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Best explanation of a tobacco plant on the web! This cigar talk proves you don't have to spend a lot on a cigar to get a great smoke. Fuma cigars are made by repurposing the tobacco that's leftover after producing premium cigars. Hear how Ernesto Padilla (pronounced Pah-dee-yah) selects the best of what's left to craft Padilla fumas. Ernesto and Boveda's Rob Gagner discuss how blending tobacco for cigars is like grinding meat for hamburger. Are cigars on In-N-Out Burger's secret menu? Like any good sit-down in a smoking lounge, the conversation roams—from The Cold War and the Cuban Revolution to botany and the tobacco strength. Recorded in cigar mecca, Miami, Florida. Website: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmpJZGI3WmZSRTJic3VEYjhTa2dPNGx3V1k1Z3xBQ3Jtc0tsLXdqUXh2SUMzUFlfOTAzX3VKeElxRHI1T0owN3dCSE1NeGFJU00yR1NCd0FHTGxmVWUtbE1GODlsQnFhU3hWcjZxM1AyaUM0a2c0blBzUEY2ZWZzZHI5bWg0cXdtNGNDWDh1QTY2X3pKM3BHV0lOVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bovedainc.com%2F&v=izmJ8kmsY

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Join Boveda's Rob Gagner on a tour of Perdomo Cigars with the President and CEO of Perdomo Cigars, Nick Perdomo Jr. Learn about Rob's passion for Perdomo's Champagne 10th Anniversary Cigar, the secret behind why this Connecticut shade wrapped cigar is so creamy and how Nick Perdomo executes comparative tastings at Perdomo. Tune into Box Press in two weeks to catch Rob's cigar talk with Nick Perdomo Jr. and his son Nicholas Perdomo, III where they discuss all things Perdomo! Website: https://www.bovedainc.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bovedausa/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bovedainc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bovedainc/ Highlights from the Perdomo Tour: 00:00 Cold open 00:50 Great Perdomo cigar for bachelor parties and weddings 01:15 The best-selling Perdomo cigar that put his kids through college 03:40 Does the color of the wrapper tell you what a cigar will taste like? 04:19 Does a light wrapper mean a cigar will be mild? 06:16 Does the strength of a cigar mean how much nicotine

"We gotta put our pants back on. We'll be down there in a minute." Business start-up tip: even if you're already in your pjs, you get dressed when Carlos Fuente, Jr. invites you to a late-night dinner to talk packaging cigars exclusively with your new two-way humidity control. 2022 marks Boveda’s 25th anniversary! Learn how the award-winning innovation for humidors and cigar packaging came to be from Sean Knutsen, CEO and Tim Swail, EVP of Sales with Box Press host Rob Gagner. Website: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmkzd2JQUHprMkRsUG40Q3E3RkNEcnc3T1g2UXxBQ3Jtc0trLVNjY0xXdkg1UTJHM3ltV0hfME4xR0xvXzZYcWw0N1lhOGN4R09LdGxtVXFuNDdneUhmVjdXTTBGaXZ4M0lvMWhFX0VXdFVCMkFuZWVLNUJUeFpOS1B2dUdSMWpmVnpqbU9HZTNxVDZxako4VDdidw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bovedainc.com%2F&v=oQIgyFGkXU8 (https://www.bovedainc.com/) Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0FNMWNmWGJIZ2V5VG05RkE2aEpmZUM2eWVBQXxBQ3Jtc0ttOXdSSGx0enpoaThyZjAwSE5

2022 marks Boveda’s 25th anniversary! Learn how the award-winning innovation for humidors and cigar packaging came to be. This cigar podcast is a combo of “How It’s Made” and “The Food That Built America” with Sean Knutsen, CEO, Tim Swail, EVP of Sales and Box Press host Rob Gagner. Website: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2FQTXluU014N0thdXVSbmVPZHVmOFJTcW1Gd3xBQ3Jtc0tuMDVGNUo3MHNkYS0wSm13czBHcFZlc0pUdEhtTUNJNExicENSWjRiWXRVcVVmZGJGRjMzc2xhWGZYQ3kwcVFkdG1NNUh6VW42d1RpNTE0N0c2V1JvYTR6Z1l3TlAtM0Z5LXdlSVp6MzF6ZHBrVUgyMA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bovedainc.com%2F&v=BEqJk2glBtE (https://www.bovedainc.com/) Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFM5SjBleUszY3FNclVoWTd5eVhkbzdFd1FQQXxBQ3Jtc0tuT2U0eUVjMXhHMmYtalBIRklNa0ZJdjRqdDV5WHk1ckFYbnNlV29NakUxUEtNWXA5c1cwc0tBaklvTEJJVVJlNlhqMGhPZTYydEdUMmp4R2E4a1JfaFdjOUN3NHlrU3VjU3hLMDBkNlNhTEVqNXNHYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbovedausa%2F&v=BEqJk2glBtE (

