This year may have been the worst year for a new cigar company to debut; not only was new FDA regulation of premium cigars on the horizon, but the marketplace was to be flooded by existing companies releasing vast amounts of cigars in order to get them on the market before they would need FDA approval. That didn’t stop some companies from debuting, however, including Sacra Folium Cigar Co., the project of Boris Grossman, Matthew Airey, John Fable and Gary Podell. Grossman is the owner of Matador Cigars in Long Island, N.Y., and the group would be bringing five new lines to the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show in hopes of gaining traction amongst retailers at the cigar industry’s annual gathering. As the group got started, they asked Dion Giolito of Illusione Cigars for advice, who recommended they travel to Honduras and work with Fábrica de Tabacos Raíces Cubanas S. de R.L., the well-known factory generally called Raíces Cubanas. The four came up with five lines, Fractal, Golden Ratio, Law of Sines, Malus and this cigar, 4th Density. The blend names “are mathematical and geometric terms inspired by our theme of certain scholars beliefs that the universe was originally a small geometric object that became bored ...
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