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Drew Diplomat Event Series kicks off with the Liga Privada Unico Serie Velvet Rat and at a Drew Diplomat Retailer near you! Miami, FL – Drew Estate announced today the launch of the Drew Diplomat Event Series, an event tour that makes stops across the United States at Drew Diplomat Retailers. The final stop of this tour will take place on August 6, 2016 at the second annual Connecticut Barn Smoker, held on the same Connecticut River Valley farm that produces the wrapper for Drew Estate’s Liga Privada No. 9 and Liga Privada T52 cigars. The Liga Privada Unico Serie Velvet Rat is presented in a 6 ¼ x 46 Lonsdale vitola, featuring the iconic fan tail featured on many Unico Serie Cigars. The cigar features a Connecticut Broadleaf “High” Mediums Wrapper, with a Plantation Sungrown Brazilian Mata Fina Binder and filler leaves from Nicaragua and Honduras. In total, 5,000 Velvet Rats were produced in January 2015, and have since been at La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate aging in the

Cusano Cigars launches new competitively priced bundle selection, adds full-flavored Nicaraguan blend to lineup. (Pinellas Park, FL – June 2016) To the excitement of aficionados who seek excellent quality at everyday value prices, a new Cusano bundle selection is now available in three outstanding blends, including a new full-flavored Nicaraguan taste offering. The popular Cusano M1 and P1 lines will carryover, but have been repackaged and converted to 16-count bundles units. Manufactured at AgroIndustrias Laepe in Honduras, the Cusano bundle selection lines deliver taste and value that are sure to get your attention. All Cusano bundle selection blends are offered in three top-selling formats: Robusto (5 x 50), Churchill (7 x 48) and Gordo (6 x 60). With MSRP’s starting at $1.99 per cigar, the trio of new Cusano bundles are competitively priced without sacrificing consistency, quality, or flavor. N1 NICARAGUA BUNDLES Cigar Information Wrapper: Sumatra Binder:  Suma

Davidoff Cigars to honor its Appointed Merchants with the Golden Band Awards in Las Vegas, NV  Ultra-Premium Cigar Brand will introduce a new award and honor top merchants     PINELLAS PARK, FL, JUNE 27, 2015 — Davidoff, the leading luxury premium cigar brand, announces the Fifth Annual Davidoff Golden Band Awards Show nominees, honoring those Appointed Merchants who best embody the Davidoff standard of excellence. The Fifth Annual Awards show will be part of an exclusive Davidoff event on July 26th at IPCPR in Las Vegas, NV.  This year, Davidoff will introduce a new category, “Canadian Depositaire of the Year“, which will honor the Canadian Appointed Merchant with the highest sales & support of all of the Davidoff of Geneva products. In conjunction with the announcement, the Golden Band Awards website has been revamped featuring this year’s nominees.    “The Davidoff Golden Band Awards provide us with an opportunity to recognize our Appointed Merchant network

On the heels of the successful Cusano Dominican range, Oettinger Davidoff launches the new Cusano Nicaragua Estelí line. (Basel, Switzerland – June 2016)  To delight cigar lovers who are looking for fine quality cigars at great value, Cusano is expanding its premium range with the addition of a new medium-to-full body Nicaragua Estelí line. Blended with fine Nicaraguan and Dominican filler tobaccos and refined with a Negro San Andrés wrapper from Mexico, this line is designed for aficionados seeking the daily pleasure of a great-tasting cigar to enjoy calmly at their leisure or share with friends.   Charles Awad, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Innovation at Oettinger Davidoff AG, said: “We continue to look for ways to broaden our portfolio to meet key aficionado taste preferences and be the indispensable business partner to retailers worldwide. The new Nicaragua Estelí range will spice up the Cusano offering by bringing a stronger, fuller bodied multi-origin ble

Black is the new Joya! The Joya family is proud to present Joya Black, a follow up to the very well-received Joya Red launched in 2014. is new blend is a continuation of efforts from the factory to introduce contemporary, innovative products to the marketplace. Th e JOYA line changed the way smokers enjoyed Nicaraguan cigars with the introduction of Joya Red, a medium bodied, full avor smoke specially designed and blended for the modern smoker. e new Joya Black follows in these footsteps and takes the experience up a notch by incorporating a dark Mexican wrapper and Nicaraguan llers. Modern in Spirit, fuller in Flavor and Stronger in Attitude, this cigar provides a complex smoke, perfect for those who want more. Both Joya Red and Joya Black were engineered by the youngest executive team in the industry, along with the most senior Master Blenders of Nicaragua. Together they created JOYA, a line-up of cigars that represents the more approachable and adventurous side o

