by | June 17, 2019 · 7:28 am

News: Southern Draw Cigars adds 300 HANDS Connecticut

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the week off with some more news out of Southern Draw. the 3oo Hands line is getting a Connecticut line extension. Read on: 

 

Southern Draw Cigars adds 300 HANDS CONNECTICUT at IPCPR 2019

The company is adding the 300 HANDS Connecticut blend and has updated its rustic display to best share all three blends and “story cards” with the faces, names, roles and charitable needs of the 300 HANDS featured staff. “This is their story.”

Announced a year ago we are reminded that that 300 HANDS, is an all too real story of collaboration told through a value line of premium cigars from Southern Draw Cigars. The result of approximately 300 small steps and those hand

s producing nearly identical handmade rolled bundles of our patiently aged and naturally fermented tobaccos that we know as premium cigars. The process of hand making a premium cigar is a deliberate marriage of art and skill that has been passed down from generation to generation and our beloved Nicaragua, with its complex tobaccos and dedicated people, is now the most prominent supplier of this unique art form to the United States and the company is honored to share this charitable project with our retail partners and consumers.  For the entire story please visit us at https://www.southerndrawcigars.com/300-hands

 

300 HANDS Connecticut

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Factory: AJ Fernandez Cigar Co.

Wrapper: Connecticut, USA

Binder: Peru

Filler: Nicaragua & Dominican Republic

Notes:  a smooth and mellow tasting high-grade Connecticut wrapper, velvety smoke with a slight zest of citrus and bright spicy notes from the Peruvian binder and just a touch of spice from the Corojo 99 and complimentary filler tobaccos.  

 

300 HANDS Connecticut joins the 300 HANDS Maduro and 300 MANOS Habano as all three blends are offered in five classic sizes, each sold in 10 count bundles (each retail order will include a FREE vertical display tray that is just 12”w x 10”d x 12”h and holds three blends and 10 cigars of each size with easy to use refill bundles)

    • Petit Edmundo 4.75 x 52 – $5.99 (Bundles of 10, $59.99)
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      Coloniales 5.25 x 44 – $6.19 (Bundles of 10, $61.99)

    • Corona Gorda 5.625 x 46 – $6.29 (Bundles of 10, $62.99)
    • Piramides 6.125 x 52 – $6.39 (Bundles of 10, $63.99)
    • Churchill 7.0 x 48 – $6.49 (Bundles of 10, $64.99)

 

  • Release Date – June 28 – July 2, available during tradeshow hours at Booth #3061 IPCPR 201
  • Number of Cigars Released – 150 display trays, 50,000 cigars per sizes for 2019, 250,000 cigars
  • Ship Date(s) – August & October 2019

 

To make an appointment for IPCPR 2019, please email shelly@southerndrawcigars.com as 300 HANDS is available to our valued retail partners who are in

good standing and will be first come, first served.  

 

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by | June 16, 2019 · 8:41 am

Fathers Day, a Diamond Crown and Various Cigar Stuff

I didn’t smoke any new cigars this week, so this will be pretty short and sweet (every time I say that I end up running on or a few paragraphs!). I have to work today too, and I’m up early writing. It was another busy news week. I skipped a few items that I thought were less interesting, I doubt many of you are really that interested in Scandinavian Tobacco Group looking for a new president for General Cigar since Régis Broersma is leaving that post. I figure if you’re in line for that job you aren’t relying on this site to hear that news. Also Drew Estate had a few that I skipped over, one about Acid and Tabak Frenchies, which are cigarillos, which I care little about, and another about 60 ring Tabak Espeicales with I should have posted but I had already had a few news items that day and couldn’t fit it in. I actually would smoke a 60 ring Tabak Especiale. Another one I missed was the announcement of the Protocol Official Misconduct Corona Gorda. Cubariqueño has a history of following their releases with a corona gorda line extension, so this is no surprise. Plenty of other sites had the news, I’m sure. Anyway, I can only do so much, and, regrettably, it seems that every year at IPCPR time when all this news comes out I get some unsubscribes from the mailing list. Sorry for the barrage of e-mails. I guess I can see if I can adjust the e-mails to twice a week or something.

