Box Press

Box Press is a cigar podcast where talking about the cigars is secondary, says host Rob Gagner. Instead cigar smokers learn about the personalities and the people behind popular cigar brands. Today have a cigar with President and CEO Nick Perdomo Jr. and his son Nicholas Perdomo III, who is National Director of Sales.

They delve into running a family-owned business, working with your dad and farming tobacco as a vertically integrated cigar manufacturer. Filmed on location at Perdomo Cigars headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Tour Perdomo Cigars with Nick Perdomo Jr. and Boveda's Rob Gagner! The cigar fun continues, watch https://youtu.be/JeHzuQbwj9A

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Perdomo Cigars agricultural and manufacturing facilities are in Estelí, Nicaragua. The Perdomo family controls every process, from agricultural operations in the fertile valleys of the Estelí, Condega, and the famed Jalapa regions in Nicaragua to a distribution center in Miami, Florida. And the Perdomos have accomplished it by remaining debt-free.

Highlights from this interview with the makers of 10th Anniversary Champagne cigars, Nick’s Sticks and 10 more cigar brands include:

00:00 Cold open

07:46 Fathers and sons working together

10:50 Do you trust getting cigar recommendations from a younger cigar smoker?

15:26 Why you should have a second child

16:30 What’s the hardest part about cigar making?

18:58 When tobacco grows, it sounds like a bowl of Rice Krispies® cereal

20:15 What’s the most important aspect about growing tobacco?

24:14 The first thing to check if you want to farm tobacco

27:14 The truth about blending tobacco for cigars

41:47 Is a cigar rolling event really a dog and pony show?

44:23 Do ring gauges affect the flavor of a cigar?

53:48 The son influences the father: the inception of Perdomo Humidified Travel Bags

58:25 Employ the best people who are smarter than you are

To get great taste out of Perdomo cigars, keep Boveda cigar packs in your humidor. Innovators in 2-way humidity control for cigars, Boveda makes Humidor Starter Kits, travel cigar humidor bags, one-step hygrometer calibration kits, humidor seasoning and more.

Join Boveda's Rob Gagner on a tour of Perdomo Cigars with the President and CEO of Perdomo Cigars, Nick Perdomo Jr.

Learn about Rob's passion for Perdomo's Champagne 10th Anniversary Cigar, the secret behind why this Connecticut shade wrapped cigar is so creamy and how Nick Perdomo executes comparative tastings at Perdomo.

Tune into Box Press in two weeks to catch Rob's cigar talk with Nick Perdomo Jr. and his son Nicholas Perdomo, III where they discuss all things Perdomo!

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Highlights from the Perdomo Tour:

00:00 Cold open

00:50 Great Perdomo cigar for bachelor parties and weddings

01:15 The best-selling Perdomo cigar that put his kids through college

03:40 Does the color of the wrapper tell you what a cigar will taste like?

04:19 Does a light wrapper mean a cigar will be mild?

06:16 Does the strength of a cigar mean how much nicotine is in the tobacco?

06:40 First trip to a cigar shop? How to pick a cigar that won’t make you sick

07:24 The Perdomo cigar you might have a hard time finding at your smoke shop

07:55 Pairing a Perdomo with Aberlour A’bunadh Scotch

09:02 There’s no bad cigar

09:37 Why you should never fully retire: Aristides Garcia, head of fermentation

12:08 Hiring your mom

Catch More Cigar Talk from Boveda's Rob Gagner:

Get in the Zone, Modern Cigar Smokers (feat. Light ‘Em Up Lounge)

https://youtu.be/uzRLY3Ok_tw

Better Understand Your Cigar Tasting Palate (Feat. Klaas Kelner)

https://youtu.be/W-L976OtGlE

Blindfold Me, Light My Cigar and Make Me Do What?!

https://youtu.be/ZbuaKVQ6gA4

"We gotta put our pants back on. We'll be down there in a minute." Business start-up tip: even if you're already in your pjs, you get dressed when Carlos Fuente, Jr. invites you to a late-night dinner to talk packaging cigars exclusively with your new two-way humidity control.

2022 marks Boveda’s 25th anniversary! Learn how the award-winning innovation for humidors and cigar packaging came to be from Sean Knutsen, CEO and Tim Swail, EVP of Sales with Box Press host Rob Gagner.

