It’s that time of the year again! When the cigar community invades one city for a week of cigar smoking and wheeling and dealing at the annual industry trade show and. For cigar enthusiasts, it is Christmas in August, with all the leading cigar makers there to unveil their latest blends for the thousands of [...]
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This dispatch is from Barry Stein, of A Cigar Smoker, delivered from the floor of IPCPR. Check back throughout the day and week for more. Barry writes: I was able to scope out the building of the La Aurora booth which will also house Miami Cigar (I also assisted on the setting up of displays). [...]
The new Guillermo Leon line was announced for IPCPR, and it’s not the only new cigar that La Aurora’s bringing to us. The other, the La Aurora Corojo line, is available only to brick-and-mortar retailers. La Aurora vice president Guillermo León says, “Obviously, this cigar is personal for me. It is part of my family’s [...]
Look for a new cigar from the oldest cigar company in the Dominican Republic this week. La Aurora, which is celebrating 107 years of history in 2010, is set to release the Guillermo Leon at the IPCPR show. It’s the company’s first cigar to be made with two binders instead one, according to Cigar Aficionado, [...]
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What are you doing in February? Sure, it’s a bit early, but if you want to go to the ProCigar Festival next year, you might want to start nailing down the details now. The festival runs from February 6 – 11, 2010 in the Dominican Republic … and everyone will be there!
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My favorite DC tobacco shop, W. Curtis Draper, is having one heck of an event this Thursday, July 22, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM. Meet Guillermo Leon of La Aurora Cigars (the oldest cigar factory in the Dominican Republic) and Nestor Miranda and Rene Castaneda of Miami Cigar & Company. Drapers will feature La Aurora 107 and Nestor [...]
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The La Aurora 1495 series of cigars pays tribute to the city of Santiago de los Caballeros and is Made from six different types of tobacco. This cigar has an Ecuadoran Sumatra Sun Grown wrapper, a Dominican Corojo Binder and a mix of Dominican piloto cubano, Nicaraguan, Peruvian and Dominican Ligero filler. I’m smoking my [...]
Guillermo Leon and Nestor Miranda are about to gain their best audience yet: the Congressional Cigar Association. At a reception to be held on July 20, 2010, Leon and Miranda, in conjunction with W. Curtis Draper, will educate the CCA on the cigar industry. As anyone who followed the fight in Albany remembers, one of [...]
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