 

Anyway, there were a could great cigars I smoked this week, a few of which took me back twenty years or so into my cigar smoking history. I had a Fuente Don Carlos No.2, the 5.875 x 55 pyramid, was this one of the the original three vitolas in the line? I know the Robusto and the No.3 were original, but I can’t remember if the No. 2 was or if it came along later. Anyway, I have memories of smoking a Don Carlos Robusto in Vegas in 1997, many more over the years of course, but this is a cigar that has remained consistent in flavor over the years, an amazing thing. Same goes for the Hemingway line, consistent over the years. I like to have some of these in the humidor all the time, classics like the Don Carlos, Hemingway, and Añejo because they are just great cigars!

 

Another cigar I smoked that brought back some Vegas memories was a Diamond Crown (hey, another DC!). J.C. Newman was kind enough to send me a cool little four-pack of Diamond Crown No. 4s a week or so ago, so I had to light one up yesterday. Here is another cigar that hasn’

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t changed over the years. It’s a mild, complex Connecticut Shade cigar. There’s a couple interesting factoids about this cigar. When they released this cigar, it was only available west of the Mississippi. At the same time, Opus X was only available east of the Mississippi. These are two completely different cigars, but this caused a bit of a competition between the two, and some trading went on. Another interesting thing was that Diamond Crowns all had 54 ring gauges which was HUGE at the time. Anyway, The Diamond Crown remains a classic Connecticut Shade cigar, it’s rich and complex, it had a good flavor with a perfect burn and construction and is hard to beat. In the picture here from 1998 in Vegas I’m smoking a Diamond Crown No. 2, and my wife (also pictured!) is smoking one too!

 

Speaking of J.C. Newman, they have been running a contest here for the last few months, if you haven’t entered yet I strongly recommend doing so!  Click the ad at the top of the right sidebar, or right here, and enter to win a beautiful Brick House Humidor. It’ll be ending at the end of June, so get to it!  Many thanks to J.C. Newman for their conti

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nuing support. Please flood them with entries and make them give one of you a humidor so that they know that people are seeing their message here on CigarCraig.com!

 

That’s it for today. I’m going to get through the day at work so I can come home and smoke my traditional Father’s day cigar, one of my last two 1999 Esperanza para los Niños toros. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of my buying the box of them and the last cigar from that box will be smoked. It’s been a good run. If you don’t know about them, search my site, I’ve told the story several times.  Have a great day, until he next time,

 

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by | June 14, 2019 · 7:28 pm

News: Joya de Nicaragua Antaño CT to Ship in July

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this one.  I love the Antaño, it’s among my favorite cigars in either the 1970 or Dark Corojo. I’m also a fan of the Cabinetta. I certainly don’t mind a Connecticut shade cigar, and I will give it a try when it hits stores (not going to the show so I won’t get samples!), but it seems to me it’s a little like a Conny shade Liga 9…hmmm, I have one of those in a humidor someplace, maybe I should give it a try!  Whatever, it’s a Joya, I’m sure it’ll be good! 
Joya de Nicaragua invites you to keep daring and experience an intense CT smoke

Joya de Nicaragua invites you to keep daring and experience an intense CT smoke

Antaño CT: a cigar for defiant souls

With its silky-smooth Connecticut shade wrapper, it may seem tamer than its bolder Antaño brethren. Don’t be fooled. Antaño CT is a masterful and paradoxical blend of what a cigar with attitude can be. A cigar that defies expectations; a smoke for those with defying souls.  Antaño in Spanish means ‘Yesteryear’, a word that perfectly expresses the soul of the Joya de Nicaragua Antaños. The first blend of this family was released almost 20 years ago as a tribute to the power and the essence of the “The True Nicaraguan Puro” that made Joya de Nicaragua the most sought-after cigar in the United States in the 1970s, during the post-Cuban embargo.

“Today, Antaño is not just one cigar blend, it is a family of products that invite smokers to Keep Daring, to try powerful and intense blends with distinctive Nicaraguan character. That is why we invite cigar lovers to dare to try the Antaño interpretation of what a Connecticut wrapped cigar should be” said Juan Ignacio Martínez, Executive President at Joya de Nicaragua.Antaño CT, with its Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper, and Nicaraguan fillers and binder, delivers a medium to full body and strength, with dynamic creaminess and intense spicy notes. Intentionally pungent to showcase the contrasts between the expected subtleties of the CT shade, and the rich and potent flavors of Nicaraguan tobacco.

“This smoke is definitely an intense experience, the intriguing result of master blenders on a paradoxical quest: the creation of a flavor bomb like the rest of the Antaños but with this wrapper. It became a real challenge for us at the factory, torcedores and blenders, we all wanted to defy an industry mantra, we knew we could make a truly interesting CT cigar” expressed Mario Pérez, Joya de Nicaragua’s Factory Manager.

