In a recent letter to the industry, Dr. Gaby Kafie – Founder and principal of Kafie Trading Company, LLC announced a new cigar to celebrate his 50th birthday and also discussed the upcoming Boutique Cigar Festival, that he was instrumental in organizing.
The letter in its entirety is follows.
From Dr. Gaby Kafie…
This day marks the 50th year of celebration of my life (07/07/1971). I have had the great privilege to serve many roles in my life, most of which have been self created and appointed. I have served as founder and principal of Kafie Trading Company, LLC, a company specializing in manufacturing premium boutique cigars & roasting small batch coffee. Our loyalty to brick and mortar retailers has never wavered.
As a physician, my life has centered around the unselfish quest for always finding time to help others, in any capacity. Although I no longer practice medicine, I find that my core principles have not changed or wavered. In 2016, I founded the Boutique Cigar Association, a non profit organization focused on helping small boutique cigar brands find their place in the market. The BCA has been very outspoken locally and nationally always protecting the interests of small producers.
My satisfaction has always come from helping others, not expecting anything in return but instead building a community that can work towards protecting & elevating the boutique cigar craft around the world.
Five years later, the first ever www.boutiquecigarfestival.com is taking place. Bringing together over 20 cigar manufacturers at a venue known as the Cedar Creek Winery, Brewery, and Distillery. Their partnership in hosting this event on August 13 & 14, 2021 is greatly appreciated. Over 2000 people are expected to attend this Boutique Cigar event.
Life is a journey of milestones, successes and failures. The secret is to always learn from your failures and minimize them or whenever possible learn from the mistakes of others. The premium cigar industry has given me a new and positive outlook on my journey in life. Living with a visual impairment (disability) is not easy, but I do my best to try not to let it affect operations. I truly feel this journey I am on is a blessing, a second calling. My passion is to produce the finest cigars coming out of Honduras.
Seven years into my career as a premium cigar manufacturer, I am now focused on what is to be the most important blend. Important because it marks an important milestone in my life. Turning 50 is a huge year for everyone, for me particularly it represents how much I have had to learn to get to where I’m at today.
To date we have introduced 4 permanent blends to market under the Kafie 1901 Cigars brand.… 3 of which have been nominated for the highly prestigious Cigar Journal Trophy awards (2018 – 2021)
1) Don Fernando Maduro (named after my father Don Fernando Kafie Sr. )
2) Kafie 1901 Connecticut
3) Kafie 1901 Sumatra
4) Kafie 1901 San Andres
The Kafie 1901 Serie L
We are currently working on a cigar to celebrate my 7 years in the premium cigar industry. It will be produced at our factory Tabacalera San Jerónimo in Danli, Honduras.
I am going to release a special cigar named the Kafie 1901 Serie L (L is Roman Script for 50) to commemorate this special moment in my life. I have learned so much about tobacco, fermentation, and tobacco processing in the past 7 years I would like to feature the talents of our entire team in this blend.“
The blend will consist of an Ecuador Habano wrapper aged 4 years. This blend will implement all the teachings that I gathered from working with the late family of Rolando Reyes Sr. , as well as our current team in Honduras. Binder and filler tobaccos will be from Nicaragua (undisclosed). This will be a permanent line for our company and will be distributed globally. We have been working on this blend for the past 18 months. As this will be a winter 2021 release, more information will be available as the date approaches. Packaging will be in 20 count boxes, 2 rows of 10. Traditional 100% Spanish cedar all natural wooden boxes. First shipment is set to arrive November 05, 2021.
Vitolas offered
- 6×60 $14.99 Individual Cigar
- 6×52 $12.99 Individual Cigar
- 6×46 $10.99 Individual Cigar
- 7×38 $10.99 Individual Cigar
On behalf of myself and everyone that comprises our operations, I would like to personally thank you for all your support. We would not be where we are today without you.
Life is about family, friends, and faith. My journey has been blessed because I always see the light where there is darkness. This includes people. I tend to only see the good in people, I don’t think I would ever want to change this. Life is beautiful, enjoy the journey. #kafie1901
On this special 50th birthday, I raise my glass to all of you. I am drinking ARARAT Cognac (Brandy) in honor of you and your family. This is the same Cognac Sir Winston Churchill would drink when he enjoyed his fine cigars. Thank you for all your support. I wish you continued success. My love to you.
Thank you,
Dr. Gaby Kafie
I think you misspelled the word “Tobaco” on your website. If you want to keep errors off of your site we’ve successfully used a tool like SpellPros.com in the past for our websites. A nice customer pointed out our mistakes so I’m just paying it forward :).
just looked and I don’t see that – there are 5 uses of the word tobacco none using tobaco
thanks though