That luxury belongs to the savoir vivre of the Côte D’Azur, tobacco stores like to demonstrate with the Cohiba Behike 56. Here, the Habanos star brand goes to a clientele that likes to spend its nights in casinos.
Current Issue
Reports and travelogues, interviews and insider knowledge, along with many other stories, await you in the first Cigar Journal issue of 2026. Below you’ll get a little taste of more stories that will enrich your summer feeling with many good cigars. Once again, you can listen to audio files of four stories from this issue...
Contributors
The world of the cigar is not only special but also impressively complex. Even after years of engaging with issues on the manufacturing of cigars, the culture and industry, passionados find that new subject areas and information continually come up. Our correspondents have an eye on the international industry and are considered the most...
About Cigar Journal
For over 20 years, Cigar Journal has been dedicated to covering all angles of the cigar world and bringing together the global community of cigar smokers. Our international writers and industry insiders offer up-close impressions from the unique and complex world of cigars, travel to cigar-producing countries, and interview industry power players from tobacco farmers...
Denmark: A Tobacco Nation in the Back Rooms
The scene is small and everyone knows everyone, but signs of a trend reversal are there. There are in fact individual, young, cigar-smoking Danes around – a harbinger that Danish cigar culture is slowly gaining momentum again.
Puerto Rico: World Capital of Rum
For epicureans, Puerto Rico is one of the trendy hot spots in the Caribbean. That about 50 years ago the legendary piña colada was invented there, is no coincidence. The puertorriqueños, as the locals call themselves, are a highly creative, multicultural folk and love cigars.
Cigar Family Charitable Foundation: Changing Lives
The vision of Carlos Fuente Jr., Eric Newman and David Luther started with an elementary school. A year later, the medical centre was built, and since then, it has evolved into a project that reaches out to 20 communities with a total of 237,000 people. Education has given the whole community a sense of hope and new meaning to life.
Perfect Start: Jim Beam Signature Craft
Jim Beam can also be different. The aromas of roasted nuts, oak, prunes and sponge cake give you a taste for more. The light fruitiness with a touch of burnt almonds is the perfect accompaniment to a Davidoff Miniature Gold Edition.
Dominican Republic: Cigars Make an Impact
How important is the cigar industry for a country like the Dominican Republic? Hendrik Kelner at Davidoff points to the concentration of cigar related businesses in the city of Santiago as one of the main reasons for the Dominican success.
Royal Agio Cigars – Europe’s Largest Cigar Factory
In the last two years, Royal Agio Cigars has created two top cigars in a row. Who is behind the name, which, in the first instance, one associates with cigarillos, shortfillers and brands like Mehari’s, Panter and Biddies?
One Day in the Life of Ramón Emilio Cruz
Ramón Emilio Cruz is proud of his family’s four-generation history in the cigar industry – and on the weekends, away from work, he enjoys a childhood hobby: cock fighting.
Relaunched: James E. Pepper 1776 Rye
America's oldest whiskey brand has been relaunched and stands out with a great representative of the rye category. Overall, this suggests more an aperitif for the early evening, but in combination with an Oliva G Perfecto, there is no objection to brunch, either.