Ease into your own leather recliner and grab a smoke with Boveda’s Rob Gagner and AdVentura Cigars’ Henderson Ventura. This cigar talk meanders as many do at a smoke lounge delving into hobbies, hammocks, never-will-I-evers, book recommendations for guys and your mom’s cooking. Filmed on location at The Terrible Cigar Club, South Miami’s largest outdoor terrace and indoor cigar lounge and public cigar shop, which also features an online monthly cigar subscription. Henderson hails from a tobacco family. For two decades, his father William Ventura worked for Davidoff. In 2007, William launched his own business, Tabacalera William Ventura. Henderson is the general manager of this family cigar business. In addition to the AdVentura cigar brand, which Henderson Ventura created with Marcel Knobel, the factory also produces premium long fillers for many other boutique D.R. brands, including Caldwell Cigars and La Barba. Website: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqblAzZVN

It’s like a 12-minute immersive experience in a cigar escape room! Join us as we search for unicorns, never-released samples and private blends in Willy Herrera’s cigar stash. Willy is one big dude—literally and figuratively—in premium cigars. The master blender for Drew Estate combines tobaccos to maintain consistency among legacy lines and to create new releases for the cult cigar brand. His authentic Cuban influence led to the creation of the eponymous Herrera Estelí lines, which include a Habano, Norteño and Brazilian Maduro. The Herrera Estelí Miami is crafted by "Level 9" rollers from Cuba at El Titán de Bronze Cigars, which is the oldest remaining Fabrica in Miami’s Little Havana. His family-owned cigar factory is where Willy learned the craft of premium cigars. Filmed on location in at El Titán de Bronze with Boveda’s host Rob Gagner. Find the missing cigars and solve tobacco mysteries, listen to these highlights: • 00:00 Cold open • 00:24 Cigar lovers visit Miami’s Little Haven • 02:03 Playing Hot-

How do you judge a cigar? Focus on a cigar’s flavor, balance, construction and clean finish suggests HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. A cigar with a clean finish won’t leave you with a weird taste in your mouth afterward—what smokers call ashtray mouth.  Native Cuban Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars in Havana. “To me, Cubans, when they are right, when you have a really good Cuban cigar, there’s nothing that you can compare with. So now in Nicaragua, we at HVC, we want to replicate that.”  Filmed on location at HVC headquarters in Doral, Florida with Boveda’s Rob Gagner.  Snow, cows and how to start your own boutique cigar company:  00:00 Cold open 03:05 Blending cigar tobacco is like creating a recipe 03:19 Look for flavor over strength when choosing a cigar 03:48 What cigars does HVC make? 05:56 A Cuban moves to Wisconsin 10:33 From Wisconsin to Nicaragua and AGANORSA  12:55 Why rolling a cigar at home is never as good as the premium

Take a trip to Cuba in less than five minutes with HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. See first editions, Cigar Aficionado top cigar of the year and more as Reinier opens up his personal humidor to Box Press host Rob Gagner. Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars from Cuba’s capital city, Havana. Filmed on location in Miami, Florida. Full interview with HVC Reiner Lorenzo is coming soon. Cigar lovers, subscribe to the Boveda Box Press channel, so you don’t miss it! What’s in his humidor along with Boveda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=0s (00:00) Cold open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=56s (00:56) What’s the most flavorful Cuban cigar on the market? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=81s (01:21) What is Rob Gagner’s favorite Cuban cigar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=109s (01:49) Is it true that this cigar has no aftertaste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=150s (02:30) What

A true crime cigar story! Thieving jacka$$es sledgehammer their way into the back of a humidor and make off with $150,000 worth of limited-edition cigars BEFORE the owner had a chance to insure his new warehouse. His next move after installing high-tech security? Craft a new boutique cigar called La Mandarria, which translates to THE SLEDGEHAMMER. Hear the backstory from Casa Cuevas Cigars’ Luis Cuevas Jr. and Alec Cuevas. In 2022, the Dominican cigar company rereleased the cigar blends that disappeared in the 2019 theft as the Flaco Habano and Flaco Maduro. The father and son duo smoke 7 x 43 Flacos with the Box Press host Rob Gagner. Shot on location at Miami’s Empire Social Lounge. Take a moment to enjoy South Florida’s cigar lifestyle—relax and listen to good stories over good cigars with good company. When you head to Miami for cigars, stop in at Empire Social Lounge and tell them Boveda sent you: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3NZZVAyYjMtOFlVLXVuQ3M5

