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Weekly news week 34 2021. Mold or plume, it is a question and a discussion that never seems to end. Every week someone in one of the many Facebook cigar...
Published September 2021
Weekly news week 33 2021. Candela was once a very popular wrapper, the most popular wrapper in the world. Now it’s a gimmick to most and only a few brands...
Published August 2021
Weekly news week 32 2021. The Spanish tobacco family Zapata owns Gesinta. Gesinta imports and distributes all kinds of tobacco products and accessories. The premium cigars division is called La...
Published August 2021
Weekly news week 31 2021. For the last months, every first Sunday of the month is dedicated to a person who earned his accolades in the cigar industry. From tobacco...
Published August 2021
Weekly news week 30 2021. A few weeks ago, us and L’Amateur de Cigare both published articles about shortages of Cuban cigars. This after alarming reports from retailers, who are...
Published July 2021
Weekly news week 29 2021. Most of the famous Cuban brands have counterparts from the New World. These counterparts are only for sale in the United States, where the Cuban...
Published July 2021
Weekly news week 28 2021. The week of the PCA Convention & Trade Show. We would have loved to be there, but a combination of time, distance, travel restrictions, quarantine,...
Published July 2021
Weekly news week 27 2021. Another busy week, with plenty of press releases with upcoming cigars for the PCA Convention & Trade show. The show starts today, but due to...
Published July 2021
Weekly news week 26 2021. And what a week it was. The servers are overheating with all the new cigars that are announced ahead of the PCA Convention & Trade...
Published July 2021
Weekly news week 25 2021. As with any consumer product, marketing can play a big part in the success of a brand or line. And that’s the reason why some...
Published June 2021
Weekly news week 24 2021. The second Sunday of the month is about cigar charities and fundraisers. This time it’s a fundraiser for mental health that uses a monthly cigar...
Published June 2021
Weekly news week 23 2021. The first Sunday of each month is dedicated to a legendary man or woman in the cigar industry. And this time, it is not about...
Published June 2021
Weekly news week 22 2021. The biggest multi-venue cigar event in the world is the Cigar Smoking World Championship. The finale is always in Split, Croatia but the qualifiers take...
Published June 2021
Weekly news week 21 2021. The week started with a recap of the Light ‘em Up Lounge recap. During the Light Em Up Lounge The Cuban Controversy episode, we were...
Published May 2021
Weekly news week 20 2021. On Sunday we always publish a special, interview, or editorial. This week, it was a challenge. A challenge for cigar manufacturers. In the old days,...
Published May 2021
Weekly news week 18 2021. Each first Sunday of the month, we pays tribute to a legendary figure in the cigar industry. And this month it was nobody other than...
Published May 2021
Weekly news week 17 2021. Smokers of premium handmade cigars often don’t know, or forget, that our part of the cigar industry is only a small part. The most exciting...
Published May 2021
Weekly news week 15 2021. For several months now we use the first Sunday of the month to publish a special about a cigar industry legend. The second Sunday of...
Published April 2021
Weekly news week 14 2021. A new month, so a new episode of our series on legends of the cigar industry. Each first Sunday of the month we publish an...
Published April 2021
Weekly news week 13 2021. When you think of tobacco fields, you automatically think of Latin America. We all know the pictures of seas of green tobacco plants growing in...
Published April 2021
Weekly news week 12 2021. Due to sad family circumstances, I had to fly from my slice of heaven in Asia to Europe. Where covid-19 is no real concern in...
Published March 2021
Weekly news week 11 2021. In the last few months, we are putting a spotlight on cigar-related charities. Every second Sunday of the month, we pick one charity to shine...
Published March 2021
Weekly news week 10 2021. For the last few months, we have dedicated the first Sunday of each month to write about the legends of the cigar industry. The people...
Published March 2021
Weekly news week 9 2021. Habanos has several concepts. Some of the concepts, such as Habanos Specialist and La Casa del Habano are well known. Others are lesser-known. So we...
Published March 2021
Weekly news week 8 2021. Facebook is cracking down on tobacco. Sales are no longer allowed. Groups are taken offline. And Facebook jail is overpopulated for petty reasons. And all...
Published February 2021
Weekly news week 7 2021. And what a week it was. Plenty of news this week. New cigars, aged cigars, new names for current products, new packaging, cigars returning to...
Published February 2021
Weekly news week 6 2021. We shine a light on people that made the cigar industry what it is today. People that are legends within the industry. But some of...
Published February 2021
Weekly news week 5 2021. We applaud cigar companies that take their responsibility. That’s why we have been writing about cigar charities, with more episodes to come. But taking responsibility...
Published February 2021
Weekly news week 4 2021. Since the start, several reviews of the HENK Maori cigars have been done. And in the last year, even more articles about the HENK cigar...
Published January 2021
Weekly news week 3 2021. China is producing everything. From the garlic that most of us eat to the cellphones that most of us use. If you look around you,...
Published January 2021
Weekly news week 2 2021. In 2021 we are continuing to shine a light on more beautiful charity from the cigar community. In the last few months, we wrote about...
Published January 2021
Weekly news week 1 2021. And what better way to kick off the year with a tribute to another cigar industry legend? This time we selected Don Kiki Berger as...
Published January 2021
Weekly news week 53 2020. There are many Facebook groups about cigars. And in almost every group, there are questions with a negative undertone. Instead of asking for good cigars,...
Published January 2021
Weekly news week 52 2020. Over the course of the last few weeks, we have written several articles on counterfeit Cuban cigars. On how to spot them. Signs to see...
Published December 2020
Weekly news week 51 2020. And it was time for our monthly spotlight on charity again. This time we wrote about a Honduran charity, the CLE Foundation from Christian Eiroa....
Published December 2020
Weekly news week 50 2020. In the last few months, We shine a light on cigar industry legends. People who have or had a huge impact on the cigar Industry....
Published December 2020
