The J.C. Newman Cigar Company, founded in 1895 in Tampa, Florida is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in America. Come along and join Bobby Newman at the family’s 110 year-old cigar factory in the heart of Ybor City.
Bobby shares fascinating insights about the Newman family’s 126-year history of making cigars and how to properly savor a stogie. The grandson of the founder Julius Caeser Newman, Bobby oversees the process of crafting premium cigars both by hand and with ancient hand-operated cigar machines. He also coordinates the partnership with the legendary Don Carlos and Arturo Fuente Cigar Company.Underwriting support for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Region of Northern Alabama.
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