By: PAUL GUZZO, TAMPA BAY TIMES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on: JUNE 14, 2021 02:05 AM The J.C. Newman Cigar Company claims to have the nation’s last bale of Cuban tobacco. Purchased just prior to the U.S. government cutting off all business relations with the socialist nation in 1962, the Newman family now stores it in their Ybor City factory basement. They use it as part of a history tour detailing Tampa’s time as cigar rolling capitol of the world, which was made possible due to the city’s close relationship with Cuba’s tobacco farmers. The Newmans now hope to import the…
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Posted on: April 6, 2021 United Cigars Director of Operations, Oliver Nivaud, has launched the first NFT (Non-Fungible Token) cigar. NFT is a unit of data on a digital ledger called a blockchain, where each NFT can represent a unique digital item, and thus they are not interchangeable. NFTs can represent digital files such as art, and other forms of creative work. Nivaud has spearheaded the formation of Concept Cigars, a new venture that will be used to create concept cigars. Like a concept car, a concept cigar is made to showcase new styling. Concept cars are often shown at…
Posted on March 24, 2021 DBL Cigars by Francisco Almonte has begun shipping their newest release, La Pipa. La Pipa is a pipe-shaped cigar handcrafted by Francisco Almonte and his team at Tabacalera DBL in Tamboril, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Each La Pipa features intricate artwork on the wrapper that is unique to each individual cigar. This cigar offering is the first of its kind to ever be produced for regular production by any cigar company. La Pipa is available in one size (6 7/8 x 56) and is offered with three different wrapper options. – San Andres Mexican Maduro wrapper…
Posted on: Feb 09, 2021 NEWS PROVIDED BY Cavalier Genève Cigars Cavalier Genève announced today the public opening of its LE2020 virtual reality cigar lounge, a VR space designed to celebrate and memorialize the brand’s collectible Limited Edition 2020 blend. This first-of-its-kind virtual experience enables up to 15 visitors to meet as avatars in an immersive environment with live audio chat and a video from founder Sébastien Decoppet describing his time in Danli, Honduras designing the blend and supervising the production of the cigars. The virtual cigar lounge also includes a photo gallery, 3D renderings of the cigar and box, and…
Posted by Jim Wyss On December 29, 2020 Locked-down smokers around the world are proving to be a boon for the Dominican Republic’s cigar and tobacco industry. Already the world’s largest cigar producer, the Caribbean nation is on track to export a record $1 billion worth of tobacco products this year. That would represent a 6% jump over the $942 million it sold abroad in 2019, according to government figures. The cigar industry has emerged as a bright spot for the region’s largest economy, which is expected to shrink 5.5% this year, as its critical tourism and services sectors are hammered by coronavirus-related…
Posted on: November 22, 2020 Post by: Deb Exel Over the years the store has changed hands, but the cigar store, founded in the 1890’s, used to serve as a place to get a smoke, bath and shave. A bath, shave and a smoke…you could get it all at R.L. Rice’s cigar store, at 108 Dunlop Street, conveniently located between the Barrie Hotel and the Queen’s Hotel, in the Brown Block. Mr. Rice, originally from Whitby, was known to carry the finest brands of cigars, tobacco and cigarettes as well as the largest and best stock of pipes and smoker’s accessories north of…
Posted by:Susanna McLeod More from Susanna McLeod Posted on: June 18, 2019 | Last Updated: June 18, 2019 Workers filed into their seats at the thriving factory to start the 11-hour shift. From 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. in downtown Kingston, the men and the teenage boys and girls manually processed tobacco leaves into fine-quality cigars. Cigar smoking was surprisingly big business in Canada in the mid-1800s, and the local tobacconists were up to the challenge. “Consumption per capital increased from 1,804 pounds in 1861 to 1,985 pounds in 1871,” according to editors Harold A. Innes and Arthur R.M. Lower…
Posted on Oct 29, 2020 By David Savona Some of the premium cigar industry’s most prized assets officially have new owners. Today, Imperial Brands PLC completed the sale of its premium cigar business to an investment consortium for 1.225 billion euros ($1.44 billion). The sale includes a vast array of cigar brands, factories and companies: 50 percent of Cuba’s Habanos S.A.; Tabacalera USA, the company that makes and markets such non-Cuban cigar brands as Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta and H. Upmann; a pair of cigar factories, including one that’s considered the world’s largest; and JR Cigars, one of the world’s biggest cigar retail chains. It’s one of the biggest…
Posted by Antonio Marsillo Posted on October 23, 2020 at 8:00 am All signs point to the Canadian government sticking with its plan to enforce the plain packaging law on tobacco sales in the country. Despite numerous protests, petitions, advocate groups, it seems the Trudeau government will go ahead and do its part to help destroy what is already a highly regulated business sector – the premium cigar market. Ironically, Justin Trudeau’s father was a close friend and ally of Fidel Castro. I wonder if the two past leaders are looking down on this ridiculous law whilst enjoying a Cuban…
Posted on: August 17, 2015 By: Carmen Sesin MIAMI, FL — When Afro-Cuban-American twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez launched their Tres Lindas Cubanas cigar line last year, they wanted it to represent some of the diverse Cuban races as well as honor their grandmother, who inculcated them with pride in their African roots. On a recent afternoon in a Coral Gables cigar shop, the twins point out their three signature cigars: “La clarita” – which means fair-skinned – and is light-medium bodied; “la mulata,” which means mixed black/white as is medium-full, much like their grandmother; and “la negrita” means black which is their strongest, full-bodied cigar.…