E.P. Carillo Pledge Prequel
E.P. Carrillo sent the Pledge out in September 2020 as the third chapter of the Perez-Carrillo Series, after La Historia and Encore, and the Prequel was the size that led it. A soft box pressed 5 x 50, rolled at Tabacalera La Alianza in Santiago, Connecticut Habano wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and Nicaraguan filler.
Apostate Cigars Ships Death Mask, Its First Release from Fábrica Oveja Negra
Retailers are now receiving the first Apostate Cigars product rolled at Fábrica Oveja Negra. Brandon Oveson, co founder of Apostate Cigars, told halfwheel that boxes of Death Mask started moving to shops on October 1.
Casa Carrillo Pledge Purple Robusto Set to Reach Retailers Next Week
Casa Carrillo will begin shipping a new robusto size in its Perez Carrillo Pledge Purple line to retailers next week, according to reporting by Patrick Lagreid at Halfwheel.
Wildfire Cigar Co. Wanderer
Wildfire Cigar Co. is the brand Jeremy McDonald launched in 2021. Wanderer is a regular production line he showed at the 2023 Total Product Expo and shipped that March, alongside the limited Intro.
Tradecraft Adds Shinobi as Fourth Core Cigar, Drawn From Japanese History
Tradecraft Cigars has announced Shinobi, the fourth release in its core line alongside Gladius, Azorian and Vitruvian, according to Halfwheel. The cigar is a full-bodied 5 1/2 x 52 Gran Robusto. Rob Blumenthal, owner of Tradecraft, developed the blend with Hostos Fernández Quesada, owner of Tabacalera La Isla in the Dominican Republic, where the cigars are made.
Wildfire Cigar Co. Ships Off-Grid, a 5 1/4 x 54 Robusto Extra
Wildfire Cigar Co. has released Off-Grid, its October limited edition and the latest in a monthly series. Halfwheel lists it as released on October 6, 2026.
La Flor Dominicana Andalusian Bull 10th Anniversary Maduro Ships This Week
La Flor Dominicana is sending its Andalusian Bull 10th Anniversary Maduro to retailers this week, a limited-edition release that keeps the original cigar's unusual shape while swapping in a darker wrapper. According to Halfwheel, the company spent the past month teasing both the cigar and a movie it produced about the original Andalusian Bull.
Tatuaje Monster Smash Jason
Tatuaje is Pete Johnson’s brand, with its cigars rolled at My Father in Estelí. The Monster Series, launched in 2008, is one of its limited Halloween lines: each release is named and packaged after a film monster, and each carries its own blend.
XIKAR's Sentinel Puts Cigars, Cutter, Lighter and Cards in One Leather Case
XIKAR has started shipping the Sentinel, a zippered leather travel case that carries cigars and everyday gear together. Quality Importers Trading Co., the brand's parent company, is sending it to retailers at $199.99, halfwheel reports.
Espinosa Crema Corona
Espinosa Crema is the milder side of Espinosa Premium Cigars, the company Erik Espinosa built after his years with the 601 brand. The line came out in 2016 as Espinosa’s first Connecticut-wrapped cigar, made at La Zona in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Great Smoke Ticket page is up, goes live 11/3/26
The Great Smoke 2027 is Smoke Inn’s Arabian Nights edition, a four-day South Florida cigar weekend running March 18–21. Tickets go on sale November 3, 2026, at noon EST. Listings that say out of stock or sold out are not sold out. They are not live yet. Smoke Inn calls it America’s greatest cigar event.
My Father Blue Petit Robusto
My Father Blue is the García family’s first cigar made in Honduras. My Father Cigars, the house built by José “Pepín” García and long associated with its Estelí factory and the Miami shop where the family started, opened a new operation around Finca La Opulencia, its farm in Honduras’s Talanga region, and a factory in El Paraíso. Blue is the first blend to come out of that project.
Marshawn Lynch Brings Beast Mode to Kingmakers Cigars
Marshawn Lynch is taking Beast Mode off the field and into the humidor. The former NFL running back has partnered with Kingmakers Cigars on Beast Mode by Kingmakers, a new regular production line.
Oz Family Karatoba
OZ Family Cigars is Tim Ozgener's return to the industry after the family sold CAO. Karatoba, released in 2025, is the brand's fourth regular-production line and its first made at Nicaragua American Cigars S.A. (NACSA). The name joins kara, Turkish for dark, with Lake Toba, the volcanic lake in Sumatra.
Perdomo Legacy Father & Son Natural Shade Grown
Perdomo Legacy Father & Son, released in 2026, extends that line as the company’s first limited production offering and a direct collaboration between father and son. The Shade Grown is the blend Nick Perdomo Jr. created himself, using that hybrid leaf for both wrapper and binder, with filler from Condega, Estelí, and Jalapa drawn from rare 2011 to 2016 lots. It is offered in one size, a box pressed 6 x 48/60/52 Gran Figurado.
A.J. Fernandez Amar
Amar, released in 2026 as a regular-production line, is a Nicaraguan puro with a Habano wrapper, rolled at the San Lotano factory in Ocotal.
Cavalier Genève Ships Two New Small Batch Cigars
Cavalier Genève has replaced the four cigars that made up its Small Batch Series with two new releases. Founder Sébastien Decoppet told halfwheel in a text conversation that boxes of the Small Batch Lancero and Salomónes began shipping to stores this week.
Brick House Maduro
Brick House is a J.C. Newman Cigar Company brand named after the ancestral Hungarian home of company founder Julius Caeser Newman.
Casa Carrillo Begins Pledge of Allegiance Rockets Release
Casa Carrillo is shipping the second chapter of its 2026 Pledge of Allegiance project this week, the limited Rockets size, after a planned start on Monday, September 28.
Tatuaje Sets Early October Shipping for Jason Redux 6
Tatuaje Cigars will send the sixth chapter of its Monster Redux series to stores in early October as The Jason Redux 6 returns to the market.
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