Romeo y Julieta Edición Limitada JR 50th Launching Next Week
JR Cigar, one of the most popular cigar retailers in the world, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As is often the case with anniversaries in the cigar business, there will be a special cigar.
The Romeo y Julieta Edición Limitada JR 50th is a 5 x 54 robusto extra made by JR’s sister company, Altadis U.S.A. It uses a Mexican criollo wrapper over a Connecticut broadleaf binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It is being produced at Tabacalera de García in La Romana, the Dominican Republic.
2020 Awards: Company of the Year
There are no specific qualifications to be considered for this award. Typically, it seems like the award is given to the company who had the most “impressive” year, sometimes it ends up more as a most improved award.
Usually, that starts with considering whether a company really stood out for the new cigars it put out in a given year. This year, it doesn’t seem like anyone stood out in that regard. Nor was there a company that had some sort of revolutionary rebrand in 2020. It was 2020: most were just trying to figure out how to operate given the new complications and most of the big plans that companies had were thrown out the window.