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Rolls-Royce, Ichiro Suzuki and Boeing are just a few big names who've used Boveda for its moisture protection. Listen to the highlights:

00:43 Carlito just called, put your pants back on

04:29 Fuente's exclusive deal with Boveda

08:43 Visiting the Fuente factory and estate—Opus A

10:47 Boveda Sean Knutsen’s best cigar moment

11:25 Be prepared for nausea when you tour a cigar factory

14:18 Boveda revolutionized the cigar industry

18:25 How to work your way into a cigar trade show

20:09 Using an RV for guerrilla marketing

22:37 Apple started in a garage, Boveda began in a house in St. Paul

23:47 Smart tactics to get into an industry trade show

25:36 Boveda revolutionizes humidor seasoning and cigar storage

28:52 Why did Boveda change its name from Humidipak?

30:48 The world’s first two-way humidity control for desktop humidors

30:53 How do you pronounce Boveda?

31:57 How to properly store and age cigars at home

32:06 3 steps to protect cigars with Boveda

35:04 To enjoy the dynamic character of tobacco, care for cigars properly

36:20 Rolls-Royce Phantom humidor and Boveda

37:44 Subzero wine cellar humidor and Boveda

38:12 MLB baseballs and Boveda

40:56 Ichiro Suzuki and Boveda

41:48 MREs, alligator eggs, airplane parts and car components and Boveda

2022 marks Boveda’s 25th anniversary! Learn how the award-winning innovation for humidors and cigar packaging came to be. This cigar podcast is a combo of “How It’s Made” and “The Food That Built America” with Sean Knutsen, CEO, Tim Swail, EVP of Sales and Box Press host Rob Gagner.

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How did Boveda get started? Here are the highlights:

00:00 Cold open

03:04 Boveda radio driveway moment

09:10 Wanna come over for cigars and dinner?

09:56 Where did the idea of portable humidor humidity control come from?

10:27 See the original prototype of the first cigar pack

12:03 Before Boveda, most cigar smokers had to smoke cigars the day they were purchased

14:05 “Hey, do you guys want to go into business with me?”

15:08 Who invented Boveda?

15:18 Boveda Trivia: What does frosting have to do with Boveda?

15:51 See how Boveda packs are made

16:49 Boveda Trivia: What does packaged meat have to do with cigar humidification?

19:00 Boveda pitches Carlos Fuente Jr.

22:19 How to taste more flavors from a cigar

23:05 If this is just a humidifier, I want nothing to do with this.

30:38 Standing on a Boveda pack to prove its durability to Carlos Fuente Jr.

33:25 Carlos Fuente joins forces with Boveda

34:00 Invention of Boveda led to the evolution of cigar sampler packs

36:30 What high humidity can do to a cigar overnight

38:27 Inside Opus X packing room

38:32 Why Boveda makes different RHs for different cigars

43:47 Waiting for Carlos Fuente

Becoming the global leader in any category doesn’t happen overnight. Becoming the global leader in a category that didn’t even exist is even harder. But that’s what Boveda did and continues to do since 1997.

Today, millions of 2-way humidity control packets are shipped out each year around the world to protect premium cigars, regulate the environment of guitars, save the terpenes in cannabis, prevent brown sugar from clumping and solve other humidity problems in packaging.

To get great taste out of cigars, keep Boveda cigar packs in your humidor. Innovators in 2-way humidity control for cigars, Boveda makes Humidor Starter Kits, travel cigar humidor bags, one-step hygrometer calibration kits, humidor seasoning and more.

Shop Boveda here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...

Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives:

What Is Boveda?

https://youtu.be/-BkvLxlh2xQ

How to Season a Humidor in 1 Easy Step

https://youtu.be/OhYqighERdU?t=88

Using the Wipe Down Method to Season Your Humidor - Good Or Bad?

https://youtu.be/SBPa1rhXU_c

Ease into your own leather recliner and grab a smoke with Boveda’s Rob Gagner and AdVentura Cigars’ Henderson Ventura. This cigar talk meanders as many do at a smoke lounge delving into hobbies, hammocks, never-will-I-evers, book recommendations for guys and your mom’s cooking. Filmed on location at The Terrible Cigar Club, South Miami’s largest outdoor terrace and indoor cigar lounge and public cigar shop, which also features an online monthly cigar subscription.

Henderson hails from a tobacco family. For two decades, his father William Ventura worked for Davidoff. In 2007, William launched his own business, Tabacalera William Ventura. Henderson is the general manager of this family cigar business. In addition to the AdVentura cigar brand, which Henderson Ventura created with Marcel Knobel, the factory also produces premium long fillers for many other boutique D.R. brands, including Caldwell Cigars and La Barba.

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Why smoke alone when you can enjoy a cigar podcast? Amaze the guys at the tobacco shop with some tobacco trivia, including:

• 00:00 Cold open

• 02:57 Can you hear tobacco plants growing?

