In my most recent trip to Nicaragua I was fortunate to attend Puro Sabor 2018. Puro Sabor is a celebration of the Nicaraguan cigar industry and the people who make it so wonderful. I had previously been to Nicaragua once before, in the fall of 2015, and I was so grateful to be able to go back again. Since there's so much to cover about this trip I'll break it into a series of different articles each covering different aspects of the trip itself. One theme that I hope you'll notice in all of these articles is the people. The people are the most important aspect of every piece of the cigar industry in Nicaragua. Nothing is more important to the industry than its people and it's the relationships that make the cigar industry in Nicaragua so beautiful and so wonderful.
Claudio Sgroi, former Master Blender and President of Mombacho Cigars and current Tobacco Industry Consultant is collaborating with Edgar Julian Sued, owner of Julián Sued & Compañía (Cigar Factory) for a series of three Limited Edition cigars.
Mombacho Cigars S.A. announced today the shipment of their upcomming cigar, Casa Favilli, named after the factory in which all Mombacho Cigars are made. The Mombacho Casa Favilli is the first cigar to use a Broadleaf wrapper grown in Nicaragua. The first shipment is being called a limited pre-release and will consist of 150 boxes of each vitola. Regular production will take place in 2019. Each comes in 12 count boxes and the vitolas are as follows: Robusto – 5 x 50 - MSRP $10.95, Toro – 6 x 52 - MSRP $11.95, Torpedo – 5 ½ x 52 - MSRP $12.95.
Spain marks the 15th country to receive distribution from Mombacho Cigars S.A. This new distribution comes through La Casa Del Tabaco SLU and begins January 2020. The new partnership begins with the company's Tierra Volcan and Liga Maestro brands, which they have already received.
Aging RoomAllArturo FuenteBlack Label Trading CompanyBodegaC.L.E.CamachoCAOChinnock CellarsClaudio SgroiCuban StockDrew EstateE.P. CarrilloE.P. CarrilloEdgar HoillEiroa by CLEEspinosaEzra ZionFeaturedFlor de GonzalezGran HabanoHammer + SickleIPCPRJonathan DrewJoya De NicaraguaLa Flor DominicanaMombachoMy FatherNomadO.S.O.K.OlivaOrtegaPadillaPura SoulRocky PatelStudio TobacSWAGTatuajeVentura CigarsVeritas
·Since the show, we had been publishing the various slideshows of the different booths we took pictures of. Here you can see the full list and click directly to the slideshow as the manufacturers are listed in alphabetical order.
MOMBACHO CIGARS CELEBRATES 11TH ANNIVERSARY GRANADA, NICARAGUA. – (21 February 2016). Hosted on a private island in Lake Nicaragua last...
German Engineered Cigars has announced their second regular production blend, RAUMZEIT. It was blended in collaboration with Claudio Sgroi, formerly...
GRANADA, NICARAGUA – July 19, 2016. Mombacho Cigars is excited to announce that it will roll out new branding over the second half of 2016; beginning with Liga Maestro which will be unveiled at the
upcoming IPCPR in Las Vegas (Mombacho Cigars: Booth #3818).
Claudio Sgroi has been the Master Blender of Mombacho Cigars for ten years. He had been president of the company since 2016 until earlier this year where he stepped down from that role and was replaced by Cam Heaps but had retained the role of Master Blender. Now, as of April 1, he will no longer have an active role in the company. The company has not announced a replacement.
The annual "Cosecha" release from Mombacho is being shipped to the United States, Europe, and Canada after a 7 week delay from Nicaraguan turmoil. The Coescha 2013 is the second of Mombacho Cigar's annual release which is a true vintage release, meaning the tobaco in these cigars is from the year 2013 and the cigars were actually rolled 4 years ago and have been aging.