by PCA | Aug 7, 2024 | Feature
PCA The Magazine: Share a bit of your background with us.Stefan Lampert: Aside from being the founder of Lampert Cigars + Rum, I am a lawyer with a focus on regulatory and environmental law. One of my passions has always been to make great cigars. I started the...
by PCA | Jul 31, 2024 | Feature
PCA | July 31, 2024 The Oliva family’s roots run deep in the soil of Cuba and Nicaragua. Patriarch Melanio Oliva began growing cigar tobacco in Pinar del Rio, Cuba in 1886. The family tradition continued with his son Facundo, who passed the torch to Gilberto...
by PCA | Jul 29, 2024 | Feature
The Summer of 2024 has arrived. The last time we entered June through September without a PCA trade show the following events were happening: Belarusians Protest for Fair and Free Elections – On August 9, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, a man known as...
by PCA | Jul 24, 2024 | Feature
For many cigar companies in the Dominican Republic, each year’s Procigar Festival offers an opportunity to debut a new cigar release. For those at E.P. Carrillo, there was a newsworthy headline, but it was regarding something perhaps even more important than a premium...
by PCA | Jul 22, 2024 | Feature
As a lifelong New Yorker, I’m very familiar with the saying “A dollar and a dream.” It was coined by the New York State Lottery years ago and now has become a popular saying with a bigger meaning than just buying a lottery ticket. A dollar and a dream now means taking...
by PCA | Jul 16, 2024 | Feature, Trade Show
Spring is, for pipe smokers of refined taste (just my opinion, mind you), prime season for breaking out the Virginia tobaccos we’ve kept aging in the vault all through the long, dark days of cold weather. For this pipe smoker, spring is the best season to be alive—a...
