Ferio Tego is like a greatest hits album for cigar lovers. All your favorites, less of the “something new we’re working on and we hope you like it” smokes. Learn why there’s room in your humidor for oldies-but-goodies and hot-new-hits. Ferio Tego’s Herklots joined Boveda’s Rob Gagner at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas for this episode of Box Press, the cigar lifestyle podcast.

Metropolitan and Timeless cigars are alive today because of Herklots and his business partner Brendon Scott. When the now-defunct Nat Sherman International closed, the two former employees started a cigar company with saved legacy brands and cigar accessories and two new blends, Elegancia and Generoso.

Highlights of the cigar conversation with Herklots include:

6:00 Getting a job at a tobacco shop to pay for his cigar hobby

8:01 Succeeding at work is doing more than your job

13:30 Wearing a guayabera and Panama hat while standing in the middle of a tobacco field smelling green leaves is not him

15:50 Comparing wine to cigars

19.50 Learning how to blend a cigar

22:28 Blending the Quesada 35th

25:31 Smoking unfermented tobacco in a cigar

47:29 Growing popularity of “meme” cigars

1:01:13 Listening to a favorite song is like smoking a legacy cigar

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Learn more about Ferio Tego Cigars at https://www.feriotego.com/

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