Visiting a Cigar Master in the Dominican Republic
I spent Monday afternoon in Santiago, Dominican Republic, with one of the true masters of the cigar business, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo. You know him from his years at La Gloria Cubana, first in Miami, later in the Dominican Republic. La Gloria was the first real star of the American cigar boom of the mid-1990s, and that was due to the hard work of Ernesto, who made a damn fine cigar and sold it at an honest price
He's no longer with La Gloria, and now he's making a new cigar brand in a new cigar factory called Tabacalera La Alianza.
