PCA 2021: Boveda
Every time I run into people from Boveda there’s always a new employee or two that I haven’t met. Such was the case during my annual stop by the Boveda booth this year. What’s normally not happening during this visit is a conversation about new items from Boveda, though this year we got to have that chat.
The Boveda booth has more or less been the same for quite some time. This year like in 2019 Rob Gagner is set up in the back to record interviews for Boveda’s Box Pressed podcast. When I was there and actually well after I left Steve Zengel of Los Caidos was getting interviewed.
Villiger Announces Limited Edition for TAA 2021
Villiger Cigars North America has announced that it will be offering an exclusive cigar to members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America at the group’s upcoming virtual meeting on March 23.
The Villiger TAA Exclusive 2021 is a 6 x 54 toro gordo that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, while the binder and filler are both Dominican. Rene Castañeda, president of Villiger Cigars North America, calls it a medium bodied profile. The cigars are being made at Tabacalera Palma, the Dominican factory owned by Jochy Blanco. Villiger had previously worked with Tabacalera Palma for the release of the Cuellar Black Forest in 2019 as well as the Villiger Connecticut Krēmē, Trill by Villiger and the Villiger Cabareté Maduro, which came out in 2014.
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