Jonathan Drew can be a hard guy to track down at IPCPR, and a tour of the all the new products in the Drew Estate booth would be difficult to accomplish without numerous interruptions from customers and fans. Everyone’s looking for a few minutes of Jonathan’s time. So we took the pragmatic approach this year, […]
Cigar Safari: Fabrica Nica Sueño Tour
In this last Cigar Safari video, Skip Martin takes us on a tour of the Nica Sueño cigar factory, home of RoMaCraft Tobac. In addition to showing us through the efficiently designed circular factory, Skip discusses the RoMaCraft timeline, production levels, future plans, his unique philosophy on cigar manufacturing and the flow of tobacco through […]
Throwback Thursday: Steve Saka On Tobacco At Cigar Safari 2013
I don’t know how long “Throwback Thursday” has been a thing, but before people get tired of it, I’m using it to show some previously unpublished (and uncensored) video of Steve Saka from Cigar Safari 2013. This video covers some of the same ground as Wednesday’s video regarding Connecticut Broadleaf and Habano tobaccos, but from […]
Cigar Safari 2014: Drew Estate II (DE-2)
This year Cigar Safari got rolling with a visit to the brand new Drew Estate II (DE-2) facility across the street from the original Drew Estate factory. Jonathan Drew and Nick Melillo lead the tour of the 64,000 square foot expansion that they’ve dedicated to storing, curing, sorting and aging their growing supply of tobacco. […]
Drew Estate Cigar Safari: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Tobacco
As a fan of bourbon, one of the things that most intrigued me about my recent trip to Nicaragua on Drew Estate’s Cigar Safari tour was something so experimental, there aren’t even pictures of white-banded cigars with code names floating around the gossipnet yet. In recesses of the Drew Estate compound there are a couple […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 18
It’s time again for another issue of Brian’s The Week In Smoke. What’s the deal with all the Week in Smokes lately, you ask? Good question. The answer is as simple as this: the collection of interesting one-offs I’ve been saving for The Week In Smoke has gotten a little out of control. It’s time […]