Please browse our selection of My Father cigars at your leisure. It’s no mystery why so many ask him for blends, and why cigars for Tatuaje, L'Atelier, San Cristobal, La Aroma de Cuba, and others can all trace their roots back to Don Pepin.Ĭuban style cigars, made from tobacco grown in the rich soil of Nicaragua… the master made his choice, and now the most discriminating aficionados hang on every puff. When it happened again in 2015, this time for the My Father Le Bijou 1922 line, it made him a legend. When the company’s Flor de las Antillas line earned Cigar of the Year honors in 2012, it cemented Don Pepin’s place at the top of the industry and among the world’s best blenders. In fact, it was a blend made by Don Pepin’s son Jaime that provided the name for the rebranded company: My Father Cigars. Production was moved to Nicaragua and the venture took on a new name. Now the rest of the cigar world did, too. Tatuaje Cabinet Tainos hit #4 on Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 list in 2005, earning 93 points from the judges, and Don Pepin was on his way up. First, it was a small operation, but after a blend produced for a young rock musician named Pete Johnson took off, everything changed. A full bodied, bold smoke, the dark smokes are handmade in Nicaragua and expertly rolled using a spicy Nicaraguan binder, perfectly aged Nicaraguan long fillers, and. In 2002, the El Rey de Los Habanos cigar company was started. Part of the acclaimed My Father Le Bijou 1922 series, the Churchill is a son’s homage to his father cigar extraordinaire Don Pepin Garcia. He helped blend cigars for legendary brands like Cohiba, Partagas, and Montecristo.Įventually, it was time to leave the nest, and make a new home where so many Cubans have found a warm welcome: Miami. As the decades rolled by, “Don Pepin,” as he came to be known, ultimately became a Tabaquero Maestro (Master Blender), and was also a “teacher of teachers” on the topics of blending and rolling cigars. In fact, he won the Productivity Prize for rolling 320 Julietas in just four hours.īut of course, there’s so much more to making cigars than just… making cigars. Often referred to as a “magician” by the Cuban press, he could produce ridiculous quantities of excellent cigars in record time. Over the years, he honed his skills as a torcedor (cigar roller) until they were otherworldly. He worked at his uncle’s factory in Baez, Cuba. Whatever the case, the dark, oily Churchill is every bit as strong as it looks with heavy notes of chocolate, leather and spice, but the cigar shows refinement and grace, revealing a profound butterscotch sweetness and light hint of cinnamon.In 1961, José Garcia was eleven, and he already had his first real job in cigars. Or maybe Garcia views this all-Nicaraguan blend as the crowning jewel of the entire My Father portfolio. Perhaps it’s a reference to the Cuban-seed Nicaraguan wrapper. The cigar has shade changes near the torpedo cap, while the lower portion. “Le Bijou” is French for “the jewel,” but it’s unclear as to exactly what the jewel refers to. The Look: The box pressed torpedo My Father Le Bijou features the classic looking My Father band with a myriad of colors that is one of the most colorful in the industry and one of a few to utilize the color pink as its primary color. The unusual classification is more of an in-house grade ascribed by My Father Cigars than it is an official industrial term, but the dark tobacco sets the tone for this strong cigar, and the Churchill is a blockbuster of Nicaraguan flavor.Ĭreated by cigarmaker and Cigar Aficionado hall-of-famer José “Pepín” Garcia, the My Father Le Bijou 1922 was meant to honor Garcia’s father, who was born in 1922. You’ve heard of dark maduro wrappers and you’ve heard of even darker oscuro wrappers but have you ever heard of oscuro-oscuro? If you’ve ever had a cigar from the My Father Le Bijou 1922 line, then you’ve smoked one of these double-oscuro wrappers.
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