LCA Plus - Privada Hialeah Gardens Toro Bokspress
Hialeah Gardens Toro Bokspress
If you watch our YouTube channel, you already know about Erik Espinosa. A tough, stout, Cuban
from the streets. He built a multi-million dollar company out of absolutely nothing except
passion and hard work. The American dream. The first time I went to visit Espinosa was the
first time I was ever in Hialeah Gardens. Almost all of my cigar shipments come from this area
of Hialeah Gardens, Hialeah, and Doral. This is an area outside of downtown Miami that is
100% Cuban. It is like being transported to a different country in South America or the Caribbean.
I started to think about how every cigar typically has the city name of Havana and Cuba.
Then I started to think about the reality of it all.
The cigars we smoke pass through this area more than anywhere else in the world. And I
thought to myself, “why the hell doesn’t anyone call their cigar the Hialeah?” So I asked Erik
and he said “why the hell would anyone do that?” To which I answered, “Because it’s the truth.”
As much as we like to glamorize the old world and tradition, the truth becomes tradition. And
the truth is that since about 2001 and beyond, Hialeah and Hialeah gardens have become THE cigar epicenter..
Brian Desind - Limited Cigar Assosiation - a subsidary of Privada
Nordic Cigars
