Cigar & Cedar
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The great houses and the new generation: torcedores, blenders, families and factories, reported from the public record.
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The Talisman Comes Full Circle: Cohiba’s Pigtail Returns to London
Nine years after its debut as a Limited Edition, the Cohiba Talisman joins the Linea Clasica as regular production. The world launch at the Orangery at Kensington Palace opened the brand’s 60th anniversary year.
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The Bull Goes Dark: La Flor Dominicana Marks Ten Years of the Andalusian Bull
A decade after the original figurado became one of the most coveted cigars in the world, Litto Gomez returns to the 2016 La Canela harvest for a broadleaf-wrapped anniversary edition limited to 5,000 boxes.
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Death Mask: Apostate's First Cigar Out of Estelí
A Utah brand built on Mormon mythology moves production to Nicaragua's most notorious factory. The 5,000-cigar Death Mask started shipping October 1.
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Fermin Perez Cigars Reboots: New Factory, New Distribution, New Puro Esteli
The Miami brand founded in 2021 moves all seven lines to Tabacalera Familia Disla in Esteli and U.S. wholesale to the new Domain Distribution platform, leading with a single-region corona.
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Davidoff: From Havana to the White Label
In 1989 Zino Davidoff burned more than 100,000 of his own cigars. The break with Cuba remade the brand, and the white band survived it all.
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The New Hondurans
Beyond the giants, a generation of Honduran makers is building houses of its own: in Danli, at Las Lomas, and in a factory that spent twenty years rolling for everyone else.
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The Women Rolling
The cigar was long a male preserve. At Havana's El Laguito factory, nine out of ten workers are women, and the hands behind the bench have a story of their own.
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Padrón: Three Generations
A $600 start in Little Havana, a burned factory, an embargo, and the most consistent name in cigars. The Padrón family story, from the public record.
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Fuente: The House That Fire Could Not Kill
A Tampa factory in 1924, Nicaragua in 1979, two warehouses in 2011, Warehouse #3 in 2023. The story of Arturo Fuente is the story of a family that keeps rebuilding.
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Casa 1910: The Mexican Leaf, Taken Seriously
Few houses roll in Mexico. Casa 1910 built its whole identity there: a Mexican puro, a revolution for a namesake, and a blender with a Habanos Academy diploma.
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The Torcedor's Hands
Every premium cigar passes through nine operations and a single pair of hands. An anatomy of how a cigar is built, from filler to cap.
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The Blender's Library
A blend is not invented. It is built, leaf by leaf and harvest by harvest, from a library of aged tobacco. Inside the blender's craft.