• 05:15 How often is tobacco harvested?

• 05:34 How long does it take cigar tobacco to grow?

• 08:31 Origin of boutique Dominican cigars

• 09:30 Boutique cigars Nicaraguan versus Dominican Republic

• 10:33 Why is cigar tobacco fermented?

• 17:52 The stories behind AdVentura cigars: The Royal Returns, The Navigator, The Explorer, The Conqueror, etc.

• 22:20 How long should you age premium cigars?

• 26:59 Dirt bikes!

• 33:00 Waterfall diving!

• 34:46 Sharks!

• 38:24 Henderson’s book pick: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

• 38:43 Rob’s summer book pick: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

• 46:40 Always ready for mom’s home-cooked Dominican meal

• 49:33 New venture—growing tobacco on a coffee farm in the mountains

• 53:24 Protecting cigars by shipping them with Boveda cigar packs

When you age premium cigars, do it at a slightly lower RH with Boveda 65% RH humidity packs. Boveda RH are available in four RH, so you can customize a humidor’s moisture level to your cigars, your climate. The easy way to season a wood humidor is using the Boveda Humidor Starter Kits. Boveda 2-way humidity control has been helping cigar lovers get the most enjoyment and flavor from premium cigars since 1997.

Shop Boveda here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...

Still got a third to smoke? Check out these over Boveda cigar videos:

Should Cigars Be Aged?

https://youtu.be/CF_4eQhuuRk

From Pro Soccer player to Working with Cigars!

https://youtu.be/QOQP4-tTJ7o

I Need a Good Cigar for Under $20

https://youtu.be/pSWHA9C-FrA...

It’s like a 12-minute immersive experience in a cigar escape room! Join us as we search for unicorns, never-released samples and private blends in Willy Herrera’s cigar stash. Willy is one big dude—literally and figuratively—in premium cigars.

The master blender for Drew Estate combines tobaccos to maintain consistency among legacy lines and to create new releases for the cult cigar brand. His authentic Cuban influence led to the creation of the eponymous Herrera Estelí lines, which include a Habano, Norteño and Brazilian Maduro.

The Herrera Estelí Miami is crafted by "Level 9" rollers from Cuba at El Titán de Bronze Cigars, which is the oldest remaining Fabrica in Miami’s Little Havana. His family-owned cigar factory is where Willy learned the craft of premium cigars.

Filmed on location in at El Titán de Bronze with Boveda’s host Rob Gagner.

Find the missing cigars and solve tobacco mysteries, listen to these highlights:

• 00:00 Cold open

• 00:24 Cigar lovers visit Miami’s Little Haven

• 02:03 Playing Hot-and-Cold Cigar Guessing Game

• 03:40 Is it plume or cigar mold?

• 04:47 What is cigar plume?

• 05:13 What cigars get tobacco beetles?

• 06:46 Learning tobacco at the family cigar factory

• 08:43 Looking for a good Habano cigar?

• 09:24 Is Indonesian flavorful tobacco?

• 10:06 What's a great lawn mowing cigar to pick in Little Haven?

To get great taste out of cigars, keep Boveda cigar packs in your humidor. Innovators in 2-way humidity control for tobacco, Boveda also makes Humidor Starter Kits, travel cigar humidor bags, one-step hygrometer calibration kits and other award-winning cigar accessories.

Shop Boveda here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collections/boveda-for-tobacco

Keep On Listening to Learn More About Cigars :

In the Tobacco Fields with Willy Herrera

https://youtu.be/2-el7mY06cs

The Best Cigar Brands Don’t Follow Trends—Drew Estate

https://youtu.be/Tplzkx6DZ2o

Should You Rotate Your Cigars in Your Humidor? | #AskBoveda

https://youtu.be/hFG5w_6-rOA

How do you judge a cigar? Focus on a cigar’s flavor, balance, construction and clean finish suggests HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. A cigar with a clean finish won’t leave you with a weird taste in your mouth afterward—what smokers call ashtray mouth. 

Native Cuban Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars in Havana. “To me, Cubans, when they are right, when you have a really good Cuban cigar, there’s nothing that you can compare with. So now in Nicaragua, we at HVC, we want to replicate that.” 

Filmed on location at HVC headquarters in Doral, Florida with Boveda’s Rob Gagner. 

