Places & People IPCPR 2015 Notes and Dispatches: Global Marketing and Distribution Corporate Culture hits the Cigar World Maybe that is a harsh assessment. As I’m walking down one of the main aisles crossing the show floor, I see a guy at an…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes J. Fuego Cigar Co.Cigar Development by… EVERYONE Aimlessly wandering the show floor with assignments yet to complete, I was beckoned by the 'beach shack' that was the J. Fuego Cigar Company…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Notes and Dispatches Kuuts Cigars - An introduction to a new (to me) company Right in the thick of the show, was a neat, clean, not-so-busy exhibit. It was too big and well-appointed to be that way. I finally got the…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes: Arandoza Cigars DEFCON BEWARE Social media led me to a manufacturer I hadn’t learned of, before. I saw tweets and such about Arandoza and a booth number. So, they’re at the show, wait, I’ve seen…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes: July 21, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana There has NEVER been a better time to be a cigar smoker! It’s true, I believe it! Despite cigar and tobacco smoking bans being enacted across the…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes: Las Cumbres Tabaco Señorial and the new Viking Invasion Understatement. Excellence. Consistency. Character. Quality. Craftsmanship. I admire these traits in people. Many in this world hope to…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes Marrero Cigars Is Costa Rica really unfashionable? Over the years, as Cigar Weekly member David 'Yogi' Dean will testify, we make IPCPR 'show friends' or 'show peeps'. These are people we run…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes: IPCPR 2015: Notes, Dispatches and Cigar Reviews Good men and women of CigarWeekly.com, especially you manufacturers, I do apologize. I’m very sorry. Due to the weekend scheduling of the trade…
Places & People IPCPR 2015 Dispatches and Notes: IPCPR 2015: Notes, Dispatches and Cigar Reviews Taking a cigar vacation? What a wonderful concept, sounds great to me; taking a vacation FROM cigars? Bad idea, it is. Not going to the IPCPR, except…
