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This cigar podcast could save your or a loved one's life. Following his own mental health crisis, Adam Levine founded the League of Fat Bastards Cigars. The boutique Nicaraguan cigar brand gives away 40% of its profits to men's mental health initiatives; hosts events where men can get real about their lives; and encourages intentional discussions about mental health over cigars. Interview by Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.What is Boveda? League Of Fat Bastards Cigars recommends Boveda 2-way humidity control for wherever you store cigars. Boveda preserves the flavor and character of premium cigars by keeping them at ideal humidity. Boveda prevents cigars from drying out and mold growth. With Boveda in your humidor, you'll enjoy full flavor and a perfect smoke from every cigar. Feel better about storing cigars, use Boveda. Click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 00:00 This is Box Press00:24 How did the League of Fat Bastards Cigars get its name?00:45

Use Boveda to protect all the Lovely Cigars in your humidor, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 This vintage 1800s Wisconsin cigar brand has a new life thanks to owners Mike Gehm, Keith Archiquette, and Dylan Masse. The trio blends cigar that they love, and it turns out a lot cigar smokers love Lovely Cigars, too. Hear more about this boutique cigar brand that produces Elegante X2 Ain't They Lovely Cigar, The Bay City Cigar, and the No. 162. Interview by Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press01:36 First 2 years of a new business are rocky03:16 Gotta have a quality cigar, good marketing, and good relationship with tobacco shops04:27 Founders are regular cigar palate people05:00 Lovely Cigar brand is from the 1800s out of Green Bay, Wisconsin05:29 No.162 Lovely Cigar05:35 The new Lovely's Bay City Cigar06:19 Converting a great idea into tobacco stores adopting cigar lines12:41 What's ham-and-egging it?13:51 A delicious cigar to t

NEW CIGAR BRAND: Domain Cigars, whose flavor and construction are protected by Boveda. Use Boveda to protect the cigars in your humidor, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Domain Cigars is the crest of the third wave of cigar making. Fully vertically integrated. Craft. Innovative. If they can't produce a cigar, they won't make it anymore.This new guy in town was developed by Daniel Lance and his business partner, Esteban Disla, a master blender who has created cigars for 30 cigar companies. Domain will change the way you see cigars, including a new way to package cigars with Boveda 2-way humidity control. Lance only uses Boveda to keep his cigars, like Domain's new Neutron and Negentropy tasting and smoking great. Interview by Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:43 Esteban Disla experienced cigar man02:19 Third wave cigar maker is where the cigar industry is headed02:27 First cigar wave = Cuba embargo04:01 Second wave of

Protect your cigars from bad guys like mold and low humidity by using Boveda in your humidor, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Unlike a bad guy, his Maduro cigar won't kick you in the head. Discover Porto Real, actor Alex Estrella's boutique cigar brand. Porto Real cigars are tasty Dominican and Nicaragua blends that are affordable. Cigars are from $8 to $12.When playing a ne'er-do-well in a film or series, Alex would often smoke a cigar. (Hey, cigar smokers are not so bad!) So it's natural that the actor parlayed his love of smokes into a cigar biz. Alex and Boveda's Drew Emmer talk cigar storage and more at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:01 This IS the actor/producer Alex Estrella01:29 The actor who has a cigar brand and the cigar brand run by an actor02:31 Started in cigars when he started acting for TV03:05 Sampling the Porto Real Maduro cigar03:44 Maduro cigar that's not going to kick you in the head05:07 Living la vida loca

Protect the flavor and character of boutique cigars like PDR with Boveda. Click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Does the size of a cigar matter? Sure does for PDR founder Abe Flores. Find out if he prefers fatter stogies versus shorter, slimmer cigars. Then get cigar recommendations from this award-winning master blender. Looking for an accessible Cubanesque cigar? PDR (Puro Dominican Republic) blends Cuban traditions with boutique modern manufacturing . The cigar makers employ a complex tobacco rolling technique that originated in Cuba called “entubado.” The cigar roller rolls each filler leaf into a straw shape to fit a greater number of filler leaves into a PDR cigar, which results in amazing air flow.PDR's Flores talks with Boveda's Drew Emmer about protecting the condition of cigars at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press01:58 To buy instruments, I was selling cigars on the side03:36 Abe Flores already knew tech and marketing, needed to

