Owner of one of my local B&Ms
bacon.jay
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I stopped into my north B&M with a buddy of mine after the Cavs game today and the owner, Darrin Hildebrand was back from his trip down south to Nicaragua.
The last time I was at the shop, he was still down south, and the guy minding the shop while Darrin was away told me he was meeting with Nestor Plasencia, the maker of such brands as Cuba Libre and one of Nicaragua's biggest cigar-tobacco growers, to buy rolling stock. Well, I asked Darrin how his trip went, and he started telling me about how he got to hang out with Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate Cigars at his house!!
I also asked him how the meeting and the buy went with Nestor Plasencia and he said it was a lot of fun, got to hang out with all of them while he was down there, and talked about how his four cigar factory tours, box factory tour, and tobacco plantation tour went. He came back with 50 lbs of rolling tobacco in a suitcase, and his next trip down will be in March he thinks.
I just thought I'd share the story with you guys because I thought it was interesting. I haven't had the opportunity to try any of his blends yet, but I have several in my humidor resting and aging, and hopefully this coming spring and summer I will crack one out and try it.
The last time I was at the shop, he was still down south, and the guy minding the shop while Darrin was away told me he was meeting with Nestor Plasencia, the maker of such brands as Cuba Libre and one of Nicaragua's biggest cigar-tobacco growers, to buy rolling stock. Well, I asked Darrin how his trip went, and he started telling me about how he got to hang out with Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate Cigars at his house!!
I also asked him how the meeting and the buy went with Nestor Plasencia and he said it was a lot of fun, got to hang out with all of them while he was down there, and talked about how his four cigar factory tours, box factory tour, and tobacco plantation tour went. He came back with 50 lbs of rolling tobacco in a suitcase, and his next trip down will be in March he thinks.
I just thought I'd share the story with you guys because I thought it was interesting. I haven't had the opportunity to try any of his blends yet, but I have several in my humidor resting and aging, and hopefully this coming spring and summer I will crack one out and try it.
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To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure I know where Beachwood is, so no, but my buddy told me about a really big shop in Avon Lake that was pretty nice that he and his girlfriend went to on New Years Day. I usually go to Sandusky Bay Cigars from my first post, or to a small one in Mansfield, and I've been a couple times to another in the North Olmstead/Cleveland area that's pretty nice called Cigar Cigars.
Sometime within the next couple months a few of the other forum members and I are going to go to one over in Akron that Kuzi frequents and have a herf. Maybe you should look into it if you haven't already?
EDIT: Googled Cousins and Beachwood and seem to remember seeing it on Poynt when I was trying to find a shop up thataway, but ended up going to Cigar Cigars because it was closer. Is that your usual shop and do you live in the area?