The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) will host its fifth annual Distiller’s Week showcasing the world’s most popular whiskeys, tequilas, vodkas, rums and more. The week-long celebration will take place from October 30 to November 2, 2023, and will feature a variety of events, including a Kentucky bourbon tasting and educational event, tastings and bottle signings at NH Liquor & Wine Outlets and the region’s largest spirits tasting expo – the 10th Annual Distiller’s Showcase […]
This week, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) endorsed new legislation that would allow cigar bars in Wisconsin for the first time since 2009. Assembly Bill 451 removes the date, June 3, 2009, by which a “tobacco bar” had to be in business in order to operate as a bar that allows smoking. It only allows for cigars and pipes, and the establishments must have 15% of gross annual income of on-premises cigars or pipe tobacco […]
My Father Cigars celebrates a milestone with the release of the Don Pepin Garcia 20th Anniversary Limited Edition. It’s hard to believe I was in the cigar industry longer than the brand Don Pepin Garcia was around. I remember when a rep whom I believed was named Glen Gutin came into the store I was a partner in. He was pushing a cigar and said, “This guy is going to change the industry.” We smoked […]
La Aurora has announced the release of the La Aurora 120 Anniversary Limited Edition in celebration of their official 120th Anniversary (October 3, 1903). For 120 years, La Aurora has been crafting premium cigars that stand on the shoulders of tradition. La Aurora 120 LE is hand-crafted in small batches by expert torcedores with over 20 years of experience and crafted in a beautiful Habano 92-seed leaf wrapper, Dominican binder, and Dominican Republic filler blend (Piloto Cubano, Olor Dominicano, Corojo). The 120 Anniversary LE […]
As expected, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), filed a notice of appeal on behalf of the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Cigar Association of America, Cigar Rights of America, and Premium Cigar Association v FDA. On August 9, 2023, Judge Amit Mehta issued a ruling in the CRA-led lawsuit CAA et al. v FDA striking down all FDA regulations […]
Matt Booth first developed Room 101 in 2003 as a jewelry brand in Los Angeles. 6 Years later he would connect with Davidoff where Room 101 Cigars would be made by their recently purchased Camacho Cigars. In 2017, he would briefly leave the industry before coming back with two new cigars made with Robert Caldwell. More recently, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) would purchase Room 101 Cigars where Matt Booth remains today as creative director. The Room […]
Crowned Heads has announced the addition of two new dedicated sales representatives to the team. These appointments come at a time of significant momentum and promise to elevate their level of retail customer support. The company has hired Craig Smith, a former hospitality executive to the southwest territory. The Arizona resident will oversee Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico. Additionally the company has hired Andy Yaffee who brings a decade of premium cigar sales. He […]
From the bottle, “The end of the 19th century saw the passage of the Bottled-In-Bond Act of 1897. Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. was instrumental in passing this law, which safeguarded legitimate whiskey labels from bogus producers, who in his words, “polluted and diluted” their whiskey. “Bottled-In-Bond” mandates that such whiskey must be from the same distillery, made in the same season, aged no less than four years and bottled at 100 proof. This spicy […]
Buffalo Trace Distillery is thrilled to announce The Prohibition Collection: an annual limited-edition, multi-bottle collection honoring the whiskeys that were legally produced and sold at the distillery during arguably the most contentious time period in alcohol history. Known then as the George T. Stagg Distillery, the debut release tributes five Prohibition Era-brands that have, until now, disappeared: Old Stagg, Golden Wedding, Three Feathers, Walnut Hill and George T. Stagg Spiritus Frumenti. From 1920 to 1933, the […]
The J21 is part of the Tatuaje Selección de Cazador Miami Reserva line. As the name implies it was rolled in Miami at Don Pepin’s Miami based My Father Cigar Company. Tatuaje brand owner Pete Johnson has long had a relationship with the Garcia family with the two growing in popularity almost side by side in the cigar industry. These days the partnership has become family with Pete Johnson and Janny Garcia of My Father Cigars […]