El Mago Mr. Almond #2
Mr. Almond is Tin #2, following the Oyama Omen. It is a 5 x 50 box pressed robusto with a Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper, U.S. Broadleaf binder and Nicaraguan fillers, packed five to a tin. It began shipping to select retailers this year, with five more tins planned.
Xikar Xi2 Cutters Get Four Day of the Dead Designs Inspired by Regions of Mexico
Quality Importers Trading Co. has announced a Dia de Muertos series for the Xikar Xi2 cigar cutter, with four designs each based on skull art from a different part of Mexico.
Gellis Family Essentials
Gellis Family Cigars is the line Kyle Gellis built under his family name, run alongside Warped and distributed by the same house. Essentials is the new core release from that project: a 4½ x 32 petit corona meant as a daily, pocket-sized smoke.
Cigar.com Redirects to Cigora Tomorrow
Two weeks ago we covered Scandinavian Tobacco Group's plan to fold Cigar.com into Cigora. That change happens tomorrow, September 29, though some outlets reported it as today. Cigar Coop listed the effective date as September 28, while Cigar World and the redirect itself point to the 29th.
Alec Bradley Adds Chunk Sumatra to Regular Lineup
Alec Bradley will add Chunk Sumatra to its Chunk series as a regular production cigar, according to a company press release circulated last week and reported by Cigar Journal, Cigar Dojo, Halfwheel, and Cigar Coop. Retail shipments are expected to begin in October 2026, with Halfwheel listing a start date of October 1.
Rocky Patel Disciple
Rocky Patel’s Disciple arrived at the 2021 PCA Trade Show and began shipping that September. Made at Tabacalera Villa Cuba in Estelí, it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler and was introduced as a darker, fuller sibling to the Sixty line released the same year.
Warped Isla Del Cocodrilo
Warped Cigars, the boutique house led by Kyle Gellis, introduced Isla del Cocodrilo at the 2024 PCA Convention. The line takes its name from Cuba’s long-standing nickname; “island of the crocodile”, a nod to the island’s distinctive shape.
Micallef Orange
Micallef Orange is the seventh regular-production blend in the Color Series, joining Black, Blue, Red, Purple, Green, and White. At PCA 2026 it was reported as the series’ closing core blend.
Zaya Younan Brings El Septimo to Little Havana: Inside Tonight's Event at Neptune Cigars
MIAMI, FL. September 25, 2026. Tonight, Neptune Cigars' flagship Little Havana superstore will host one of the more notable brand nights on Miami's cigar calendar this fall: an in person appearance by Zaya Younan, Chairman and CEO of El Septimo Cigars, running from 4 to 8 PM at the store's location on NW 7th Street. The event pairs a rare face to face audience with one of the industry's most polarizing luxury figures with a live music set from Miami saxophonist Manny Echazabal.
My Father La Lealtad
La Lealtad is My Father’s second regular cigar from its Honduras factory, a loyalty themed follow up to 2025’s My Father Blue. La Lealtad, Spanish for loyalty, is the second regular line from that factory after My Father Blue in 2025.
Casa Carrillo to Begin Shipping Pledge of Allegiance Rockets on Monday
Casa Carrillo has released full details on the second cigar in its 2026 Pledge of Allegiance series, a 6 3/8 by 58 figurado called Rockets. It is the fourth year the company has issued a Pledge of Allegiance line and the second year a Rockets size has been part of it.
Warped Companion
Warped Cigars, the boutique brand founded by Kyle Gellis, released Companion de Warped (often called Warped Companion) in December 2021 as a regular production line. It is the second Warped cigar made at Tabacalera La Isla in the Dominican Republic, following Chinchalle, and comes in a single 4½″ × 48 Rothschild vitola packaged in 25 count boxes.
Viaje Puts Unused Zombie Art on a New Figurado
Viaje is launching a project called Alternate Artwork. The series pairs previously unused package designs with a size or shape that has not been offered in that line before.
Dunbarton Previews Overseas No. 2 for International Markets
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust has previewed the next cigar in its international only Overseas series. Overseas No. 2 arrived in conversation this week during InterTabac activity, and Steve Saka shared the first clear picture of what the follow up to Overseas No. 1 will be, according to a preview published by Halfwheel.
Crowned Heads Mil Dias
Mil Días is Spanish for one thousand days. The name marks the stretch from 2017, when Eradio Pichardo and Luciano Meirelles first showed Jon Huber samples at Tabacalera Pichardo in Estelí, to the blend’s arrival in shops. Crowned Heads announced the line in July 2020 and began shipping it that September.
Meerapfel Project 18 Set to Ship in the Fourth Quarter
Meerapfel Cigar says Project 18 will begin shipping worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2026. The cigar was shown last week at InterTabac in Dortmund.
New England Cigar Expo Returns to Windham This Weekend
The New England Cigar Expo will return to Dreamers Ranch in Windham, New Hampshire, this Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2026, for two days of cigars, live entertainment, and industry gatherings.
El Titan De Bronze Nicaragua
El Titan de Bronze has spent over three decades building its name as one of Miami's few remaining premium cigar factories, known for small-batch craftsmanship under founder Sandy Cobas and president Giselle Herrera. With El Titan de Bronze Nicaragua, the company is producing one of its lines outside the United States for the first time in its history.
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust 10th Jubilee
The 10th Jubilee marks a decade of that work. Announced at the 2025 PCA Trade Show, it began reaching retailers in February 2026. Rather than a large figurado, Saka chose a 5 5/8 x 48 corona gorda, and the cigar is an ongoing production, though some retailers have described the initial run as limited.
XIKAR America 250 Cutters Start Shipping to Retailers
XIKAR's parent company, Quality Importers Trading Co., has started shipping a commemorative version of the XIKAR Perfect Xi1 cigar cutter to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States.
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