Join us at the shop on Wednesday, June 9th, for this awesome in-store event from 3-7pm. Alex from Drew Estate will be coming with some crazy specials on awesome cigars and fantastic raffle prizes. Make plans to come down and take advantage of the promotional deals. You don’t want to miss this!!
Drew Estate Cigar Safari, Wow! Gregg and I just returned from a four day, three night stay with Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate in Estelle Nicaragua. Again, WOW! What a beautiful place to learn even more about cigars and the success of “The Rebirth of the Cigar.” We were honored to spend time with Jonathan a very humble man and meet the people behind the scenes. You all know and love Fabien and how much he has done to bring us to this brand of cigar, but there are so many more; Jesse the artist, a big teddy bear is amazing, a master of creativity, (love the pink shirt Jesse,) our tour guide and Nicaraguan resident, Pedro, who taught himself English to do this because he believed in Drew Estate. It’s encouraging to see what Drew Estate and so many other cigar manufacturers do for their country. But a couple, like Drew Estate, seem to go above and beyond and you can feel the love.
Jonathan took us through the 2nd largest plant (by two square feet) plantation, where they do everything from beginning to end, other than grow the tobacco themselves, that coming soon (can you say group trip?) . We were also able to visit the man himself, Orlando Padron at the Padron plant, where we witnessed Orlando rave about “the man,” Jonathan Drew. Remember people, he’s not one of their own, but because of the way he has embraced their country, their needs, beliefs and the dedication to the history of the cigar, he has been embraced by one of the all-time great families in this business. Check out the pictures in the gallery. I hope you enjoy them!
Last Friday, we celebrated with an in-store event and special 11th anniversary cigar dinner with Drew Estate and Joya de Nicaragua cigars. We’d like to thank each and every one of you who came out to celebrate with us. We had a fantastic turnout and an absolute blast and YOU are why we do what we do. Special thanks to Skip and Jen at Hennessey’s Carlsbad, and also to Fabien and Eric from Drew Estate for all the fun, and cigars.
We have photos of both events up in the gallery and on facebook. If you see pictures of yourself, tag them so your friends can see how much fun we all had. If you didn’t make it out, make plans to come to our next cigar dinner (details coming soon)!
Drew Estate has brought us the fabulous Joya de Nicaragua cigars and we are eager to share them with you at our upcoming in-store event and cigar dinner! If you haven’t tried one yet, you’re missing out. Below we’re posting a video from Joya de Nicaragua so you can find out more about this great brand of cigars.
Make plans to join us on Friday between 3-6pm and take advantage of special deals on Drew Estate and Joya de Nicaragua cigars. You’ll get a free cigar when you buy 4, or buy a box (or mix-match 20 cigars) and get 7 free cigars, a cutter and a hat!
On Friday, we’ll have some great specials on Drew Estate cigars, so we’d like to give you a little peek into cigar making. The two videos below are brief, but reveal some interesting facts about cigar production that we think you’ll enjoy seeing and all without having to spring for airfare to Nicaragua!
Drew Estate Production Salon
Drew Estate -- The Leaf
