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Warped Cigars owner Kyle Gellis, who is known for working with factories such as Aganorsa Leaf in Nicaragua and El Titan de Bronze in Miami, is going off the beaten path by adding his first Dominican-made cigar. The new smoke, called Chinchalle, is expected to ship in late summer as a single vitola, Robusto.
“We wanted to progress forward with Warped in challenging ourselves to keep providing unique blends to our customers, so heading to a place we have not produced cigars before was the immediate first choice,” Gellis said.
Chinchalle, which is Cuban slang for a very small factory, is made in Santiago, Dominican Republic, at the newly-opened Tabacalera Isla factory owned by Hostos Fernandez Quesada.
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After more than 20 years working for others in the cigar industry, Hostos Fernandez Quesada has gone out on his own. The 36-year-old opened his own small factory in the Dominican Republic last week where he produces handmade, premium cigars.
“I just thought it was time to take a swing,” Quesada said on a Zoom interview with
Cigar Aficionado. “I don’t want to turn 60 without having done this. It’s now or never.”
Quesada had previously been with cigar label printing company Cigar Rings, which he joined in 2018, but his true cigar production and tobacco experience came from the two decades he spent at Quesada Cigars working for his uncle, Manuel “Manolo” Quesada.