO of Oettinger Davidoff, on the status QUO of the family company. Despite the atmosphere of the crisis, the passionate skydiver ventured a look into the future. Because, if there is anyone who has learned to deal with difficult situations on the fly, it is the 52-year-old Swiss national.
Cohiba: The birth of a myth
On a beautiful February morning in Havana while smoking a good cigar, I happened to meet a friend from Italy. After a while, he asked me whether I wanted to personally meet Eduardo Rivera Irizarri, a man who is inextricably connected with the Cuban cigar.
Studying pays off
The COVID-19 crisis has brought a host of different challenges to us serious cigar smokers around the world. From buying online or curbside, to having limited space to smoke and perhaps too much time on our hands. As a countermeasure to the situation, I decided to embark on a mission to explore the two most widely known online cigar certifications and see what they were all about.
Jonathan Drew: “We like to surprise”
Jonathan Drew has been at home in the cigar industry for almost 25 years. But JD, as he is known on the scene, has not made it comfortable for himself. The public tries to capture him using terms like “Disruptor”, “Tsunami” or “Provocateur”. All this is true, but – as it happens so often – is only a partial aspect of a great personality who has revolutionized the cigar scene.
Manny Iriarte launches Fuente The OpusX Society
After almost 14 years of leading the industry in marketing strategy, branding, and fostering collaborations with the biggest names in the tobacco industry, Manny Iriarte has officially opened his creative studio in Miami, FL titled Manny Iriarte Enterprises.
Diplomatic Cohiba Humidors
These humidors reserved for diplomats do not appear in any official catalogs. However, their history has been able to be reconstructed with the help of collectors, and experts on Cuba’s cigar history.
Cigar Smoking World Championship launches News Portal
After establishing an International Judge Association, the Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) launched a news portal for the slowest race on earth.
The other dominican tobacco
In the past five years, innovation efforts on the part of manufacturers have led to the development of products with “other” tobaccos: Fire-cured, Latakia, Fuma em Corda … The other dominican tobacco is the Andullo.