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Two days inside El Reloj, J.C. Newman

Name: Two days inside El Reloj, J.C. Newman
Start: 2024-04-26
Location: Tampa, FL

Locked in the warehouse of one of the oldest cigar factories in the United States, opening bale after bale to get a blend right.

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Two days inside El Reloj, J.C. Newman — April 26, 2024

1 of ~28rollers cleared for the Opus XCigar Journal, 2016

6 minone cigar, in front of youHis own words

150+events workedFranklin’s own count

I have been lock up for 2 days in the Reloj J.C. Newman Cigar Company very concentrated on making & exploring the Tobacco where house opening all of the tobacco belts to make sure that I was making the right and special blend for my mentor the Tampa Boy. Carlos Carlito Fuente Jr. Birthday celebration!!

Franklin PichardoPosted April 26, 2024

1 of ~28 Opus X rollers—Arturo Fuente since 1995—Official roller · F1 Miami—Published in Cigar Journal—A quarter century at the table—Rolled for Hublot—

The man at that table

Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.

How he got there