Non-Cuban Cigars that Highlight Quality and Consistency are in Big Demand Fort Lauderdale, FL- When it comes to super premium luxury brands and prestigious companies, names like Louis Vuitton, Moet Hennessey, Patek Philippe, Chanel and Rolls Royce get bandied about, but when the conversation in Asia turns to cigars, there's only one name spoken. Gurkha! "We have considered entering the Asian markets for some time now and finally took the plunge. Many wealthy Asians know a good smoke so naturally they gravitate towards our cigars and we have seen a tremendous surge in sales," said Kaizad Hansotia, Founder and CEO of Gurkha Cigars, "Additionally, since the Asian culture is all about honoring others by bestowing expensive luxury gifts on those they hold in high esteem, Gurkha Cigars have become a favorite super-premium gift given by high-powered Asian businessmen." Gurkha is focused on expanding into Asia and has underscored its commitment to the r

Photo: Jason Reznik Javier Estades, and Ryan Leeds CASA DE MONTECRISTO BY PRIME CIGAR & WHISKEY BAR OPENS One-of-a kind venue opened its doors in the epicenter of Miami’s Downtown Brickell area. MIAMI – Casa De Montecristo by Prime Cigar & Whiskey Bar   in Brickell-Miami officially opens its doors to the public after an invitation-only “Gold” carpet event attended by VIPs, city officials and local celebrities.  Prime Cigar’s first location in Boca Raton, set them apart as the premier cigar bar in South Florida. Prime Cigar is partnering with Tabacalera USA to unveil a one of kind cigar and whisky lounge. The new establishment looks to thrive in the heart of Miami’s business district, at Brickell’s newly built 1100 Millecento residential tower. Prime Cigar’s founders, Jason Reznik and Ryan Leeds, celebrated in grand style, as they treated over 300 event guests, to an evening of live music, cocktails, catered food, and a variety of select Montecristo ci

The Davidoff Art Initiative presents the inaugural Art in Lounges program featuring Dominican artist Fausto Ortiz in collaboration with Centro de la Imagen de Santo Domingo #DavidoffArts Basel, Switzerland, June 13, 2016  – The Davidoff Art Initiative is pleased to announce that Dominican artist Fausto Ortiz has been selected as the inaugural artist to be featured in the Davidoff Lounges as part of the Art in Lounges program. This program builds on Davidoff’s long-term commitment to bring recognition and greater international visibility to art and artists of the Caribbean region – a goal already pursued by the Davidoff Art Initiative’s Residencies, Grants, Dialogues, and Limited Art Editions. With this commitment in mind, the Davidoff Art Initiative, in association with Centro de la Imagen de Santo Domingo – the leading organization focusing on photography in the Dominican Republic – will present works by Fausto Ortiz in Davidoff lounges worldwide. Ortiz’s work will be o

Thursday, June 9, 2016 — Miami, FL – Drew Estate announced today that they would be releasing a new blend within their Herrera Estelí line. The new cigar will be available exclusively for Small Batch Cigar, also known as Maxamar Ultimate Cigars. The new Herrera Estelí Inktome will be presented in a 6 x 46 box-pressed Corona Gorda vitola and will be packaged in 10-count boxes. The blend showcases extensively aged tobaccos from the Estelí and Jalapa growing regions of Nicaragua, with a spicy Honduran Binder and a higher priming Ecuadorian Habano Wrapper than the core Herrera Estelí line. The result is a darker, richer wrapper. The MSRP will be $12.00, and the cigars will be released at tonight’s event at Maxamar Ultimate Cigars with Willy Herrera present. When asked about the new cigar, Drew Estate Master Blender Willy Herrera stated that, “I like to read cigar forums and blogs for inspiration on new sizes. Adjusting blends based on new sizes is something that I enjoy doin