Snow, cows and how to start your own boutique cigar company: 

• 00:00 Cold open
• 03:05 Blending cigar tobacco is like creating a recipe
• 03:19 Look for flavor over strength when choosing a cigar
• 03:48 What cigars does HVC make?
• 05:56 A Cuban moves to Wisconsin
• 10:33 From Wisconsin to Nicaragua and AGANORSA 
• 12:55 Why rolling a cigar at home is never as good as the premiums 
• 14:14 Starting a business? Observe like an entrepreneur 
• 16:53 What was the first broadleaf wrapper AGANORSA cigar?
• 20:55 Why you can’t create a cigar from just one tobacco farm
• 23:20 Look for flavor, balance, construction and clean finish in a cigar
• 23:29 No more cigar ashtray mouth!
• 30:28 How losing his dad at an early age affects a man
• 36:37 As a small business owner, you have to keep going after a failure 
• 40:11 Giving up the security of a job to start your own company
• 46:41 Best advice for launching a family business
• 47:19 Best response when someone says no to a sales pitch
• 53:29 Is it better to smoke a cigar alone or with friends?
• 54:41 Cigars vs. cigarettes—no comparison

To get great taste out of cigars, keep Boveda in your humidor. Using Boveda packs makes storing premium cigars easy. Makers of 2-way cigar humidification, Boveda also makes seasoning packs for wood humidors, travel cigar humidor bags and one-step hygrometer calibration kits. 

Looking for a gift for a cigar smoker, dad or other important guy in your life? Check out the Boveda Humidor Starter Kit and other cigar care accessories. Shop Boveda here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collections/boveda-for-tobacco

Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives:

A Cuban Cigar Collection | What's in Your Humidor? HVC, Reinier Lorenzo

https://youtu.be/eF6c-3BjfeM

When the U.S. Rolled More Cigars Than Cuba (Feat. Big Sky) 

https://youtu.be/tEBjL44vXF0

The Man Who Taught Me All I Know About Cigars (Feat. Crux Cigars) 

https://youtu.be/T8rUALdjkO4

Talking Family & Matilde's Origin Story w/ Enrique Seijas (feat. Matilde Cigars) 

https://youtu.be/n2OjLXbbAsI

Take a trip to Cuba in less than five minutes with HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. See first editions, Cigar Aficionado top cigar of the year and more as Reinier opens up his personal humidor to Box Press host Rob Gagner.

Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars from Cuba’s capital city, Havana. Filmed on location in Miami, Florida. Full interview with HVC Reiner Lorenzo is coming soon. Cigar lovers, subscribe to the Boveda Box Press channel, so you don’t miss it!

What’s in his humidor along with Boveda?

00:00 Cold open

00:56 What’s the most flavorful Cuban cigar on the market?

01:21 What is Rob Gagner’s favorite Cuban cigar?

01:49 Is it true that this cigar has no aftertaste?

02:30 What is Reinier Lorenzo’s favorite Cuban cigar?

02:54 What’s a good Cuban cigar with morning coffee?

03:14 Is there a stick in his Cuban cigar collection that he WON’T smoke?

04:02 3,000 archival Cuban cigar bands!

Which Boveda to Use to Store Cuban Cigars:

If you smoke Cubans or other cigars with oily wrappers, you can customize the moisture in your humidor with Boveda. Cigars like these do best at a slightly lower relative humidity with Boveda 65% RH. (65% RH is great for aging premium cigars, too.)

Before you add cigars to a new wood humidor, always season it first with the Boveda Humidor Starter Kit, a great Father’s Day gift for cigar smokers.

Shop Boveda for cigars here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...

Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives:

Is This a Cuban Cigar?

https://youtu.be/wsHXwyrxxAg

How To Spot A FAKE Cuban Cigar!

https://youtu.be/qiD5qFgSpqc?t=87

Busting 4 Myths About Cuban Cigars

A true crime cigar story! Thieving jacka$$es sledgehammer their way into the back of a humidor and make off with $150,000 worth of limited-edition cigars BEFORE the owner had a chance to insure his new warehouse. His next move after installing high-tech security? Craft a new boutique cigar called La Mandarria, which translates to THE SLEDGEHAMMER.

Hear the backstory from Casa Cuevas Cigars’ Luis Cuevas Jr. and Alec Cuevas. In 2022, the Dominican cigar company rereleased the cigar blends that disappeared in the 2019 theft as the Flaco Habano and Flaco Maduro. The father and son duo smoke 7 x 43 Flacos with the Box Press host Rob Gagner.

Shot on location at Miami’s Empire Social Lounge. Take a moment to enjoy South Florida’s cigar lifestyle—relax and listen to good stories over good cigars with good company.

When you head to Miami for cigars, stop in at Empire Social Lounge and tell them Boveda sent you: https://empiresociallounge.com/.

Highlights from this cigar podcast include:

00:00 Cold open

01:50 Father figure picks George Michael.

04:00 What kind of steak is churrascos?

