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“Back in October, I spent a few days at Fábrica Oveja Negra in Estelí with James Brown and Angela Brown, my second visit to their factory. Then drove down to San Juan del Sur to crash with Skip for the weekend.
I was telling him how much I love coming to Nicaragua: the culture, the language, the tobacco, the blending. I told him it’s funny how a lot of cigars get built from a distance: a message to the factory, a note to make it creamier or stronger, and the brand owner’s name goes on the band. Maybe they come down for Puro Sabor, pose for a few pictures, and call it a trip. Now, plenty of people genuinely spend a ton of time in the factory, but people do, do this.
Reminded me of how The Postal Service made Give Up. Jimmy Tamborello builds the track, ships it off, Ben Gibbard lays down vocals, and they’re never even in the same room. But both names are on the record. Nobody pretends Tamborello didn’t build it.
Cigars don’t always work that way. The guy actually in the factory every day, picking the leaf, keeping your blend consistent run after run, usually gets none of the credit.
Skip’s response: “Sounds like a ghostwriter… no, a ghost blender.”
That’s who this is for. A nod to the ones with no spotlight, just doing the work, and to people like James, Angela, and Skip, who packed up and built a whole new life in Nicaragua from scratch.
That’s where Ligador Fantasma came from.”
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