The Antaño CT line will come in 20 count boxes, in 4 different sizes: 6×54 Belicoso (MSRP $ 9.90), 6×50 Toro (MSRP $9.70), 5×52 Robusto (MSRP $8.45), and 5¼x46 Corona Gorda (MSRP $8.00). Shipments to stores nationwide will start in July 2019, after being showcased at the 87thIPCPR Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About Joya de Nicaragua

Established in 1968, Joya de Nicaragua is Nicaragua’s first and oldest cigar factory in operation.

JDN’s commitment to quality along with their skillful and resilient people have brought their handmade cigars to over 50 countries around the world, making it Nicaragua’s most international brand.

For more information, please visit www.joyacigars.com

ABOUT DREW ESTATE

Founded in New York City in 1996, Drew Estate has become one of the fastest growing tobacco companies in the world. Under their mantra “The Rebirth of Cigars”, Drew Estate has led the “Boutique Cigar” movement by innovating new elements to the tobacco industry with their unique tobaccos and blending styles that attracting new and traditional cigar enthusiasts. In their Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, the Nicaraguan headquarters, Drew Estate produces a variety of brands such as ACID, Herrera Estelí, Herrera Estelí Norteño, Isla del Sol, Kentucky Fired Cured, Liga Privada, MUWAT, Larutan by Drew Estate, Nica Rustica, Pappy Van Winkle Barrel Fermented Cigars, Tabak Especial, Undercrown, Florida Sun Grown, and Java by Drew Estate.

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by | · 7:21 am

News: Ventura Cigar Company Announces Archetype Chapter 3

Today’s news is from Ventura Cigar Company.  Michal Giannini and Ernesto Carirllo have a long history together going back to La Gloria Cubana days, I still have one of their “ReUnited” colaborations in a humidor someplace.  

 

ARCHETYPE CHAPTER 3: THE LEGEND CONTINUES

TWO NEW BLENDS SET TO DEBUT AT IPCPR 2019.

Ventura Cigar Company (VCC) announced today the addition of Chapter 3 to its Archetype Cigars story, with two new tobacco blends set to release in June at IPCPR 2019. These unique cigars, named Sacred Scales and Dawn of Destiny, are crafted by Cigar Master Ernesto Perez-Carrillo in his award-winning factory in the Dominican Republic. Perez-Carrillo and Michael Giannini, General Manager at Ventura Cigar, have a unique friendship which spans over the last 20 years, crossing paths at different points in their career journeys. Archetype Chapter 3 is a celebration that marks their 3 rd cigar collaboration, and the beginning of a new phase in the Archetype story, and in their story as icons in the cigar industry. Attendees of IPCPR will be among the first to try the new Archetype Chapter 3 blends and bring them into their store’s inventory. Inspired by the work of psychologist Dr. Carl Jung and mythographer Joseph Campbell, Archetype Cigars herald the Hero’s Journey, a common storytelling arc that has been shared across cultures, space and time.

Chapter 3’s Sacred Scales, marks the inflection point in this journey, beginning the hero’s return to the real world from the imaginary. This full-bodied, full-flavored cigar offers a rich, signature Ernesto Perez- Carrillo smoking experience, featuring a San Andres Maduro wrapper from Mexico, an Ecuadorian binder, and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua. Sacred Scales will be available in a 5 x 50 Robusto, 6 x 52 Toro, and 6 x 60 Gordo.

Dawn of Destiny represents the hero’s return to reality as it travels across the threshold of flavor. A medium-full-bodied blend, this Perez-Carrillo-crafted cigar features

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“Ernesto Perez-Carrillo is one-of-a-kind,” says Michael Giannini, General Manager for Ventura Cigars. “He and I go way back. We are champions of each other’s work in the cigar industry, and creative collaborators at points along the way. It made sense for us to team up and begin this new chapter of Archetype, forging a

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new path in its story, and celebrating a new phase in our careers. Ernesto’s a master crafter, as a creator of blends that treat the cigar smoker to an evolving flavor experience. Chapter 3 is going to be an exciting one for all of us- I just know it.” The overarching Archetype experience ventures through the top-rated cigars Dreamstate, Sage Advice, Strange Passage, Initiation, and Axis Mundi. And in Fall 2018, the Archetype Mini-Series added a 3-cigar side quest with Crystals, Curses, and Cloaks. For more information about Archet

ype Cigars, or any other cigars in the Ventura Cigar Company Portfolio, please visit venturacigar.com.

