PCA 2021: CLE Cigar Company (Audio)

From the 2021 PCA Trade Show, we talk to Tom Lazuka of CLE Cigar Company and Asylum Cigars.

CLE Cigar Company is home to four main brands: CLE, EIROA, Wynwood Hills, and Asylum. When it comes to the CLE and Eiroa brands, the name of the game is “Cameroon de Jamastran.” This is a Cameroon seed wrapper grown on Julio R. Eiroa’s tobacco farm in the Jamastran Valley in Honduras. Last year, Julio and his son Justo used the wrapper on JRE Tobacco Company’s Aladino Cameroon. This year, Julio’s other son Christian would get the opportunity to work with the wrapper. CLE Cigar Company was also in a unique position as it was the only company to produce two PCA Exclusive Cigars – one for the Eiroa brand and the other for the Asylum brand.

References

• PCA 2021 Report: CLE Cigar Company