Owner

As a sixteen-year-old, Franklin Pichardo had no idea his future would lie in the cigar industry. He was making an honest living washing cars in Santiago when he stumbled upon the opportunity to learn from some legendary names and develop his craft as a cigar professional.

He had no idea what he was getting into until his friend Andres Belliard asked him one fateful day, “Hey young man, do you want to start rolling cigars?” Despite the uncertainty of it all, Pichardo took a leap of faith and replied with enthusiasm, "Sure! Nothing is impossible. Let's try." Little did he know that this decision in 1995 would change his life forever.

After two decades of hard work, Pichardo is proud to have achieved 22 years in the cigar industry, especially for his first 15 spent as a master roller with Arturo Fuente's Opus X brand.