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New Benji Menendez Partagas Comes to Market
Celebrating 60 years in the cigar business, Benjamin "Benji" Menendez is marking the milestone with the new Benji Menendez Partagas Master Series LX,...more
Posted: November 19, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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2012 Big Smoke Sunday Seminars—The "Rumbunctious Ruminar"
You have two cigars and four different rums. Statistically speaking, that will allow eight possible pairing combinations, all of them probably pretty...more
Posted: November 15, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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2012 Big Smoke Sunday Seminars—Top Three Cigars of 2011 Tasting
Like an ancient Roman holiday, every November beckons to cigar smokers around the nation to leave work, vacate their homes, take a break from their...more
Posted: November 13, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
September/October 2012 Issue : Good Life Guide
The Silo
While the widespread appeal of retractable tiki bars or disappearing hi-fis may have gone out with the kitsch of circular sunken living rooms in...more
Posted: November 6, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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La Riqueza Brand Gets New Packaging
It’s been four years since La Riqueza cigars hit the market, and brand owner Pete Johnson (who also owns Tatuaje) laments that it’s become the...more
Posted: October 24, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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E.P. Carrillo Releases Full-Bodied Cardinal Series
Cigarmaker Ernesto Perez-Carrillo has just released the E.P. Carrillo Cardinal Series, and he claims that it’s the strongest, most full-bodied...more
Posted: October 15, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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Tenth Anniversary Zino Platinum Hits Market
The Zino Platinum Ten Years, an anniversary line commemorating ten years of Davidoff’s upscale Zino Platinum brand, has gone on sale. The cigars...more
Posted: September 27, 2012 By David Savona / Gregory Mottola
Partagás Edición Limitada 2012 Trickles into Global Market
Four days ago, Habanos S.A., the international distributor for all Cuban cigars, announced that the Partagás Edición Limitada Serie C No. 3 would...more
Posted: September 13, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
July/August 2012 Issue : News & Features
The Aurora Effect
The oldest cigar company in the Dominican Republic does things its own way
Posted: September 11, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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Award-Winning Illusione Epernay Brand Expanded
The Illusione Epernay L’Excellence, which comes out in November, will mark the tenth size in the Epernay...more
Posted: September 6, 2012 By Gregory Mottola
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