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Davidoff Year of the Horse 2026: A Cigar Worth Collecting
Davidoff Year of the Horse Limited Edition 2026 Toro Especial: A Cigar Worth Saddling Up For There are limited editions, and then there are Davidoff Zodiac releases. The two categories exist in the same premium cigar market but operate on entirely different planes of ambition, craft, and spectacle
Cohiba Talismán Goes Permanent: What This Means
The Cohiba Talismán Is Going Permanent: What It Means for the World's Most Coveted Cigar Brand There are very few cigars in the modern era that have generated the kind of sustained hysteria the Cohiba Talismán did when it first appeared on the market. Lines outside London retailers, secondary mark
Small Cigar Maker Sues Altria for $8 Billion Over Marlboro Man
David vs. Goliath in a Cloud of Smoke: A Small Cigar Maker Takes On Altria for $8 Billion It is the kind of story that would feel implausible in a Hollywood script — a one-man premium cigar operation, rooted in a personal tribute to a tobacco-farming father, now locked in a federal legal battle ag
Craig Reynolds Joins Best Cigar Prices as Industry Advisor
Craig Reynolds Brings Big-League Experience to Best Cigar Prices as New Advisor The premium cigar industry runs on institutional knowledge — the kind built over decades of navigating mergers, acquisitions, retail expansions, and the shifting tastes of millions of smokers. When someone with that de
Cuba's Cigar Crisis Is the Worst It's Been in Decades
Empty Shelves, Scarce Smoke: Cuba's Cigar Crisis Is the Worst in Decades Walk into a premium tobacco shop in London, Toronto, or Dubai right now and ask for a Cohiba Siglo VI or a Montecristo No. 2. The answer — if the retailer is being straight with you — is some version of the same story: there
Why Premium Cigars Now Cost as Much as a Car Payment
The $27 Cohiba and What It Really Means: Inside the Exploding Cost of Premium Cigars Walk into a newly opened cigar shop with a liquor license — the kind of place with leather chairs, Spanish cedar humidor walls, and soft lighting that makes every smoke feel like an occasion — and you may find you
Premium Cigar Association's Bold Global Expansion Plan
The Premium Cigar Association Is Going Global — and It's Just Getting Started For most of its nearly century-long existence, the Premium Cigar Association operated with a fundamentally domestic mindset. Founded in 1933 as the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, the organization spent decades focuse
The World's Strongest Cigar Returns in Limited Release
The World's Strongest Cigar Is Back — And This Time, You'd Better Be Ready Some cigars make a quiet debut and earn their reputation slowly, box by box, review by review, over years of humidor rotation. The World's Strongest Cigar did none of that. When it made its debut at the 2024 New England Cig
Micallef Expands Exclusive Gordo Cigars at Two Guys Cigars
Micallef Expands Its Exclusive Gordo Lineup at Two Guys Cigars with Blue, Green, and White Additions There are partnerships in the premium cigar world that make intuitive sense from the moment they're announced, and the growing collaboration between Micallef Cigars and Two Guys Cigars is shaping u
Inside the Dominican Republic's New Immersive Cigar Museum
PROCIGAR and the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration Launch a Permanent Immersive Experience Celebrating Santiago's Tobacco Heritage There is a building at the center of Santiago de los Caballeros that cigar smokers know by instinct. The Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración — a towering
