State of the Brand: My Father Cigars

(Cigar Feed) While Raices Cubanas is arguably (at least for me), the hottest factory of 2010; no one was more influental in the past decade than José Garcia (Don Pepin.) Still, for the most part kept, news from the company is limited, a sharp contrast to Pepin’s famed partner, Pete Johnson. After the jump, info on all the latest from Pepin, including info about the new My Father Limited Edition 2011. Continued

Photo: The Age of dead-locks - Smoke Leo cigars. Tobacco label caricaturing famous contemporary "deadlocks": Beecher & Talmage, Ingersoll & the devil, Gould & Vanderbilt, Kelly & Tilden, Mayor Grace & the street commissioners, Conkling & Blaine. Circa 1876? (Library of Congress).