Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Paul Palmer of Casa Fernandez Cigars. Paul’s first cousin, Eduardo Fernandez, owns Casa Fernandez and Aganorsa (an agricultural conglomerate), and Paul essentially heads up the tobacco division of Aganorsa, as well as Casa Fernandez. Aganorsa supplies tobacco for some of the...
read moreThis past week, I had the opportunity to interview a true legend in the industry, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo of EPC Cigar Company. Ernesto owned La Gloria Cubana, an extremely popular cigar brand that was bought by General Cigar Company years ago. Ernesto decided to part ways with General Cigar Company to start a company that his...
read moreA few months ago, my friend Gary Arzt introduced me to a friend of his, Berta Bravo. Berta is known throughout Miami as “The Guayabera Lady”, and for good reason. She makes beautiful guayaberas, and agreed to make two guayaberas for The Weekly Cigar with custom embroidery. I told her in exchange for doing such a great...
read moreToday, I’m back with Part 2 of my interview with Ernesto Padilla of Padilla Cigars. In this part of the interview, Ernesto finishes answering my questions and actually breaks some interesting news about the future plans for his website, online retailing, and more. After the interview, Ernesto explains the tobaccos that he uses...
read moreA few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Ernesto Padilla of Padilla Cigars at his cigar shop and factory in Little Havana, Miami. Ernesto has a beautiful cigar shop set up there on Calle Ocho, and I was very impressed with the care that went into the design and construction of the shop. The shop will also serve as a small...
read moreThis week, I had the opportunity to interview Kaizad Hansotia of Gurkha Cigars. Kaizad sent me an email saying he liked my site, and I decided that would be a good opportunity to setup an interview with him. The history of the brand is a very interesting one, and I loved hearing it from the owner of Gurkha. I hope you enjoy the...
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