Protect the flavor and character of artisan cigars with Boveda. Find out how to use Boveda in your humidor, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Cigar smokers in the Pacific Northwest, you made this Tampa cigar famous. Try the latest iteration of the Juan de Fuca cigar blended by Serafin de Cuba.Fourth generation cigar maker Arnoldo Serafin talks with Boveda's Drew Emmer about reviving forgotten cigar brands at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:09 Juan de Fuca cigars packaged with Boveda00:31 What is a Juan de Fuca cigar?00:47 Strait of Juan de Fuca in Pacific Northwest01:38 Why smoke a closed foot cigar01:56 Don Ramon 1917 Series cigar—cigar fit for a BOSS! Created to honor patriarch, Don Ramon Serafin, Jr. 02:18 How did you fall in love with cigars?04:23 Sweeter cigar, medium that's not too strong, not too harsh04:34 I'm a sucker for Cameroon wrappers06:00 How many fourth generation cigar makers are there?06:31 History of Tampa and ci

So they're ready for cigars right away, Brizard & Co. ships humidors with Boveda's specialty seasoning packets. Brizard airflow humidors have compartments that position Boveda above and below the cigars to surround them in the idea humidity. Find out how to use Boveda in your humidor, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Brizard & Co. makes premium cigar accessories from exotic woods and genuine leather. Manufacturing in Southern California allows Brizard & Co. to control the quality of their woodwork, leather work, and metal work.Founder of Brizard & Co., Cyril Brizard talks proper cigar storage with Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press01:05 People connect over cigars01:37 Brizard & Co. makes no mass produced humidors03:17 Southern California maker of high-end humidors, cigar cases, and lighters03:48 Brizard & Co. golf cigar collection04:09 Brizard & Co. luxury cowboy cigar collection06:09

Whether you're holding on to a $100 Sans Pareil Gold or a value smoke, preserve that cigar's flavor with Boveda, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Sans Pareil is pronounced sahn-pah-rehy. (BTW, Boveda is pronounced boh-veh-dah.) Sans Pareil is French and translates to "without equal or unparalleled." Fitting for four lines of ultra-premium cigars that command $38 to $100 a stick. Should you save a Sans Pareil for a special occasion? Or work celebratory sticks into your cigar rotation? If you smoke luxury cigars regularly, do they lose their panache? David J. Swinburne, CEO and co-founder of Sans Pareil cigars talks luxury cigars and new releases with Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:12 NEW Green line of Sans Pareil Cigars01:51 Shout out to the Cedar Room Fine Cigars & Lounge, Scottsdale, Arizona02:54 Re-release of Super Lancero in the Sans Pareil Gold line04:48 New Sans Pareil Toro cigar, The Jeddo05:09 W

What's in your humidor? Protect it with Boveda—sign up for cigar care tips here: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 A whole lotta smart cigar storage in this one. Along with its popular 80-count model, CigarBros personal humidors are now available in 4 new sizes to keep 5, 10, 20, and 30 cigars. CigarBros founder Remon Mansour announced that retailers, like the online wine merchant, Wooden Cork are now carrying a prefilled CigarBros personal humidor. This heavy-duty black foam cigar vault is reusable but comes prefilled with premium cigars, like Oliva, Romeo Y Julieta, Acid, and more. Find out about how this family-owned humidor biz has taken off since CigarBros patented a stand-alone climate-controlled humidor to keep cigars fresh and well stocked for non-traditional cigar sellers, like gas stations, convenience stores, liquor stores, lounges, casinos, golf courses, etc.Remon talks to Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:31 Luck is when ha

If $60 cigars are stored with Boveda, shouldn't yours be? Click here to receive cigar care tips: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 UberLuxury cigars are a new segment of premium cigars created by Jeremiah Meerapfel. His family's legendary Meerapfel Cameroon tobacco is touted as the most exclusive wrapper in the world. This fifth generation cigar man talks how his family evolved cigar smokers beyond Cubans toward New World Cigars (AKA cigars originating from any country that isn't Cuba!). Meerapfel and Boveda's Drew Emmer talk cigars and Boveda at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press02:40 Responsibilities come with being the patriarch of a family, a company04:33 Amassment is a word06:34 Combatting Cuban cigars with non-Cuban New World cigars08:00 Cigars followed the same trajectory as wine08:55 Sad that my father isn't next to me13:32 How the cigar craft has changed over 20 years16:07 Say NO to big cigar ring gauges17:15 Wrapper is the most expensive part of a ciga

