Portrait: Brian Chinnock

 

(Halfwheel) There are a lot of cigar brand owners who enjoy wine. Many of them have seen their love of grapes spill over into the names of cigars, no one has taken quite as far as Brian Chinnock, owner of Chinnock Cellars Cigars. For Chinnock, wine is not just a passion or hobby, rather, it’s his other business—Chinnock Cellars, a winery. That business is located in California, while his cigars are rolled across the country at Miami’s El Titan de Bronze. As is so often the case with Chinnock, we managed to find him with a cigar in one hand and a glass of wine in the other. Continued