The first stop on the Miami cigar scene! Boveda’s Miami cigar tour features acrobats, a new celebrity cigar, stink bugs and other spine-tingling tales from cigar legend Jack Toraño. Espinosa Cigar’s brand ambassador gives host Rob Gagner a Knuckle Sandwich, the new Guy Fieri cigar. Hear how the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives star launched his stick. Private jet to Puerto Rico. Mongo release party. Cadre of chefs. BAM! Shot on location at Miami’s Empire Social Lounge. Take a moment to enjoy South Florida’s cigar lifestyle—relax and listen to good stories over good cigars with good company. When you head to Miami for cigars, stop in at Empire Social Lounge and tell them Boveda sent you: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnNWcWIwbXpEelZvaTdIbGktSFg1YzlxcDVqZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttbGgtd1dYNURWR1VHYktLZzFRYnJ6SThlWUhmRExmVU5SRFUxRWZRLWNwT1d6MHppSW5TMmtpaS1YMFkyZDU5R2hDWnMyMVNTcV9LWFZxclRsazM5MzBTcFVqN0JqdHd5cUd3V0JUSkxqcDVkWkdRUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fempiresociallounge.com&v=RwH

Coming to you from the U.S. hot bed of cigars, Miami, Florida! Catch the new Box Press series as Boveda's Rob Gagner goes deep with Miami cigar legends, including: • Nick Perdomo, Jr. and son Nick III, Perdomo Cigars • Henderson Ventura, Ventura Cigar Company • Robert Caldwell, Caldwell Cigar Co. • Reinier Lorenzo, HVC • Jack Toraño, Espinosa Cigars • Ernesto Padilla, Padilla Cigars • Luis Cuevas Jr. and his son Alec, Casa Cuevas Cigars Miami's a lit locale for cigar lovers. Plan a trip for sticks with your smoking buddies to visit Miami's cigar lounges and take a tobacco factory tour. Remember to pack Boveda Humidor Bags to safely transport souvenir cigars home from vacations. Boveda preserves the oils and sugars in the tobacco until you're ready to smoke Miami's best cigars. Stock up on Boveda Humidor Bags here: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTQwdlBWOWJiak55bkFsYTcycHk2UVFEY05vQXxBQ3Jtc0tsQ0ViVmlvQUdVVEVsWmtVTnd2dWRnYVowV1UtbTlQckZseG1PTGRyQ2NrUWIxdHpTV21k

Unicorn chasers, this one’s for you! Think you’re missing out not smoking Cuban cigars? Get your hands on these new small-batch sticks from Lampert, which were mistaken for premium Cubans by cigar lovers around the world. Blended by current GM of Mombacho Cigars, SOTL Indiana Ortez, these fine cigars sold out at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas. With the last cigar box in the house, Founder Dr. Stefan Lampert joined Boveda’s Rob Gagner for a short Robusto. Highlights from this European cigar podcast include: 00:00 Cold open 01:42 How to retrohale a cigar 03:24 Who blends Lampert’s boutique cigars? 05:03 Do smaller cigars get the better tobacco leaves? 09:32 How many lawyers does it take to make a cigar? 10:37 Where can you buy Lampert Cigars in the United States? 12:45 Blending cigars with construction and environmental law 16:51 Does Lampert Cigars have a Connecticut wrapper? 17:08 Cigar smokers around the world taste test Lampert Cigars 21:00 Do Europeans prefer Cuban cigars? 28:35 What cigar is reminiscent of

Are you overwhelmed when you visit a tobacco shop’s humidor? Approach the tobacconist to help you find the perfect cigar for you. Next, learn how to use all of your senses to enhance your smoking experience. Boveda’s Rob Gagner was shocked by what can influence your opinion of a cigar. Amaze your cigar buddies with tips from sensory expert Reinhard Phorec, host of cigar podcast, Light ‘Em Up Lounge. Recorded at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas. Learn how to enjoy cigars better in this cigar podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRLY3Ok_tw&t=0s (00:00) Cold open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRLY3Ok_tw&t=321s (05:21) Why retailers should break from the script when you’re at the register https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRLY3Ok_tw&t=588s (09:48) What cigar shops can learn from the hospitality industry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRLY3Ok_tw&t=1419s (23:39) A professional cigar taste tester shares how to fully taste cigars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRLY3Ok_tw&t=1799s (29:59) Try thi

