Cigar & Cedar
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Current reporting from the cigar world: regulation, harvests and the news that matters to the serious smoker.
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Off-Grid: Wildfire Bets the Company on the Monthly Drop
The fifth release in Wildfire Cigar Co.’s made-to-order monthly series wears a towable trailer on its band. The October cigar is a 5 1/4 x 54 from Tabacalera William Ventura, priced at $14.
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Berlin Blinks: Germany Spares Cigars the Worst of the Tobacco Tax Rise
A proposed twelve-fold increase in the ad valorem rate becomes a modest step instead, after the German cigar industry warned the original plan would decimate the trade.
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La Aurora's October: Puro Vintage 2016 and Hors d'Age 2025
Two vintage-dated releases ship this month from the Dominican Republic's oldest cigar maker: a Salomon built on 2016 harvest leaf, and a new annual release named for cognac's highest age statement.
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Beast Mode Enters the Humidor: Marshawn Lynch and Kingmakers Launch a Regular-Production Cigar
The former Seahawks star's lifestyle brand makes its full cigar debut at a Las Vegas charity event, with a Nicaraguan blend developed alongside Kingmakers' Claudio Torres and a December retail rollout.
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Enki Rises: Don Emmanuel's Anunnaki Figurado Ships to Retailers
After its InterTabac premiere, the fourth Anunnaki vitola pairs a 'cabeza tumbada' cap with a covered foot, keeping the Eladio Diaz co-blended recipe while changing how the smoke starts.
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The FDA's Premium Cigar Fight, Explained
A decade-long legal battle over whether a handmade cigar is a tobacco product like any other. The courts have now answered, three times. What it means for the smoker.
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Harvest 2026: What It Means for Next Year's Smoke
Cuba's crop is under severe strain; the rest of the industry's fields went largely unreported. What the published record says about the leaf you will smoke in 2027.