Founder, Publisher and Editor: William Cooper
CRA Member #: 227578
CRA Ambassador, North Carolina: #0159
Contact: coop@cigar-coop.com
CRA Ambassador, North Carolina: #0159
Contact: coop@cigar-coop.com
Cigar Coop was founded by William Cooper in August of 2010. Prior to 2010, Cooper was using various social media circles to share his experiences with the cigar and the cigar industry. He was encouraged by many others to start a web-site, and following the 2010 IPCPR Retail show, he launched "Cigar Coop"
Cooper was born in Brooklyn NY and spent his childhood living in the city limits of New York City. He attended Rutgers University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science in 1989. He has spent 23 years working in technology, and 12 of those years involving with enterprise software sales for a large technology company.
Cooper's experience with cigars began in 2007 while a member of Florios' Three Little Indians' cigar lounge in New York City. In 2008, he relocated with his family to North Carolina where he joined Outland Cigars. In 2010, became a part of the Outland Cigars' team as a Humidor consultant and has worked to help develop Outland Cigars' cigar facings to emerge as one of the premier retailers in the United States.
Cooper is also a proud member of the Cigar Rights of America (CRA). In December 2011, Cooper was a named a CRA Ambassador for the State of North Carolina.
He is also a member of General Cigars' Ambassador program to provide feedback on current and upcoming cigars. In addition to his cigar web-site, he is a contributing writer to "The Cigar Network" magazine and the online version of "QC Exclusive".
Cooper was born in Brooklyn NY and spent his childhood living in the city limits of New York City. He attended Rutgers University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science in 1989. He has spent 23 years working in technology, and 12 of those years involving with enterprise software sales for a large technology company.
Cooper's experience with cigars began in 2007 while a member of Florios' Three Little Indians' cigar lounge in New York City. In 2008, he relocated with his family to North Carolina where he joined Outland Cigars. In 2010, became a part of the Outland Cigars' team as a Humidor consultant and has worked to help develop Outland Cigars' cigar facings to emerge as one of the premier retailers in the United States.
Cooper is also a proud member of the Cigar Rights of America (CRA). In December 2011, Cooper was a named a CRA Ambassador for the State of North Carolina.
He is also a member of General Cigars' Ambassador program to provide feedback on current and upcoming cigars. In addition to his cigar web-site, he is a contributing writer to "The Cigar Network" magazine and the online version of "QC Exclusive".
Cigar Coop
Cigar Coop started out by all practical purposes as your classic cigar blog, but has had its own evolution process. Originally focused around "The Smoke, the Craft, and the People", founder William Cooper made a change in 2011 to focus to web-site around hard-core technical content and assessments of cigar products. The goal was to inform consumers, retailers, and manufacturers of products that exist in the marketplace and provide unbiased and timely feedback. Our goal is to do this within a code of ethics both on and off the web-site and to do it in an ad-free fashion.
Cigar Coop is now evolving to move beyond a blog and become a full-service, collaborative information resource around cigars. 2012 will mark the beginning of this journey and we look forward to all loyal readers and followers.
ON-GOING OPERATIONAL CODE OF ETHICS
Cigar Coop strives to bring you content by adhering to levels of integrity and honesty. Click here to review my guidelines to this site.
MEDIA
Caller (not guest) - The Dino Costa Show: Dino Costa has a unique brand of sports talk heard on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio. Dino is also a huge cigar enthusiast. While I'm not a guest by any means, Dino has been kind enough to take my calls when it comes to the cigars and the cigar industry. It's always great to discuss cigars on the "Dino Costa Radio Experience"!
"The Cigar Network" Magazine: Cigar Coop is the author of "Cigar Lounges - The Fabric of the Cigar Lifestyle". This appears in the April, 2011 issue of The Cigar Network magazine.
REFERENCES
Cigar Coop strives to provide the end consumer with timely and useful information when considering cigars as well as learn from the feedback to others. I'm extremely grateful to the following manufacturers for recognizing some of the contributions that have been done. All of these references were unsolicited and provided by the manufacturer. This web-site (as well as myself) does not solicit references and is grateful for the ones below.
La Gloria Cubana- we recognized three La Gloria Cubana Cigars in our Top 20 (and two in our Top 10) for Cigar of the Year. Thanks for the recognition on the web-site.
La Palina Cigars - we recognized two cigars of the line in the Top 10 for 2010 Cigar of the Year. Thanks for the recognition on the web-site.
Oliveros/Swag Cigars - we recognized the SWAG in the Top 20. Thanks for the recognition on the web-site.
Perdomo Cigars Australia recognizes Cigar Coop for the review of the Perdomo 10th Anniversary Reserve Champagne.
Savinelli USA recognized the review of the Savinelli Nicaragua Reserve
Emilio Cigars
Emilio Cigars recognized the review of the Emilio AF1and Grimalkin.
Torano Family Cigars
Torano Family Cigars recognized the review of the Torano Master BFC
Reinado Cigars
Reinado Cigars recognized the review of the Reinado blend.
JD Cigars
JD Cigars recognized the review of the JD Temptation Claro.
www.brobergs.se
Interesting. This is some store out of Sweden. They are selling the Avo LE11 online and pointed to my review. The last sentence links to my review stating "En målande och mycket entusiastisk beskrivning kan du läsa här." which translates to "A vivid and very enthusiastic description can be found here."
SAG Imports (Quesada, Fonseca, Casa Magna)
SAG Imports recognized our review of the Casa Magna Domus Magnus on their web-site (the second 6/24/11 entry)
