“INCH” from E.P. Carrillo – Limited Edition

Limited-edition INCH 2019 from EPC Cigar Co. Released as a newest smoke from the EPC Cigar Company LLC., owned by Cuban American master cigar-maker Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. has a reputation in the cigar business as one of the best cigar-maker.  His father, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Sr. a founded El Credito in Miami after fled from Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, and passed away in Miami in 1980.

So far the company already has a reputation even that said locally, the famous La Gloria Cubana and El Rico Habano cigars.

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. after return to Miami from New York (in New York he play music as a talented Jazz drummer), and after his father passed away, he continuing the cigar business for El Credito, and then El Credito selling to Swedish Match/General Cigar in 1999, he remain working with them.

After ten years working with the new owner, his son Ernesto III and his daughter Lissette asks him to making his own cigar and they unveiled the E.P. Carrillo brand in 2009. Ernesto Jr. opened his own factory E.P. Carrillo Cigar Company, that he called – Tabacalera La Alianza in the Dominican Republic.

Recently he creates the La Gloria Cubana Series R and got success in the USA market.  Their cigar products spreading smoothly from a few thousand to the millions.

INCH Limited Edition 2019 cigar rolled at the Tabacalera La Alianza factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic, uses all Nicaraguan tobacco, the wrapper used Connecticut Habano.

The cigar is fat enough; size of the cigar is 6 1/8 inches long by 64 ring gauge, which makes it a full inch in diameter.  This cigar is Perez-Carrillo commemorative blend for their line of production after several years of tobacco accumulation and tinkering with blending fat cigars.

Perez -Carrillo knowing as a forefront of the fat cigar trend. He brought excessively heavy ring gauge cigars to the mainstream when he created La Gloria Cubana Serie R in late of 1990s.

So far this cigar is a limited edition with a limited product of 2,000 boxes of 10 sticks or only 20,000 cigar sticks, selling price in the USA is US $.15 per cigar.

As like EPC Cigars motto; “Character, Quality, Family”, INCH LE 2019 created with a special character, the shape and ring sizes figured to that.  By selecting a special aged tobacco leaf and handcrafted rolled the cigar it has a good quality, and finally – even the cigar is selling thay you might bought – when you smoke the cigar it hope your are like a family.

Vitola:

• Size: 6 1/8″ x 64
• Filler: Nicaraguan long-leaf tobacco
• Binder: Nicaraguan tobacco
• Wrapper: Connecticut Habano.
• Blender: Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.
• Factory: EPC Cigar Company LLC.
• Country of Origin: Dominican Republic