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The Cigar Merchant:

Trahan Reserve Serie T - Trahan Reserva Serie T is a brand of hand-made premium cigar owned by The Cigar Merchant Company. The brand was created by José "Pepin" Garcia and is manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida. The brand is named for the former owner of the company, Todd Trahan, and was styled to be as close to the Partagas Serie D #4 as possible.

Pepin has stated that the Serie T, while no longer produced for Trahan, is most similar to the Blue Label line he produces.






Padilla

Padilla Miami - he blend for this brand was created by José "Pepin" Garcia and the cigars are manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida. The name refers to the location of the factory, which is near the corner of 8th Street & 11th Avenue in Miami. The band and packaging were designed by Ernesto Padilla.

A full-strength cigar, the Padilla Miami has a wrapper of Nicaraguan grown Cuban-seed Corojo surrounding a filler blend of Nicaraguan Criollo and Corojo and a binder of Nicaraguan Criollo.
The band is black with gold lettering, with a large monogram "P" surrounded by a gold border in the center, with "Miami" in gold on a red background below the monogram

Padilla Signature 1932 - The brand was created by José "Pepin" Garcia and is manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida, with one size (La Perla) made at Tabacalera Cubana S. A., Pepin's factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.

The late Heberto Padilla, noted Cuban poet, was born in the year 1932 and his son Ernesto Padilla, the owner of Padilla Cigars, named this cigar brand as a tribute to his father.The brand was released in stages.

Padilla 1948 - The 1948 is the second addition to the Padilla trilogy started by Ernesto in honor of his father, one of Cuba’s most accomplished poets. 1948 marks the year his father published his first book. The filler consists of Cuban-seed Nicaraguan Criollo and Corojo tobaccos secured by a Criollo binder.



Black Cat Cigar Company:

Rey Miguel - is a brand of hand-made premium cigar owned by Black Cat Cigar Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. The brand was created by José "Pepin" Garcia and is manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida. This is a medium-bodied cigar. The filler is a blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos. The binder is not known. The wrapper is a Connecticut-seed wrapper grown by Silvio & Alfredo Perez in Ecuador. This wrapper tempers the strength and body of the filler blend.

Sam's GS STash - The brand was originally created by José "Pepín" García for the company owner's personal use. Production was increased and the brand was released publicly in late 2006 or early 2007. It is manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida.The cigars have an oily Nicaraguan corojo wrapper, with Nicaraguan tobacco also used for the filler and binder. It is a full-bodied cigar.


SOURCES: Wikipedia, Cigars International, Famous Smoke