This huge water truck pulls into camp, and I hop up on the side of his rig to tell him where to go, and as he lowers his window more, a huge, but wonderful waft of cigar smoke hits me.................awesome room note!

I ask what he’s smoking.........Old Henry Maduro.

I know Pepin has been making these for MB3 for a long time.

Anyone have these in their rotation?

Any comments on favorite lines and/or vitolas?

Thx

I fear all is not well...no definitive proof but jespear came up with some evidence that was not promising a while back...

but a Philly kid, so the Old Henrys make sense.

Unfortunately, I do believe CB has gone on to that big humidor in the sky for an eternal rest.

Not 100% certain, but I found an obituary a while back that I'm pretty sure was his. 😞

jes

Dam that's very unfortunate to hear if thats the case. He was a good guy.

I'm a fan of the original. I remember reading a story years ago on the MBIII web site. I don't know if it's true or not, but they claim that many years ago, an older Cuban roller came into their Philly store and offered to roll cigars in their front window. The cigars where an instant hit with their customers. The older Cuban roller? None other then an unknown Don Pepin Garcia himself. According to the story, this is how Pepin got his start. Their claim was that the Old Henry is the original blend that Pepin rolled in their store front window. This story since been removed from their website so take it with a grain of salt.

David

Wow John, so sorry to hear this.

David

+1

Holding out hope that maybe John is wrong........but...

[-o<

If someone confirms, I'll update the memorial page

Hmmm..............never heard anything like that.

Crazy story if true.

Is the original the one with the Corojo wrapper?

Do you still smoke em?

David

during my last few exchanges with Stephen, he told me of a very debilitating illness that was attacking his joints and cartilage...something much like that.

He said it had been going on a while, he'd sometimes post after being MIA that he'd been away from cbid due to the flu or a bad cold but really he had bad stretches with this disease and preferred to not publicize it here, so he lied about minor health issues.

he was angry about this, had been proud of working with his hands and now his body was weakening. said he was going to stop communicating because he found that most of the time he ended up consoling the well wisher over how badly they felt for him, and he just didn't really mean it when saying he appreciated it and stuff.

He was angry.

Never replied to my last PM a few years ago...but as far as confirming, John took it from where I left off.

I haven’t texted his wife in some time.

jespear and I were trying to remember her name recently...oh, wait.

ya got me.

not just a supplier, he contacted Litto directly! Bought the whole lot of the exclusive size (The Hammer) rolled for a shpo in/near Philly. I think it was 17 or 18 boxes.

He didn't keep one for himself, was already pretty ill.

I got a box, wish I had been smaht enough to get 2 or 3...but in hindsight, I believe the more that got in on this the better.

And it was StePHen! Boy did he get mad if someone wrote Steven.