Casa Carrillo 2026 TAA Exclusive Ships This Week
Casa Carrillo’s limited 2026 TAA Exclusive is shipping this week in a 5 1/2 by 58 size, combining tobaccos from five countries in a one time run of just 1,000 boxes.
Arturo Fuente Black Pink Begins Nationwide Shipping This Week
Arturo Fuente’s Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink line has begun nationwide shipping this week after its limited TAA launch in March, featuring four perfecto vitolas.
West Tampa Tobacco Co. West Tampa Red
West Tampa Red, the third regular-production line, was announced in early 2023 and began shipping in May 2023. It uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper with a Nicaraguan Condega binder and fillers from Condega and Estelí, produced at Garmendia Cigars Co. in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Rocky Patel Matrix Named 2026 TAA Exclusive
The Rocky Patel Matrix arrives as the 2026 TAA exclusive in a 6 by 50 size, limited to 15,000 cigars and priced at 14 dollars each.
AJ Fernandez Last Call Maduro
AJ Fernandez, the Estelí-based Nicaraguan maker known for a wide range of regular-production lines and factory collaborations, introduced Last Call as the first release in his Portfolio Series. The blend began as a private smoke that Fernandez shared with guests at his Casa Blanca estate during the final quarter of NFL games, functioning as the evening’s last cigar.
Crowned Heads Ships Moose Kick 2026 Canadian Exclusive With Golden Crown Contest
Crowned Heads is shipping the third annual Moose Kick Limited Edition exclusively to the Canadian market this week. The refined 4 7/8 by 56 robusto extra includes a new contest with ten hidden gold crown bands.
Illusione ULTRA MKULTRA 2026
Illusione is a cigar brand founded by Dion Giolito. The MKULTRA began in 2006 as a production run that came out stronger than intended and was sold through retailer NHC Cigars. In 2011 the blend returned as the ~ULTRA~ MKULTRA, a full production line in four sizes with an all-Nicaraguan blend and a corojo wrapper.
Ferio Tego Timeless Prestige Torpedo
Timeless Prestige is the original Timeless line, first released in 2012 and later renamed along the way before settling on its current name. It’s made at the Quesada factory in the Dominican Republic. The blend combines six tobaccos from three countries: a Honduran wrapper, a Dominican binder, and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers.
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Polpetta
From Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, the boutique maker founded by Steve Saka under the “puros sin compromiso” ethos, comes the Polpetta (Italian for “meatball”). This handmade puro elevates the sandwich style cigar using carefully sorted chaveta cuts from the brand’s top Broadleaf ligas: Mi Querida (including Triqui Traca and Black), Umbagog, and Red Meat Lovers. These are paired with two long leaf tripas, a San Andrés Negro binder, and outside cuts of Broadleaf capa.
Illusione Epernay Le Elegance Petit Lancero
Named for the Champagne town of Épernay in France, it was conceived as a more elegant, slightly milder counterpart to the original Illusione blend. It uses Nicaraguan Corojo and Criollo tobaccos with no ligero, finished in a Café Rosado wrapper, and produced at Raíces Cubanas in Honduras.
Joya De Nicaragua Joya Silver
Joya Silver was added in 2018 during the brand’s 50th anniversary year, using an Ecuadorian oscuro wrapper over a Mexican binder and Nicaraguan fillers, in four box-pressed sizes.
Quesada Oktoberfest 2026 Ships
Quesada Cigars has begun shipping its 2026 Oktoberfest release, marking 15 years since the line debuted in 2011. Boxes started leaving the factory on August 31 and are now reaching U.S. retailers.
Micallef Orange Ships Nationwide
Micallef Cigars has completed the national launch of Orange, the seventh cigar in its Color Series. After a soft launch last week at Two Guys Cigars in New Hampshire, the company began shipping to retailers across the United States on August 31, with boxes expected on shelves by September 5.
Davidoff Leaves ProCigar
Davidoff is no longer a member of ProCigar, the Dominican Republic’s principal association of cigar manufacturers.
Caldwell Cigar Co. reissues Eastern Standard Silk Road Lancero
Caldwell Cigar Co. has reissued the Eastern Standard Silk Road Lancero, a size last produced in 2014.
Warped La Colmena Amado No. 44
In the small Miami factory of El Titan de Bronze, Warped Cigars found the home for its most Cuban minded work. La Colmena, Spanish for The Beehive, is the flagship line.
West Tampa Tobacco White Toro
West Tampa Tobacco Co. launched in 2022 under Rick Rodriguez, former CAO blender, and Gus Martinez. The name honors West Tampa, where Rick’s Cuban grandparents settled as rollers in the 1950s after leaving Havana. White was one of two debut regular production lines, shipping in June 2022 from Garmendia Cigar Co.
Oz Family Maracana Robusto
Maracana is Tim Ozgener going back to Brazilian wrapped cigars under Oz Family Cigars, named for Rio’s Maracana Stadium.
Los Amigos Cigars Makes United States Debut Through Domain Distribution
Los Amigos Cigars will now be distributed by the newly formed Domain Distribution, from Domain Cigars. They will now be available in the US market.
Martello Cigar Co. Ships First Release, Ortolan
Martello Cigar Co. has begun shipping its first cigar to retailers. Ortolan, a 6 x 50 toro, is now leaving Miami and heading into shops after a late summer launch that the company first flagged in July.
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