MLB Cigar Ventures will have a pair of new cigar lines at this year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show; the first of which is the Imperia Islero, an extension to the company’s core line and has been pushed back a bit from its originally scheduled April release, while the second draws on a name that will likely be more familiar to pipe smokers and Bostonians. This summer, Mike Bellody will launch the David P. Ehrlich brand, named for a historic pipe and tobacco manufacturer as well as prominent Boston retailer. For Bellody, the opportunity to use the Ehrlich name was one that seemed to come together all too perfectly. David P. Ehrlich began working in the pipe business in 1881 under the tutelage of a man named Ferdinand Abraham, who in 1868 opened a pipe and tobacco shop in Boston. Ehrlich would eventually marry Abraham’s daughter and take over the now family business renaming it eponymously along the way. His retail store became a fixture in Boston until its closure around 2011, and it is where Bellody himself began smoking cigars. For many years it boasted of being the second-oldest continuously operating tobacconist in the United States. The Ehrlich family eventually sold the ...
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