I ve been selling cigars in my wine shop for a little over 3 years now. I started out relatively small with an acrylic counter-top humidor as a trial run in the stogie business. Many wine retailers on the West Coast had success with cigars, so I wanted to test the waters here. In August of 1995 I introduced Fat Frank s Stogie Parlor , a walk-in cigar humidor located in the corner of my wine shop.
Cigars are like wine.
Both are a natural product courtesy of Mother Nature. Both are an art to the maker. The more you learn how to appreciate the subject and how they are made, the more you really get into it. I believe cigars are just at the infancy of a trend. As residents of Santa Barbara County for the past 40 years, the Fess Parker family observed the fast-paced development of the local wine industry.