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Erik Espinosa Is Building a Dominican Factory — and Guy Fieri Is Along for the Ride When Erik Espinosa dropped the bombshell at his 2025 La Zona Palooza event that he was planting a flag in the Dominican Republic, the cigar world paid attention. A man who had spent years grinding out Nicaraguan to

Oklahoma Sooners' Historic Baseball Title Gets Officially Licensed Cigar from Bocock Brothers When the Oklahoma Sooners dismantled the North Carolina Tar Heels at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha to claim the 2026 Men's College World Series championship, the celebratory smoke had barely cleared the d

Lampert Cigars Unleashes the Baba Yaga Toro: A Limited Edition Wrapped in Myth and Mystery In the crowded landscape of boutique premium cigars, genuine intrigue is a rare commodity. Most new releases come packaged with exhaustive blend sheets, precise tasting notes, and the kind of marketing trans

Davidoff's Voyager's Selection Black Band: A World Tour in a Single Box There is a particular kind of satisfaction reserved for the man who knows how to travel well — who books the window seat not to look at clouds but to think, who treats an airport layover as an opportunity rather than a punishm

Perdomo Cigars Lights Up the Market with the New PROFLAME Lighter Line When a brand that has spent decades earning the trust of serious cigar smokers decides to throw its name behind a new piece of hardware, the industry tends to pay attention. That's exactly what happened when Perdomo Cigars step

Casa Carrillo's Pledge of Allegiance Returns for 2026 — and This Year, America's 250th Birthday Changes Everything Every July Fourth, before the first spark of a firework cuts across a dark summer sky, serious cigar smokers start looking for a smoke worthy of the occasion. For the past four years,

The Smoke Clears: Premium Cigar Imports Slide 5 Percent Through April 2026 For years, the premium handmade cigar industry rode one of the most unlikely growth waves in American consumer goods — a pandemic-era surge that turned walk-in humidors into gold mines and put cigar exports from Nicaragua,

The Smoke Signal the Global Cigar World Can't Ignore On June 23, 2026, a routine business email landed in the inboxes of cigar retailers, hotel tobacconists, and duty-free buyers from Nairobi to Riyadh to Athens. The sender was Phoenicia T.A.A. Cyprus Ltd., one of the most consequential names in t

New York's Generational Tobacco Ban Bill: What A11509 Means for Cigar Smokers and the Future of Tobacco in America A new front has opened in the long-running war on tobacco. New York State — a legislative bellwether whose policy innovations have a well-documented habit of traveling south, north, a

La Flor Dominicana's $20,000 Espejo de Litto Humidor Is the Most Personal Project the Brand Has Ever Built In the world of premium cigars, the phrase "limited edition" gets thrown around so freely it has nearly lost its meaning. Brands release limited runs of thousands of boxes, stamp them with co