E.P. CARRILLO ENCORE MAJESTIC little cigars are a culmination of Nicaraguan tobacco
The tastes of E.P. CARRILLO ENCORE MAJESTIC little cigars range from oak and tea to caramel sweets with sharp citrus notes. Elegant and sophisticated, the E.P. CARRILLO ENCORE MAJESTIC little cigars are also the culmination of a long career in the cigar business and the result of a man who was never afraid to follow his instincts.
It is hard to talk about E.P. CARRILLO ENCORE MAJESTIC little cigars without mentioning the person behind the brand. Ernesto Perez-Carrillo is a cigar manufacturer who has gone through many stages in the cigar industry, a man who has started from scratch several times in his long career.
He started as an employee in his father’s small cigar business in Miami. It was called El Credito Cigar Co. and produced several hundred thousand cigars a year for locals in Little Havana. Then, in 1976, when his father was about to sell the business, Ernesto had a hunch that told him that he was making a mistake. The sale has been canceled. His father died in 1980, and Perez-Carrillo took over the management of the company, investing most of his efforts in a brand called La Gloria Cubana, which became one of the top 1990s.
The brand caught the attention of General Cigar Co., which acquired La Gloria in 1999. Perez Carrillo worked with General for ten years before leaving again to open his own business and created EPC Cigar Co. in 2009 with my children.
Since opening its own factory in the Dominican Republic, Perez Carrillo has produced a large number of brands, some of which are more successful than others, but not one of them has been as brilliant as E.P. Carrillo Encore.
He worked with Nicaraguan leaves for a long time, but Encore is the first time he made E.P. CARRILLO ENCORE MAJESTIC little cigars exclusively from Nicaraguan tobacco sorts. Insightful retailers might recall that he first announced Encore at the IPCPR trade show in 2016, but Perez-Carrillo decided that the cigar was not quite ready, so while continuing to work, he decided to put the cigar on hold and give it more time for aging, almost two years. Only in March last year, he felt that the cigars were finally ready and his decision paid off.