
New Habanos Specialist in Conakry
New Habanos Specialist in Conakry. Conakry is the capital of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. The local Habanos distributor, Phoenicia TAA has given the Habanos Specialist status to the retail store 68 Mark Avenue. The tobacco specialist is open since 2017. The...

Xikar releases new Xi2 cutters
Xikar releases new Xi2 cutters. Again in a collaboration with Fanatics Authentic resident artist Charlie Turano III. And no, that is not a typo and should not be Charlie Toraño, the former owner of Toraño cigars. Nightlife series The new Xikar Xi2 Nightlife Series is...

Habanos comes with Cohiba Design Edition
Habanos comes with Cohiba Design Edition. But not in their premium handmade cigar collections. The Cohiba Design Edition is all about a limited edition packaging for the machine-made Cohiba Mini and Club cigarillos. The Cohiba Mini and Club cigarillos appear in a...

New Zealand gets the first official Rocky Patel shipment
New Zealand gets the first official Rocky Patel shipment. Last year, the only importer and distributor for premium cigars from new world countries in New Zealand and Rocky Patel Cigars made an agreement. Canteros would start importing Rocky Patel directly instead of...

Hiram & Solomon Entered Apprentice Robusto
Hiram & Solomon Entered Apprentice Robusto. The mildest of all the Hiram & Soloman cigars. Their entry-level cigar so to say. And named after the first degree of the masonry to make it fit. The Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master Mason are the three...

Project Piece of Heart charity
Project Piece of Heart charity. Cigar charities, quite a good number of cigar brands run or support a charity program. And there are a few distributors that either support or started charities as well. They are giving back to the community. Some are open about it,...

Weekly news week 1 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 the subject for our hall of legends. A Polish Cuban, who fled Cuba and made a name for himself in Nicaragua and...

Van Dalen Cigars opens the 6th store
Van Dalen Cigars opens the 6th store in The Netherlands. Or the 7th if you include Cigaragua which is part of the same family. With more and more tobacconists closing their doors in The Netherlands, it is good to see that Van Dalen Cigars is building an empire and...

New World Oscuro gets a Double Corona
New World Oscuro gets a Double Corona. In the last few months, A.J. Fernandez has been adding sizes to several of his New World lines. The New World Connecticut receives a Gordo and a Churchill. The New World Oscuro sees the previous TAA exclusive Redondo become a...

Alma Fuerte Colorado Claro ready for a worldwide release
Alma Fuerte Colorado Claro ready for a worldwide release. The acclaimed Plasencia Alma Fuerte Sixto I Hexagon is the world's only cigar with has 6 sides. And from the day it was released, it is a big success. Now there is a line extension. The same size and shape but...

Dayana Tobacco opens a second location in Jakarta
Dayana Tobacco opens a second location in Jakarta. Yadie Dayana opened the doors of his second tobacco retail store and lounge in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta earlier this week. The new store is located in a hotel, which is not uncommon for cigar shops in Asia....

Casdagli Basilica C #1 Maduro
Casdagli Basilica C #1 Maduro. The only Maduro blend in the Casdagli Basilica line. Where there three sizes for the Casdagli Basilica C blend, there is only one size for the Casdagli Basilica C Maduro version. The same goes for the Casdagli Basilica A. The line is...

Michael Herklots brings back Timeless
Michael Herklots brings back Timeless and other Nat Sherman lines. But not under The Nat Sherman name. He’s also not doing it by himself but with Brendon Scott by his side. The former Nat Sherman employees start Ferio Tego, a new company and cigar brand. Herklots was...

Price quality Top 25 for 2020 the full list
Price quality Top 25 for 2020. In 2020, Ministry of Cigars did reviews on 111 cigars. Cigars from six different countries. Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Nicaragua. The majority of the cigars came from Nicaragua, 54 to be precise. The Dominican...

Stogie Roads and Tabacalera Kafie part ways
Stogie Roads and Tabacalera Kafie part ways. Kerr Viajante, owner and founder of Stogie Roads Cigars has decided to move manufacturing away from Tabacalera Kafie. Since the inception of Stogie Roads Cigars, all releases came from the Honduran factory of Dr. Gaby Kafie...

Casdagli releases The Origins Exclusive Lebanon
Casdagli releases The Origins Exclusive Lebanon. It is a limited-edition exclusively for Club Mareva Beirut. The cigar celebrates the opening of the new club last month. It is also the first of a line of cigars carefully chosen and developed with the Lebanese Club...

Cigar Rights of the World
Cigar Rights of the World. First, there was Cigar Rights of America, then came Cigar Rights of Europe. And instead of a Cigar Rights of Asia, Africa, or Oceania, as the next step, there is Cigar Rights of the World. With the statement that Cigar Rights of the World is...

Price quality Top 25 for 2020 part 5
Price quality Top 25 for 2020. In 2020, Ministry of Cigars did reviews on 111 cigars. Cigars from six different countries. Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Nicaragua. The majority of the cigars came from Nicaragua, 54 to be precise. The Dominican...

Balmoral releases Añejo 29 as a limited edition
Balmoral releases Añejo 29 as a limited edition. Only 2000 boxes are available worldwide of which 200 have arrived at Dutch retailers. The boxes contain 10 cigars and the fixed retail price in The Netherlands is €135 per box. The size o the cigar is a Rothschild...

Davidoff releases Limited Winston Churchill Toro
Davidoff releases Limited Winston Churchill Toro. Next month the Swiss Oettinger Davidoff kicks off the year with not just a limited edition Winston Churchill Toro. But with limited-edition Winston Churchill accessories as well. The accessory set consists of an...