In 2013, with cigar lit and drink in hand, we hatched the idea of starting a brand of cigars that would exemplify the Strength and Freedom that define America. We spent the next five years covering the bases of building a business, while also smoking a lot of cigars, to define what palate our blends would speak to. This journey of taste led us to Tamboril known to many as the “World Capital of Cigars”.The Tamboril region hosts some of the finest cigar factories in the world, built around the fields that have grown tobacco for generations. Farming is a science, founded in a love for the land, and nowhere is this more evident than in the fields of Tamboril. As you smoke Fuerte y Libre cigars you will see why farming is so important to the flavor of a fine cigar. The heart of our cigars and our business resides in the fields that grow our tobaccos.We expected to have a production factory selected in the Spring of 2017 and finish refining blends and sizes by the beginning of the Summer. In 2017 we selected El Hoyito in the Dominican Republic and after testing and refining multiple blends we started production of our first line, Bodacious, in the late summer of 2018. With a base of Dominican Ligero, Filler and Binder wrapped in Ecuadorean Habano or Maduro leaves, these cigars exemplified what our journey was all about. Smoking Strong and Living Free. Bodacious arrived on our shores with little fanfare but a great deal of pride in May of 2019 and landed at our first retailer, Tobaccology, on June 1, 2019.If you haven’t figured it out by now, Fuerte y Libre means Strong and Free. We hope you enjoy our cigars as much as we have enjoyed the journey that brought them to your door.Smoke Strong, Live Free.