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Fratello

IPCPR 2015 Recap: Fratello

Omar de Frias launched his Fratello brand in 2013 and earned customers the old fashioned way, by pounding the pavement. In the two years since launching his brand he has opened over 450 accounts with only 1 line of cigars, which is quite impressive. Not only did he introduce his second line, Bianco, at this […]

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Nat Sherman

IPCPR 2015 Recap: Nat Sherman

Nat Sherman Cigars have found a place in our humidor at Emerson’s Cigars with cigars such as 1930, the TAA Exclusive Panamericana, Timeless, and Timeless Nicaragua. Now we are expanding the portfolio even further with Host, Host Maduro, Metropolitan and Metropolitan Maduro. You will find these available at our stores and online shortly. More info […]

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Gurkha

IPCPR Recap: Gurkha Cigars

The award for coolest sampler goes to Gurkha who not only give you 5 cigars, but you also get a bad ass knife too! In addition to the sampler look for the 4th and final edition of the Cellar Reserve Platinum to drop soon. Unlike the rest of the Cellar Reserve lines which use Dominican […]

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General Cigar

IPCPR 2015 Recap: General Cigar

Next up was a visit to General Cigar. Across the spectrum of it’s brands, General Cigar seemed to have something new to offer all around. All new holiday gift sets will be offered at Christmas time featuring special holiday stockings with brand logos loaded with cigars ready to be hung by the chimney. Foundry Cigar […]

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La Flor Dominicana

IPCPR 2015 Recap: La Flor Dominicana

A visit to the La Flor Dominicana showed us LFD has a new cigar, a fancier looking solomones and a line extension of sorts. La Nox is the newest Limited Edition LFD cigar blended by Tony Gomez. La Nox uses a Brazilian wrapper with a San Andreas Binder and Dominican filler tobaccos from LFD’s La […]

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Altadis

IPCPR 2015 Recap: Altadis

On day two of the show we were surprised to see so many “Sold Out” signs on products in the Altadis booth. Part of this was due to the number of limited production cigars being released, but there were also a few new regular production items on display as well. Here are a few highlights […]

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Drew Estate

IPCPR 2015 Recap: Drew Estate Cigars

It’s never hard to find the Drew Estate booth, it’s usually the one emanating hip-hop music and has a large crowd of people walking around. This year, the two story booth was even easier to find with it’s convenient location right as you walked in to the convention center. The Drew Estate booth had plenty […]

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Crowned Heads & Xikar

IPCPR 2015 Recap: Crowned Heads & Xikar

Thought I would combined these next two as they were pretty quick visits to the booths, but both with some cool new stuff coming soon! Crowned Heads had some fresh new hats on display but the real story is the release of La Imperiosa which is the 2014 Las Calaveras blend in new sizes. If […]

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