I am pretty happy to land the first interview with owners Lee and JR of the newly launched Stolen Throne cigar brand. Their official launch was June 1 and they are currently available at https://store.cigarfederation.com/products/stolen-throne-cigars?variant=23292854861882 Be sure to check them out! Let’s get a little more info about them and the brand shall we?
So tell us a little bit about yourself/selves. (Background, occupation, hobbies, interest, etc.)
How long have you been into cigars?
What made you decide to start your own brand?
Walk us through the process if you will.
Lee: It was a pretty simple process albeit time consuming lol. Basically once we decided who we wanted to work with we hit the ground running. Sampling tons and tons of tobacco, prototyping, tweaking, so on and so forth. It was the naming of the company and all the red tape and administrative stuff that was cumbersome and difficult.
Tell us about the brand. Does the name have a story behind it? How did you pick a factory to work with?
Lee: It’s a funny story actually. As we have said this has been years in the making. Well someone in the industry, who we won’t name didn’t take too kindly to the idea of JR and I venturing into the business. They made some off color comments to the effect of “there is no seat for you at the table.” Well, me being me I responded with choice words and ended with “I’ll steal one…” Stolen Throne was born. LOL
Working with Noel Rojas has to be a pretty cool experience. Care to discuss that a bit?
Lee: Noel has been great. I can’t say enough about him. He really let us loose and control the blending process which was really important to me. He has so much knowledge and lessons learned to share. We have just clicked and I can’t really envision Stolen Throne being produced with someone else.
Let’s talk about the cigars. (Blends if you want to disclose or not is fine, sizes, price point, etc.)
Lee: The Crook of the Crown is our baby lol. It’s a 10 year aged San Andres Maduro wrapper over Indonesian binder and Nicaraguan fillers.
What can people expect from the blends?
JR: Crook of the Crown is a full-bodied, medium plus strength smoke that offers strong espresso notes balanced with some black pepper spice and rounded out by a subtle sweetness from that beautiful well aged wrapper.
The artwork is really cool. Any story behind the names or artwork?
JR: Coming up with a name was arduous process. We came up with numerous names, but none was appealing. Finally, Lee floated the names Stolen Throne and Crook of the Crown. Perfection doesn’t come easily, lol
Lee: The artwork is all JR. He actually sketched it up on a napkin while we were smoking and a few bourbons deep I believe. lol
Where can they be purchased?
We are happy to announce that Crook of the Crown can be purchased from Cigar Federation!
What can we expect over the next few months?
We have already started on future projects, but our major focus is to continue to get the Crook into the hands of the people.
Anything else you want to add?
We just want to thank everyone for the support as we start this journey, the feedback has been excellent! Thank you Scott for giving us a voice.
Thanks for taking the time to do this. We look forward to watching this journey and experience these cigars. Best of luck to you!
Stolen Throne cigars can be purchased at https://store.cigarfederation.com/products/stolen-throne-cigars?variant=23292854861882
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