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offer multiple award-winning blends that earned 90+ ratings in Cigar Aficionado, Cigar & Spirits, and Cigar Snob. And Archetype’s Axis Mundi won #13 Cigar of the Year for 2017 from Cigar Aficionado. Ventura Cigar Company also distributes Tommy Bahama Luxury Cigar Accessories and the 4 th Generation Tobacconist and Comoy’s of London lines of pipe tobacco products, extending its reach and tradition of offering top-quality tobacconist products. Pipes and blends under these brands are cultivated through generations of craftsmanship, making them longtime favorites of pipe tobacco enthusiasts.

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by | June 13, 2019 · 8:56 pm

News: Altadis Celebrates H. Upmann’s 175th Anniversary With Limited Edition Cigar

I think I was just saying a few posts ago how much I liked the A.J. Fernandez H. Hupmann cigar, now Altadis is partnering with A.J. Fernandez again for the 175th Anniversary cigar. I’m looking forward to this one! 

                                                                    

CELEBRATING AN ICONIC BRAND: UPMANN 175thANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION

 

A.J. Fernandez uses the rare medio tiempo wrapper  for limited edition H. Upmann 175th Anniversary

 

Altadis U.S.A. is celebrating a special milestone as the H. Upmann cigar brand turns 175 years old. The limited-edition H. Upmann 175th Anniversary will commemorate one of the oldest and most renowned cigars brands. This limited edition will only be expressed in the iconic Churchill size, in 10 count boxes that will number to 14,750. Fifty special-edition humidors containing 50 cigars will also be offered. The story of H. Upmann cigars is one of adventure, family, and passion for tobacco.

 

It all began in 1843, when German banker Herman Upmann took a leap of faith and moved to Havana, Cuba, to open a branch for his family bank. He created a small batch of cigars for his best clients, but quickly became impassioned with tobacco. A passion that led him to found his own cigar brand in 1844, joined by his younger brother August. The brothers purchased a small cigar factory and diligently learned to combine tobacco artistry and German ingenuity. 175 years later, H. Upmann is still known the world over.

For this special project, H. Upmann tapped A.J. Fernandez who brought forward the extremely elusive “Medio Tiempo” wrapper – grown on 1 out of every 12 tobacco plants above the ligero leaves -, to add complexity and flavor as the final dressing of this Nicaraguan puro.  A.J. and his team carefully harvested this special leaf and utilized very intricate fermentation processes for over 3 years which, while extremely time consuming, bring out the very best in the medio tiempo leaf.

The H. Upmann 175th Anniversary boasts unparalleled flavors for a unique sophisticated smoking experience. This medium to full body cigar starts with elements of coffee and some earthiness. As the cigar develops, the flavors intensify with caramel and salt notes together with roasted espresso bean overtones. The spectacular clean finish delivers a creamy and uncommonly velvet smoke with a rich and resonant balance of spices, dark chocolate and nuts.

From Rafael Nodal, Head of Product Capability for Tabacalera USA: “One of the things that I love about creating new blends, is the constant learning about tobacco. Working with AJ Fernández and the rarest wrapper in the world, Medio Tiempo, has definitely been a unique and rewarding experience. There are great cigars and then there is the H. Upmann 175th Anniversary blend. An unforgettable cigar.”.

 

Candela Diaz, Brand Manager for H. Upmann: “H. Upmann is one of the most storied cigar brands. It was impossible to pass up an opportunity to commemorate this brand that embodies brotherhood and love of tobacco. We look forward to unveiling the H. Upmann 175 at the 2019 IPCPR in Las Vegas.”

 

The H. Upmann 175thAnniversary will ship to retailers in July 2019.

 

Vitola: Churchill 50 x 7

MSRP: $18.00 per cigar

MSRP for the 50 count H. Upmann Special Edition Humidor: $1,250.

About Altadis U.S.A.

Altadis U.S.A. has been crafting fine premium cigars since 1918 and is responsible for many of the world’s most renowned brands, including Henry Clay, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, H. Upmann and Trinidad. If you have ever enjoyed a premium cigar, there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed a cigar crafted by Altadis U.S.A. Visit www.altadisusa.com for more information.

 

 

 

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