An INCH really is a big deal!
Ernesto Carrillo has a long history with cigars, notably his famous La Gloria Cubano line sold to General Cigars some time ago. In 2009, at the nadir of the great recession Ernesto left General to found EPC Cigar Company along with his son, Ernesto III and daughter, Lissette. During 2012, EPC Cigars launched the INCH series of medium to full bodied cigars with ring sizes of 60, 62 and...
Pride of Jamaica – House of Barrington
We receive hundreds of cigars a year to review. Today’s selection comes from the manufacturer, who we met at last summers industry trade show. An unassuming man with a passion for his country and cigar making. As a small boy in Jamaica, young Barrington Adams found authentic gold doubloons on his parents’ property, an exciting occurrence, foreshadowing what was to come. These...
Azan Delivers Value in Short Campana
Roberto Pelayo Duran has enjoyed a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, the French/Spanish...
Capture a Mild Capadura for Yourself
According to the internet, the Capadura brand has a history that stretches back into the late 1800’s. In its present form, Capadura is a brand purchased out of General Cigar that is imported and distributed by Luba Cigars Corporation based in Miami. Luba Cigars is run by Ruth Elizabeth Batista, who spent much of her life in the production and marketing sides of the tobacco business in the...
The Russians Are Coming!!!
The Russians Are Coming was a 1966 comedic movie starring Alan Arkin, Brian Kieth and Carl Reiner about a Russian submarine running aground in Massachusetts during the cold war and it was entertaining in its day. But in 2011, a pair of Russians really arrived – on rented Harley Davidsons – to found a US expansion of their Russian cigar business. Maxim Privezentsev and Vladimir Roshchen...
Cremo Classic – A Pleasant Smoke
What can you say about a cigar company that was one of the premier brands at the turn of the century? Well, if you’ve never heard of Cremo, you might ask , which century? And the answer to that would be the 20th century. This is a brand that was one of the top selling cigars in the Untied States in the early 1900s. There was a factory in New York and sales were very high. Over the...
