Patrick Ortner

April 23, 2025

Room101 Celebrates Two Milestones in 2025

Room101 Cigars, founded in 2009 by Matt Booth, is renowned for its bold, artistic approach to cigar making, blending unconventional branding with high-quality craftsmanship.
April 23, 2025

Forged Cigar Co. Adds to El Rey del Mundo, Partagas Lines

Forged Cigar Co., a subsidiary of Scandinavian Tobacco Group, added two cigar lines to two of its most legendary brands.
April 23, 2025

Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. Add Limited Edition and Island Jim

Oscar Valladares returned to its roots at the 2025 PCA Show with the release of a limited edition Leaf by Oscar Broadleaf cigar and a new Island Jim barber pole cigar.
April 20, 2025

Platinum Nova Goes “Nova”

While Platinum Nova may not have introduced a new cigar at this year’s PCA Show, it’s going a long way to build its brand recognition.
April 20, 2025

Matilde Introduces Cigar Honoring Legendary Cigarmaker

With his father’s passing, Enrique introduced a cigar at this year’s PCA Show to honor the late Jose’s legacy, Para Jose Seijas.
April 20, 2025

Luciano Debuts Four Cigars at PCA Show

Luciano came to the 2025 PCA Show fresh off announcing a new partnership under the Constella Group umbrella with the Portuguese company EMT and Puro Titan, a company owned by baseball great Adrian Gonzalez.
April 20, 2025

La Flor Dominicana Reimagines Suave

For its newest cigar, introduced at this year’s PCA Show, La Flor Dominicana (LFD) returned to its first cigar, released way back in 1994. Known then as “Premium Line,” that first cigar was a very mild and delicate smoke, and the cigar later became known
April 20, 2025

La Gloria Cubana Reunites With Ernesto Perez-Carrillo

La Gloria Cubana asked an old friend to create its latest cigar, Los Glorioso.
April 20, 2025

Karen Berger Cigars Debuts Nicaraguan Puro and Halftime

The first Nicaraguan puro in Karen Berger Cigars’ history, Ixtelli reportedly takes its name from an old word once used to describe today’s Esteli region.
April 20, 2025

Kafie 1901 Cigars Introduces Stiltsville

The cigar takes its name from a colorful period in South Florida’s history when wooden structures sat atop stilts in the shallows of Biscayne Bay where a thriving, if somewhat nefarious, community grew up and where Kafie enjoyed fishing in its later years.

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