Steelers fans, light up an Ike Taylor cigar! Before retiring in 2015, Ike won two Super Bowl® rings during his 12-year career with Pittsburgh. Now the former NFL® player has launched a premium cigar called 1OFAHKINE (pronounced one of a kind). Working with black-owned cigar brand, Howard G Cigars, Ike sampled 40 different tobaccos to develop the blend, which is in the All Pro Series. Ike and boutique cigar company founder Howard Gumbs joined Boveda’s Rob Gagner at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas.  Cigar podcast highlights include:   (2:28) Shout out to Corona Cigars on Sand Lake! (3:22) The cigar man who knows his bacon (4:40) What new cigar smokers need to know before they visit a cigar shop (5:49) Life after the NFL®  (8:48) What young Ike Taylor learned from hanging out in cigar lounges (9:18) Why Ike Taylor partnered with Howard G Cigars (10:40) Working with tobacco is like raising a kid (11:05) Origin story of the BIPOC cigar company Howard G (11:25) The late cigar legend and pianist Avo&n

Got a NFW cigar story to share? This proves that in-store herfing leads to unexpected mash-ups and good couch for a cigar podcast! Hear the whole cigar lounge tale and more as Warfighter Tobacco Company’s Jon Simons and Scott Jansen join Boveda’s Rob Gagner at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas.  Highlights from this armed forces cigar podcast include:   (2:28) What Warfighter cigars are they smoking? (5:07) Why do cigar smokers taste wild flavors in cigars? (6:06) What’s a trifecta cigar smoking experience? (7:12) THE BEST COMEBACK TO WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE CIGAR?! (8:34) How did Warfighter Tobacco Company get started? (12:55) How service members crowdsourced Warfighter into tobacco shops (16:44) Why is the Warfighter cigar called Garrison? (17:48) What’s the difference between Warfighter’s Garrison and Field cigars? (18:58) What do Warfighter Tobacco’s calibers mean? (19:59) What’s Warfighter’s Minutemen cigar like? (20:45) Good name for a pandemic cigar—The Dumpster Fire! (28:30) THE BEST CIGAR SHOP S

When the world throws you a curve, lean into mentors, then pivot. For this elite boutique cigar maker, that meant revitalizing the c brand. Abe Flores has embraced the roots of the D.R.’s cigar lineage; simplified his tobacco blends; halved the number of cigars his Tamboril factory produces; and picked up business advice from cigar legends.  Talking to Boveda’s Rob Gagner at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas, the cigar entrepreneur shares what’s next as PDR nears its 20th anniversary. This cigar podcast’s highlights include:   (6:31) Best place to buy Cuban cigars in Europe (8:13) What cigars you should try if you go to Cuba (10:50) How COVID affected the cigar industry (12:33) How smoking cigars influences what you do now for fun  (15:05) What to watch out for before investing in a vacation property if you’re a cigar smoker (17:20) You can rent Abe Flores’s apartment in the D.R. on Airbnb! (17:29) Dating advice for cigar aficionados—find a mate who likes cigars (or at least, doesn’t mind them) (20:31

So what if a kid gets kicked out of kindergarten and fourth grade and tenth grade? He can still succeed—and even earn a master’s degree and make the big bucks in financial services! It’s about what you learn from setbacks that counts. Micky Pegg’s gone from Capitol Hill to tobacco sales to mutual funds, then back to cigars again. In 2018, this professional chameleon and certified tobacco sommelier launched the boutique cigar brand, All Saints Cigars. Listen to this cigar talk with Boveda’s Rob Gagner as he and All Saints founder share the boxworthy Habano Dedicación at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas. This cigar podcast’s highlights include:   (1:50) Discovering that your great-great-grandfather ran a legendary tobacco shop  (3:07) Delivering cigars to senators while they conferenced with POTUS (4:30) Selling cigars, then managing Georgetown Tobacco (7:55 ) Blending All Saints Cigars (8:31) Accidental cigar run that became All Saints’s Solamente (11.09) Trademarking St. Francis for a cigar release (12:49

National treasure? More like an international treasure! Hiram & Solomon is sold worldwide as the official cigar representing Freemasons. Hear Masonic theories debunked, Freemasonary history revealed and fake cigar ops foiled. What’s the “Da Vinci Code” on the cigar brand founded by Masonic Brother, Fouad Kashouty? Find out with Boveda’s Rob Gagner from Fouad and his wife, Romy for a smoke at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas.  You don’t have to be a Mason to buy Hiram & Solomon Cigars, which include Enter Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Shriner, Traveling Man, Veiled Prophet, Grand Architect and Master Mason. Curamus is the latest cigar release in the Hiram & Solomon Grand Master cigar line.  Hiram & Solomon protects its premium cigars by packaging with Boveda. You can protect your cigars just like cigars makers. Preserve your passion with Boveda, makers of 2-way humidity control for cigars, easy seasoning for wood humidors, humidor bags and the NEW Humidor Starter Kits. Shop Boveda for cigars here: h