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Perdomo Esteli

Cigar Weekly Contributng Editor (and District Sales Manager at Intel Corporation) Neil Noffsinger recently went on a tour of Perdomo’s facilities in Esteli, Nicaragua. He’s written a wonderful account of it on Cigar Weekly, which I encourage everyone to read in full. Here’s some snippets: “Nick Perdomo, Jr. decided many years ago that he wanted to be [...]

Day Two Another amazing day at the Perdomo Cigars factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. After a terrific breakfast, we headed back to the factory for a tour of the cigar box manufacturing facility. The tour was conducted by a 31-year old Nicaraguan called “David”. He showed tremendous passion for the entire process and went into lots [...]

What a day! Here’s a quick blow-by-blow. Videos will start to follow when I get a chance to edit them over the next couple of weeks. After a terrific breakfast that included “gallo pinto” (“speckled rooster”), the unofficial national dish of Nicaragua, which is basically rice and pinto beans, fried separately then mixed together, we [...]