We sat down with Hamlet Paredes to find out why he left a successful career in Cuba to start over with Rocky Patel Premium cigars.  The conversation includes everything from pairing recommendations to an explanation of why Hamlet's owes much of his success to his mother's insistence that he learn English even before he seriously considered leaving Havana behind.

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"BossaBossa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0001 - Why Hamlet Paredes left success in Cuba to start over with Rocky Patel Premium Cigars

The Cigar Snob team shoots the breeze, talking about the Super Bowl (spoiler alert: the Philapdelphia Geegles won the day), movies (spoiler alert: there's freaky fish sex in The Shape of Water) and travel to Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic (spoiler alert: there are cigars).
We also get into some Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Gran Reservas and talk about how hard various cigars kick you in the nuts.

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"BossaBossa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0013 - Super Bowl, Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Gran Reserva, Puro Sabor Cigar Festival

We recently joined a group of cigar retailers and cigar media for Viaje al Origen, a Davidoff-sponsored tour of the iconic company’s Dominican farming, fermentation and manufacturing operation in the Dominican Republic. The tours and the tastings that were sandwiched in between were, for the most, led by Klaas Pieter Kelner. He’s the son of Davidoff’s Henke Kelner. And at 27 years old, he’s coming into his own as an ambassador for the brand.

We got hooked up to some microphones for a quick chat about growing up around the cigar business and what it’s been like for Klaas to learn the ropes and become one of the Davidoff brand’s lead cigar evangelists.

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"BossaBossa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0014 - Davidoff's Klaas Kelner on growing up around cigars & learning to "preach" like dad Henke

Cigar Snob Magazine's Nick Jiménez hopped on a call to interview Steve Gherebean, one of the guys behind Hand Rolled, a documentary film about premium cigars. In the interview, Steve explains how the project was born, who's behind it, and how it has changed the way the filmmakers see handmade cigars and the people who make them.

Music in this episode:
"BossaBossa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0016 - Hand Rolled cigar documentary filmmaker Steve Gherebean

We mark Rocky Patel's birthday with some Vintage 2006 San Andreas, look back on ProCigar 2018, and administer our very own citizenship test to our art director Andy "El Yuma" Astencio. What is a mullet? Who is "The Duke"? What is a Grand Slam?

Join us as we smoke great cigars, talk the hottest new social media company, and stumble through our ridiculous high-stakes game show.

Music in this episode:
"BossaBossa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0017 - Rocky Patel San Andreas, Dominican cigar festival, and the Cigar Snob citizenship test

Join the team from Cigar Snob Magazine — along with our guests — as we share all manner of cigar snobbery. We'll talk travel, booze, the news of the day, and also recommend some of our favorite food, books, movies and products.

0001 - Why Hamlet Paredes left success in Cuba to start over with Rocky Patel Premium Cigars

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