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“We never closed,” he said during last month’s International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association convention & trade show in Las Vegas. “We kept making cigars with our four rollers in Miami, but now we can sell them everywhere.” The Pio VI taste and style has been maintained, today using an Ecuadorian-grown, Sumatra-seed wrapper, Ecuadorian binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan-grown filler leaves. Only five sizes are made, from a 5-inch by 50-ring Robusto (“Overture No. 3") to the 7-inch by 48-ring Churchill (“Overture No. 1") at retail prices of $5.25 to $7.50 before local tobacco and sales taxes. Medina was actually able to get the brand back into circulation in late 2007 and has been re-building what was once an expanding list of clients for this small-production brand. Even with the ability to sell Pio VI nationally, Medina is sticking to his boutique formula and appointing only a select number of retailers to carry the brand. You can find them only by inquiry at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it If belief in your product is the key to building a business, Medina should be on his way once again, this time without any interference. New Hampshire landmark shop passes to new owners Earlier this month, Leonard Seagren and Rus Cullen turned over the much-loved Federal Cigar shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to new owners Rick and Meghan Gadway. The Federal Cigar store was not only a local landmark, but garnered national attention every four years as Seagren held an in-store straw poll on the U.S. Presidential election just prior to the New Hampshire Primaries. According to Foster’s Daily Democrat, the Gadways opened Top Shelf Cigar in 2006 in nearby Dover and once Seagren and Cullen decided to sell the two Federal stores (there is a second in the area on Route One), the sale was made quickly as Seagren was impressed with the energy and knowledge that the Gadways brought with them. “We carefully selected them in hopes of making it bigger and better than it is today,” said Seagren. Rick Gadway said the plans are to include a private smoking lounge in the store. Seagren and Cullen owned the store for 27 years, but the original Federal Cigar store opened in 1921. The Gadways will be the fifth owners of the store. And the winner is . . . Congratulations to Leland Askeland of Longmont, Colorado, winner of our “Register & Win” drawing for a free box of Excalibur Epicures from our Perelman, Pioneer & Company humidors, courtesy of General Cigar. Up for your pleasure this week is a prized box of 25 La Gloria Cubana Wavells, made by hand under the direction of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo in the Dominican Republic. They’re medium in body with plenty of flavor and offered in the classic robusto size of five inches by 50 ring gauge, provided courtesy once again of our friends at General Cigar.. The box will be awarded in our drawing to be held on Sunday, August 31. To enter, just click on the “Register & Win” tab above and fill out the required information. If you have entered in the past, there is no need to re-enter; all past entries are carried forward to future drawings. You must be 21 or older to win; good luck! ~ Rich Perelman CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINGCigar Humidors and Cigar Accessories at Humidor Vault! Your online cigar humidor source, with rock-bottom pricing and fantastic customer support!Like sports? Get news and commentary you won’t see in your morning newspaper at TheSportsExaminer.com! Join the examination! A limited amount of classified advertising is available in this space on a weekly basis. For details, call Pat Harris at (213) 365-7965 or inquire by email by clicking here. Have an opinion? You can send it using the “Comment” button below! Don’t forget to register for our drawing for free cigars and accessories! Just click on the “Register & Win” button above; enter today! Looking for a cigar party? Take a look at our exclusive list of hundreds of cigar events across the country, listed by state and date, only on CigarCyclopedia.com!
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