GURKHA CIGARS EXPANDS GLOBALLY SETTING NEW STANDARD IN LUXURY Opens First High-End Cigar Lounge in India Fort Lauderdale, FL – June 7, 2016 - Once again, Gurkha Cigar raises the bar in the super premium luxury cigar market by opening the first ultra-exclusive cigar lounge in India. The elegant Cigar Lounge at Artisan opened to stellar reviews inside the stylish Hotel Sofitel Mumbai BKC in the heart of Mumbai’s financial business district’s Bandra Kurla complex. The grand opening was hosted by Anish Trivedi, a prominent Indian radio and theatre personality as well as a cigar enthusiast himself in conjunction with Biswajit Chakraborty, general manager of Hotel Sofitel Mumbai BKC, and Danny Carroll, Brand Ambassador India for Gurkha Cigars. More than 300 guests that included heads of diplomatic missions, private equity fund managers and famous Mumbai personalities were treated to some of the finest Gurkha cigars in the world along with complementary glasses of Single Malt

HOLLYWOOD, FL -- Maya Selva Cigars , U.S., is proud to announce that we will be adding a "prensado" vitola to our Flor de Selva Maduro collection.  Our new Grand Pressé will be a box-pressed 6" x ø56 cigar, and will stay true to the collection's maduro blend.  The cigar will be officially released at this year's IPCPR trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in late July, 2016.  Initially, it will only be available in the United States market.  The Grand Pressé features a naturally-fermented Honduran Habano wrapper, Brazilian Mata Fina binder, as well as Honduran fillers, providing a well-balanced, medium- to fuller-bodied cigar.  Flor de Selva Maduros have received various accolades in recent years, and have become fast favorites amongst maduro cigar connoisseurs.  The new Grand Pressé is presented at $11.75 MSRP and will come in elegant cedar ten-count boxes. "After assessing our portfolio, and analyzing the field as to what niche we had yet to cov

Miami, FL – Today , Drew Estate announced the launch of their long awaited Drew Diplomat app, which is now available in the App Store for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod Touch® and on Google Play™ for Android™. With the Drew Diplomat app, Drew Estate intends to change the cigar industry yet again. Drew Estate has worked diligently to develop an industry-leading app that allows users to easily keep up with daily breaking news from Drew Estate, earn points for chances to win one-of-a-kind pieces of art from Subculture Studios, and invite friends to experience the “Rebirth of Cigars”®. The app has been in development for approximately two years and is completely custom, built from scratch, with every functionality considered as part of the design process to ensure the best user experience possible. Download the app on either Apple iOS or Android by clicking this link: https://bnc.lt/m/xo5nWDcJyo To view a video featuring Jonathan Drew talking about the app, visit this lin

TAMPA, FL (Wednesday, June 1st, 2016) –– Camacho, the world’s leading brand of bold cigars, is proud to announce the new 2016 Camacho Liberty Series, the 14th annual limited edition released in celebration of the 4th of July.  This year’s Camacho Liberty cigar is a rich and powerful blend featuring tobaccos from five different origins, skillfully rolled in a proprietary 11/18 figurado format (48 x 54 x 48 x 6) and medium-to-full in intensity. As with each of the Liberty releases, the recipe takes inspiration from one of the best concept blends of the year developed by our master builders. Utilizing rare, hand-selected tobaccos not available in sufficient quantities for full production, the Camacho Liberty Series blend is unique in the sense it can never be replicated again.   At the core of 2016’s edition are two high-octane Ligero tobaccos from Mexico and Nicaragua, making up over half of the tri-country filler blend. Combined with two Seco tobaccos from Nicaragua and the

Davidoff Cigars introduces cigars and cigarillos to its Brazilian blended Escurio Line, offering aficionados new occasions in which to enjoy a taste adventure inspired by a night in Rio.  Basel, May 2016. Davidoff will be introducing globally new formats to its successful Escurio range starting as of June 2016. New Escurio cigars include a Corona Gorda and Gran Perfecto, along with Primeros and Mini Cigarillos for those occasions where one is short on time.  “Sweet meets spice in this broader selection of Brazilian inspired Escurio cigars and shorter format Primeros and Cigarillos. Rich aromas will take you on a taste adventure full of unexpected twists and turns inspired by a night in Rio. Each format will be beating at its own tempo to suit the rhythm of life even when time is a luxury: Time Beautifully Filled with Rhythm, Intrigue and Originality,” explains Charles Awad, Senior Vice President Global Marketing & Innovation at Oettinger Davidoff AG.  Th