06:21 If Guy Fieri has a bad hair day, I'm having a bad hair life, right?

13:28 Ramen, it’s more than just a college staple. Learn the best place to get real ramen in Miami.

14:13 Are boneless chicken wings even a thing?

18:23 Were they caught? The great cigar heist of 2019.

20:07 Discontinued stolen cigar line is relaunched as Casa Cuevas Flaco.

21:54 Lesson learned: number mastercases of inventory to deter theft.

22:28 Sledgehammer cigar is a positive outcome from a night of crime.

25:23 Shaggy foot cigar vs closed foot cigar. Discuss.

27:08 How the pandemic’s mini cigar boom is different from the 1990s cigar boom.

29:20 Casa Cuevas reveals brand launch backstory exclusive to Boveda!

31:38 How big of a hit does inventory theft make on a company’s financials?

46:19 Every one of their blends is hand-written by Luis Cuevas Sr.

52:05 Transitioning into the family cigar business after college.

1:02:03 HORROR STORY! Low RH makes cigars blow up!

Premium cigar makers protect the flavor and consistency of tobacco by packaging cigars with Boveda. Cigar smokers use Boveda in humidors to continue to preserve and age their cigars. Before you add cigars to a new wood humidor, always season it first with the Boveda Humidor Starter Kit, a great Father’s Day gift for cigar smokers.

Shop Boveda for cigars here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...

Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives:

A Father, A Son and Cigars! (Feat. Litto and Tony Gomez, LFD)

https://youtu.be/65oJtyaVi4c

For Long-term Success in the Family Biz, Look to Daughters (Feat. Raquel Quesada)

https://youtu.be/ZtI3XGCHi1Q

Talking Family & Matilde's Origin Story (Feat. Enrique Seijas, Matilde Cigars)

https://youtu.be/n2OjLXbbAsI

The first stop on the Miami cigar scene! Boveda’s Miami cigar tour features acrobats, a new celebrity cigar, stink bugs and other spine-tingling tales from cigar legend Jack Toraño. Espinosa Cigar’s brand ambassador gives host Rob Gagner a Knuckle Sandwich, the new Guy Fieri cigar. Hear how the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives star launched his stick. Private jet to Puerto Rico. Mongo release party. Cadre of chefs. BAM!

Shot on location at Miami’s Empire Social Lounge. Take a moment to enjoy South Florida’s cigar lifestyle—relax and listen to good stories over good cigars with good company.

When you head to Miami for cigars, stop in at Empire Social Lounge and tell them Boveda sent you: https://empiresociallounge.com.

Highlights from this cigar podcast include:

00:00 Cold open

02:25 New cigar trend? Celebrities endorsing cigars again?

05:06 When it comes to cigars, is Guy Fieri the real deal?

10:23 The ’70s and ’80s were not a good time for cigars—discuss

11:15 Oddest mixed tape ever—Niteflyte, Average White Band, The Rolling Stones and Survivor?!

11:32 Remember "Real Men of Genius"? “Real Men of Genius” Mr. Way too Much Cologne Wearer https://youtu.be/ik6QzSgrqZ4

12:47 Stogiebird’s Sam Leccia and a traveling act of little people in Nicaragua

17:15 Jonathan Drew and Nick Melillo take a cigar national sales meeting to the circus

18:34 Blending Sam Leccia’s Luchador Cigar

26:24 DJing on NYE in the Viagra Triangle

27:45 What makes a good DJ?

33:42 "You bought a brand called Toraño Family Cigars and there's no family."

35:25 It’s always easier to find a job when you have a job

37:58 Severed from a company on Ugly Christmas Sweater Day

41:14 John joined Espinosa. General and Espinosa Cigars joined forces to release Warzone. Warzone was named Cigar Aficionado #13 Cigar of the Year for 2000!

45:07 Watch for 5 new releases from Espinosa Cigars

46:18 Who are the biggest partiers in the cigar biz?

Premium cigar makers protect the flavor and consistency of tobacco by packaging cigars with Boveda. Cigar smokers use Boveda in humidors to continue to preserve and age their cigars. Before you add cigars to a new wood humidor, always season it first with the Boveda Humidor Stater Kit.

Shop Boveda for cigars here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...

Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives:

NBA Legend Karl Malone Talks Long-time Cigar Passion and New Brand

https://youtu.be/60WJ-ybYJpE

“Craft” Cigars is a Physical Manifestation of an Emotional Connection

https://youtu.be/nY_nkP5X3lY

Traveling With Cigars?! You NEED To See This 👀

https://youtu.be/3jJqfdLsQGU?t=84