For those of you who don't know, IPCPR is in a couple weeks and with the looming FDA regulations, by all accounts, it's going to be a madhouse of new releases because all cigars released August 8th or later will be subject to FDA approval prior to marketing. I've heard industry media saying they expect close to 1,000 new releases as companies are going to clean out their pipelines of new blends. I don't blame the companies at all but I would think that outs shops in a bit of a bind as how will they evaluate what they want to carry from that glut of new releases. I'm sure a lot of the new releases will be good but I'm sure a good portion will be half baked and pushed to market just to beat the deadline.

What new releases are you guys excited about? Does that number of new releases excite you or make you nervous that many won't be good?