Portraits: Eladio Diaz
My favorite people in the cigar business are the ones you don’t know about. For many, Eladio Diaz is just that. Prior to Davidoff’s Oro…
Portraits: George Rico
There’s been the world’s largest cigar, a factory in Miami, controversy over guns and children on a box and a lot of other cigars in between….
Portraits: Luis Falto
There aren’t a whole lot of people that entered the cigar business in 1995 that are still around. It’s not that 20 years in the…
Portraits: Ivan Fajardo
Born in Jalapa, Nueva Segovia in 1977, Ivan Fajardo started in the tobacco business when he was 19-years-old. His first job was as a buncher…
Portraits: Fred Rewey
Fred Rewey woud prefer you not take him seriously. That’s at least the general impression you get from Rewey’s online descriptions of himself. Rewey is…
Portraits: Noel Rojas
At the 2013 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show there was a crowd of people constantly surrounding a corner of the larger House of Emilio. In…
Portraits: Clint Aaron
Clint Aaron started working on blends for 262 Cigars back in 2008. Back then, 262 wasn’t even the planned name. Trademark issues forced Aaron to…
Portraits: Tom Lazuka
If you weren’t in the midwest, you probably had not heard of Tom Lazuka when Asylum Cigars was first announced. He was a former sales…
Portraits: Sean Williams
A few weeks ago, it was announced that El Primer Mundo would be taking back its own distribution, which had been handled by PDR Cigars…
Portraits: Hirochi Robaina
Later this month, Hirochi Robaina will kick off the much-anticipated tour to promote HR, the new cigar developed by Robaina and Cubanacan, the Nicaraguan-based company…
Portraits: Steve Ysidron
Steve Ysidron has a concept right now that makes sense. Go into a factory, find tobacco that is more or less leftovers, outcasts and the…
