\u201cWe have been growing backwards,\u201d states Dr Gaby Kafie, attending his first InterTabac trade show with distributors PasionPuro. Kafie 1901 was established five years ago with the name acknowledging the year the Kafie family arrived in Honduras from Lebanon. Kafie refers to his cigar business as \u201cgrowing backwards\u201d as the company has been investing in new buildings such as a recent box factory in Honduras, instead of attending trade shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the people and the overall mood and feeling of InterTabac,\u201d said Kafie. \u201cThe European connoisseur market in general is very different to the USA. We\u2019re a traditional company and this market is interested in more than just the cigar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kafie 1901\u2019s Don Fernando Maduro, a finalist in the 2018 Cigar Trophy awards in the Best Value Honduras category<\/a>, makes Kafie realise he\u2019s not crazy to pursue his cigar dream.<\/p>\n Besides the Don Fernando cigar line consisting of 3 cigars which honours his late father and made at the Puros Indios Aliados factory, Gaby Kafie\u2019s signature line features four versions while the San Jer\u00f3nimo line features tobacco from the San Jer\u00f3nimo Valley in Honduras. In 2018 the factory is tracking towards 380,000 sticks across all the lines and up 500,00 next year with the incorporation of bundles.<\/p>\n \u201cOur factory demonstrates versatility with different wrappers such as the use of Mexican San Andres and Brazilian Mata Fina, while our blends are consistent and characteristic of who we are as a boutique cigar business,\u201d said Kafie.<\/p>\n Kafie 1901:<\/strong> Available in a Connecticut, San Andres, Maduro, Sumatra blends. www.kafiecigars.com<\/a> Kafie 1901 was established five years ago with the name acknowledging the year the Kafie family arrived in Honduras from Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":22882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,2808,55,2812,44],"tags":[5432,5431,5403,5430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cigars<\/h3>\n
\nSan Jer\u00f3nimo:<\/strong> Available in an Ecuador Habano, Ecuador Habano Maduro, Connecticut blends.
\nDon Fernando:<\/strong> Available in Maduro.<\/p>\n
\nwww.pasionpuro.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"