Keep the cigars you buy from drying out, use Boveda. Click here to get cigar care tips: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Mo reveals a new release for Patina Cigars! Founder of Patina Cigars, Mo Maali believes a cigar is a two-hour vacation, a cost-effective psychiatrist session, and a barrier-breaker. Cigars ARE the best way to bring people together, including Mo and Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:14 A COVID podcast that launched Patina Cigars01:30 NEW RELEASE: Patina Oro de Nicaragua cigar02:17 Unique cigar wrapper to try03:07 Dream of owning your own cigar line?04:27 Nicaraguan American supplies tobacco—shout out to cigar makers Raul Disla and Gus Cura 05:06 Giving Boveda a try when you store cigars05:48 Shout out to James Brown of Black Label Trading09:39 Patina represents age and beauty17:14 New to cigars? Or so-so on Connecticuts? Pick up a Patina Connecticut cigarWhat is Boveda? Boutique cigar brands like Patina Cigars protec

Cigar loving wise men (and women) preserve the flavor, aroma, and character of sticks with Boveda, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Foundation is no longer making the El Güegüense cigar nor the original Wise Man Maduro blend. In their place, find out what Nicholas Melillo, Foundation founder has in store for lovers of this popular boutique brand of thoughtfully blended, hand-rolled cigars. See what's new for Foundation cigars with Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:12 Nick Melillo riffs on Robert Caldwell02:58 Connecticut gets a bad rap04:32 Shout out to Foundation's Olmec cigars and Cigar Jones, Minnetonka, Minnesota06:01 Hiphop and cigars07:01 Foundation music video by The Reminders filmed in A.J. Fernandez factory, on the fields 08:01 Worked cigar retail in Hamden, Connecticut08:26 Discontinuing El Güegüense cigar09:56 New Foundation cigars The Wise Man Maduro and Corojo15:57 PCA 2025 trade show April 11-14

Long Live the King! Learn how to preserve cigars with Boveda, click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 After running Caldwell Cigar Co., for a decade, Robert Caldwell and co-founder, Juan Jaramillo sold the company to Laudisi Enterprises. How will your favorite Caldwell cigars, like Blind Man's Bluff and Anastasia be affected? Find out directly from Robert himself. By acquiring the boutique cigar brand, Laudisi is branching out from the premium pipes and pipe tobacco arenas. Catch the whole story with Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:33 Caldwell Cigar founders sell their cigar company03:14 Smoking the Caldwell Long Live The Queen Maduro04:34 How do you go from being an owner-operated business to not?07:46 Is Robert Caldwell still running Caldwell cigars? 08:56 What's you sweet spot?10:40 Video bomb by Nicholas Melillo, Foundation Cigar Co. What is Boveda? Boutique cigars like Caldwells protect blends with Boveda 2-

Missing something from your cigars? Learn what humidity has to do with cigar flavors, click here to get Boveda emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Connoisseurs of fine wines who love cigars, this cigar talk is for you. Get in the know on Somm's limited-release boutique cigars. Somm is short for sommelier. Somm's lines are named after wines and blended to tap into your palate for wine and cigars. BDX is Red Bordeaux. BDX Blanc is White Bordeaux. Rioja Blend is inspired by the eponymous Spanish wine region. And the Premier Cru - Limited Edition is a rarified 3,000 release of cigars for wine lovers.Who knew sommeliers (pro wine experts) are also schooled in cigar tasting? Pick up 3 tips on how to taste your cigars better from Vlad Stojanov, founder of Somm Cigars. Hosted by Boveda's Drew Emmer at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry.00:00 This is Box Press00:22 How to correctly light a cigar AKA toast the foot of your cigar00:37 Light the edges of your cigar first03:33 First cigar? Cu

Never miss cigar care reveals. Click here for Boveda's email insider news: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Who are you gonna call to save a massive cigar collection you have to take possession of in a few weeks? Find what Michael Herklots did as he takes you through launching his storied cigar brand, Ferio Tego. Ferio Tego is behind Elegancia and Generoso cigars and the cigar maker that brought back best-selling legendary cigar lines, including Metropolitan. Michael is the co-founder of Ferio Tego. He sat down with Drew Emmer, Boveda's guru of strategic relationships at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pipe industry. 00:00 This is Box Press00:09 What cigar is Drew smoking? Ferio Tego 2023 Elegancia cigar06:12 Ferio Tego cigar launch06:38 Cigar lines predate the company09:48 Only 5 guys in the room could pull this off11:56 Cigar retailer, now a cigar brand owner14:16 Reach back and lend a hand up18:00 What's a boutique cigar brand?18:57 What does Ferio Tego mean?19:39 How many cigar brands does

