What Inspired the Creation
of the Nestor 747
What do you get when you combine four friends with a total of 200 years experience in the cigar industry, a $500.00 lobster dinner at a Spanish restaurant, a long discussion of what cigars used to be like and the discovery of two secret stockpiles of super-grade leaf? You get, three years later, the Nestor 747.
Here's the story of this cigar in a nutshell; Benny Gomez, Jr., a Cuban descendant of a long line of cigar leaf merchants, Nestor Plasencia, a descendant of a long line of Cuban cigar makers currently running the largest Honduran cigar factory, and Mark and Alex Goldman, the third and fourth generation of cigar importers and distributors, were having dinner one night.
As the discussion developed, both the cigar maker and the tobacco merchant revealed that they each had been warehousing prize tobacco bales, waiting for the perfect opportunity for use. Mark mentioned that the market was desperate for a truly great cigar. Exchanging glances of recognition, the men smiled and decided to make a project of it.
Favoring tradition, the group developed their strategy. Cuban cigars have a size called the Churchill that is standard in their country - a 7 inch cigar with a ring gauge of 47, and this is the size they decided to produce. Requiring special molds, Nestor tracked down and purchased the molds from a defunct Cuban factory. Benny delivered the prize bales to the Honduran rollers and Nestor began the long process of blending the cigar.
The result of this three year project just concluded is what they are calling Nestor 747. Only one step remained: Could they wait to develop the fancy packaging? 'To hell with it,' they said, 'this cigar is too good to hold back.' A new cigar was born.
The Nestor 747 is 7 5/8 by 47 and is box pressed in quantities of 25. This hand made, long filler cigar is extremely limited.
Nestor 747
Series II Vintage 1989
The Nestor 747 is a cigar that was born out of devotion for the old 'Cuban style' of cigar making. The new Nestor 747 Series II Vintage 1989 is the second generation of the Nestor 747 cigar project and is boxed in cabinets of 50 cigars. Intended to be laid down and aged, the cigar uses a vintage crop of 1989 tobacco for it's wrapper. Unlike the original Nestor 747 which is a box pressed (squared) cigar, the Series II are left in their original cylindrical state.
The naturally sweet, super-premium Ecuadorian wrapper is the secret to this cigar. When Benny Gomez found this wrapper, through a leaf merchant who represents a small consortium of growers in Ecuador, he committed to every leaf that the growers could produce on behalf of the same group that brought the original Nestor to life.
The tobacco that is used for the binder and filler has been aged for a period of 6-7 years before it was rolled. Once the cigars are rolled, the bunches of 50 cigars are put back in the aging room for another nine months prior to boxing. This process insures that the tobacco has married into a unique blend that we are sure you will enjoy.
Key to the cigars appeal and uniqueness is the tremendous amount of expertise and care that goes into making this cigar. When the group that formed one fateful night over a lobster dinner determined that they would be doing a vintage series of the Nestor 747, they provided the resources for master cigar-maker Nestor Plasencia to build a new facility at his rolling factories in Danli, Honduras. In order to ensure the stringent quality controls that the group demanded, they hired two industry icons to oversee production, Evelio Oviedo and Ernesterio Fife.
Vintage 747
7 5/8 X 47
Natural Wrapper
Vintage 654
6 X 54
Natural Wrapper
Vintage 454
4 X 54
Natural and Maduro Wrappers
Natural Shown
Imported exclusively by House of Oxford Distributors and available at Mom's Cigars
All cigars subject to availability and prices subject to change without notice
Produced by the cigar smokin' guys and gals at Fuji Publishing Group.
Fuji Publishing Group is not responsible for error, typos, or omissions.
Jump back to the Fuji Publishing Group Cigar Page
Jump back to the Fuji Publishing Group Home World
This URL is http://fujipub.com/nestor/index.html
Copyright © 1995 -1998 
Fuji Publishing Group All rights reserved