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Casa Carrillo La Historia Silk Is Back — And This Time It's Smoking for a Cause There are cigars built to sell, and there are cigars built to mean something. Casa Carrillo's La Historia Silk has always been the latter — a limited-production smoke born out of genuine conversations, deliberate craft

From the Lounge to the Factory Floor: Creekside Cigar Co. Launches Queen of the West There is a well-worn path in the premium cigar industry — one that begins behind the counter of a beloved local shop and ends, eventually, with the owner's name on a band. Creekside Cigar Co. is now walking that r

The American Cigar Market in 2026: A Plateau Hiding Serious Shifts Beneath the Surface On paper, the numbers look stable. The American premium cigar market has now strung together a half-decade of volumes that would have seemed extraordinary just a few years ago. But dig beneath the headline figur

From Firecracker to Full Line: United Cigars Turns Its Independence Smash Hit Into a Permanent Offering There are limited releases that sell out quietly, their memory fading with the smoke, and then there are limited releases that create enough noise to reshape a company's product road map entirel

Macau Carves Out a Compromise: Cigars Win Exemption From Harshest Packaging Rules in Sweeping Tobacco Law Overhaul Macau's legislative machinery has been grinding through one of its most ambitious rewrites of tobacco law in years, and when the dust settled on the cigar debate, suppliers had reason

AG Cigars Launches the Legendary Moment Series, Honoring Jamie Foxx and Ray Lewis There is a short list of cigar makers in the world whose biography reads like a screenplay, and Alejandro "Alex" González Arias sits near the top of it. The Cuban-born master roller — better known in cigar circles si

Brotherhood in a Box: Hiram & Solomon Cigars Ships the Mystic Tie and Fraternal Flame There are boutique cigar brands, and then there are cigar brands with a genuine reason to exist. Hiram & Solomon falls squarely into the latter camp. Born out of a gap that two Freemason brothers noticed

Wildfire Cigar Company's Radio Octave Is the Most Intriguing Limited Release of Summer 2026 There is a particular kind of cigar company that operates on instinct — one that moves fast, thinks sideways, and treats every release as both an artistic statement and a business experiment. Wildfire Cigar

Principle Cigars Drops a New Corona Into the Martinique Lineup — and It's Already Sold Out There's a particular kind of credibility that comes with selling out your entire first production run before most of the cigar world even knows a new vitola exists. That's exactly where Darren Cioffi and Pri

Asia's Biggest Cigar Festival Just Went Global — And American Buyers Were There There is a city in East Java, Indonesia, that cigar men are starting to pay very close attention to. It sits about 600 kilometers east of Jakarta, tucked between volcanic highlands and the Indian Ocean, and its rich vo