Never miss cigar greatness. Click here for Boveda's email insider news: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 It's like having a smoke in a cigar lounge WITH 5 CIGAR NOTABLES. Light up you best celebratory cigar (perhaps La Flor Dominicana Andalusian Bull, rated #1 cigar of 2016 by Cigar Aficionado, BTW?) for this virtual smoke sesh featuring:- Cigar Aficionado Hall of Famer Litto Gomez, Co-owner of La Flor Dominicana (LFD)- Tony Gomez, LFD Vice President- Sean Knutsen, Boveda CEO- Tim Swail, Boveda Executive VP of Sales- Drew Emmer, Guru of Strategic RelationshipsOne of the top premium cigar brands, LFD creates some of the strongest smoking profiles and full-flavored Dominican cigars around. LFD is known for its consistency thanks to the cigar maker's vertical integration—from farming its own tobacco to producing its own cigars in its own factory. LFD's highly skilled artisanal cigar rollers produce distinctive cigar shapes and limited-edition designs. Recorded at PCA 2024, the preeminent event for premium cigar and pip

Good cigar talk? Learn more about cigar storage with Boveda. Click here to get emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Casa 1910—THE Cinco De Mayo cigar of choice!Add this cigar trip to your bucket list: Miami, Florida, Cinco De Mayo (Cinco De Dade!) for tequila and Casa 1910's new Mexigars—affordable bundled cigars that “encapsulate the essence of Mexico, using diverse seeds, tobaccos, and fermentations to create unique flavor profiles.” Manolo Santiago, co-founder of Casa 1910 cigars joins Boveda's Drew Emmer to discuss Mexico's storied tobacco history. Learn about Casa 1910's premium aged cigars, too, which are named after heroes, sheroes, and events celebrating the Mexican Revolution.00:00 This is Box Press01:05 La Coronela cigar has a lot of flavor transitions02:58 What's it like to start a new cigar company?03:33 Mexico has amazing tobacco03:49 Manolo is from Jalisco, Mexico—the land of tequila and Mariachi05:04 3 Casa 1910 premium cigar lines06:02 What's a Mexigar, the tasty affordable Mexican cigar?08:18 So

Learn about the sweat equity that goes into fire-curing tobacco for cigars. See baby tobacco plants grow and mature. And hear how a tobacco plant becomes cigar ready in this field trip to a tobacco farm on the central northern border of Tennessee with cigar connoisseur Rob Gagner and Tennessee realtor/historian Jennifer Davis. What is Boveda? Craft cigars brands and big name cigar companies protect their blends with Boveda 2-way humidity control—that brown pack that you find in the box with your cigars. Boveda preserves the flavor and character of premium cigars by keeping them at ideal humidity. At home, continue to use Boveda in your humidor to keep cigars well-humidified or they can be hard to light, burn to too fast or get moldy. With Boveda in your humidor, you'll enjoy full flavor and a perfect smoke from every cigar. Get more cigar tips and news from Boveda emails: https://hubs.la/Q01BLsBF0 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bovedausa/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BovedaInc Instagram: https://www.in

OpusX, Chateau Fuente, Julius Caeser, Cuesta-Rey, shall we go on? You wouldn't have Dominican cigars without the Dominican people.The mountainous agricultural Bonao region of the Dominican Republic, however, suffers from extreme poverty, an inadequate educational system, and poor water quality, which greatly affects people's health. Two giants in premium cigars—Carlos “Carlito” P. Fuente, Jr., chairman of Arturo Fuente Cigars and Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Cigar Company—set out to change all that. In the D.R., the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation (CFCF) has funded the creation of a 23-acre campus with a K-12 school, community kitchen, medical and dental clinics, sports facilities, an organic farm and fishery, and local infrastructure improvements for the region. Tony Kattengell, vice president of sales and marketing for The LEAGUE and Dellas Edmisten Jr, global technical manager for Infinera represent CFCF in this interview with Boveda's Drew Emmer. Learn how to give your time, talents, and tax

Ready to get metaphysical over cigars? "Everything is an experience," says sensory expert and cigar passionado Reinhard Pohorec. And what a vision quest this entrepreneur is on since he joined UberLuxury cigar brand Meerapfel as its vice president. You might recognize Reinhard as host of the live cigar podcast, Light 'em Up Lounge, where he talks to cigar insiders. Tables turn as Boveda's Drew Emmer interviews Reinhard to talk first cigars, work-life balance, and finding your purpose. What is Boveda? Luxury and craft cigars brands protect their blends with Boveda 2-way humidity control—that brown pack that you find in the box with your cigars. Boveda preserves the flavor and character of premium cigars by keeping them at ideal humidity. At home, continue to use Boveda in your humidor to keep cigars well-humidified or they can be hard to light, burn to too fast or get moldy. With Boveda in your humidor, you'll enjoy full flavor and a perfect smoke from every cigar. Get more cigar tips and news from Boveda emai