What happens when a cigar giant like Altadis U.S.A. Inc. collaborates with a small producer like Boutique Blends? The answer is the Romeo by Romeo y Julieta Aging Room, and it's going to hit cigar …
Premium cigar companies are finding big success with small-scale releases
A blend has been finalized for Boutique Blends' upcoming Aging Room line, and unlike most new cigar brands, it was determined by the public. After releasing a sampler box (see photo) of five …
Altadis U.S.A. Inc. said it has recently unearthed a small batch of Trinidad cigars that have been neatly tucked away in the depths of its vintage cedar room for nearly a decade. After years of …
One might expect Cuban-born Rafael Nodal, owner of Boutique Blends Cigars and the Aging Room brand, to have familial ties to tobacco and cigars, but he doesn’t. When he fled Cuba as a teenager on the …
Two cigarmakers are combining their love of musicianship with their passion for blending premium tobaccos.
Rafael Nodal is going to be very busy. Tabacalera USA has just named him head of product capability, a wide-ranging position that will require Nodal to support Tabacalera’s overall premium cigar …
On an afternoon in late spring, Booker Noe stands in the dimly lit passageway on the fourth story of a 20,000-barrel warehouse at the huge Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. Though rain from …
Romeo y Julieta is going Mexican. The newest version of this storied line, aptly named Romeo San Andrés by Romeo y Julieta comes draped in a dark, Mexican San Andrés wrapper and should be hitting …
At 9 a.m sharp, the doors of the Mirage conference room swung open and the line of more than 500 enthusiastic cigar devotees, which began to form nearly an hour earlier, filed in, marking the start …
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