Join the Smooth Draws Radio Show team at the Nicaraguan Cigar Festival. Our group will travel together between venues, enjoy some fringe benefits and swag and share in plenty of fun and shenanigans. We've developed special friendships with many of the manufacturers and hope to be the catalyst for a fantastic experience. You'll be escorted from the moment you arrive in Nicaragua and throughout the entire trip. You'll be exposed to every facet of the cigar manufacturing process - from the planting of the seeds, to the cultivation, harvesting, fermenting and aging of the tobacco, to the finished premium cigar. The Nicaraguan Chamber of Tobacco is an organization established in 2008 that represents the interests of the most important tobacco growers and cigar makers in Nicaragua. It is constituted by 23 companies that together represent 95% of all the national production of tobacco and cigars. Our objective is to promote the image of Nicaraguan grown tobacco and Nicaraguan made cigars, while defending the interests of our consumers, our companies and our workers.
If you would like to participate in our personally escorted Nicaraguan Cigar Festival tour, please complete the form below. Please do not hesitate if you are serious about this fantastic trip! It has sold out every year! If you have a friend, or friends, interested in this trip, please have them contact us. The trip is open to men and women over 18. We will forward trip reservation forms to complete to reserve a spot on this trip. We will be with you on this trip, every cigar along the way. Smooth draws!
Nicaragua, especially Estelí (known as the cigar tobacco’s capital city), offers you a warm hug of “Puro Sabor” (Pure Taste) as a reward for electing to join fellow cigar enthusiasts from throughout the globe at the 7th International Tobacco Festival, from January 22 - 27, 2018.
JANUARY 22
(MONDAY): THE ARRIVAL
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Organizers from Puro Sabor will be waiting for you in the VIP area of Managua’s Augusto C. Sandino International Airport. They will take you from the airport to the city of Granada. Once checked in at the hotel and registered with the festival, you will have some free time to explore this historic city of Granada. It is quite safe to move around this city both on foot and by bicycle.
JANUARY 23
(TUESDAY): GRANADA – TOURISM, HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE
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After breakfast, you will enjoy the architectural beauty of Granada. It is an enchanting city, known as the “Paris of the Americas” and named as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. You will also take a trip around the islands of Lake Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua), which resulted from the last recorded eruption of Mombacho volcano in 1570. There are more than 360 islets filled with magic, flora and fauna that seem to float in the Great Lake Cocibolca. You'll have the opportunity to engage in water sports, relax on a beach and swim. After lunch, from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM), you'll also have the opportunity to visit the beautiful Mombacho Cigar Factory (see image below), located in a historic mansion called Casa Favilli in downtown Granada.
A welcome dinner is planned for this evening for all in attendance at El Convento, an important historical building and museum.
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JANUARY 24
(WEDNESDAY): FROM GRANADA TO ESTELÍ
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We will leave for the city of Estelí after breakfast. The trip takes approximately two and half hours, but there will be a rest-stop to stretch your legs and, of course, smoke a cigar. When we arrive at midday, lunch will be taken at PANSA/Victor Calvo Factory (a brand new factory).
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In the afternoon, you will visit different cigar factories in Estelí. At night, the venue for the festival’s inauguration and dinner will be at Joya de Nicaragua. This was the first 100% Nicaraguan cigar factory established in the country that manufactures handmade premium cigars.
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JANUARY 25
(THURSDAY): PLANTATION TOURS
The city’s main cigar factories will open their doors for you. You will have the chance to meet the owners, who will personally show you around and tell you everything you need to know about each of the processes involved in manufacturing the main brands. And of course you will have the opportunity to try those brands and become quite an expert. You will have lunch at Cigar Rings / Sancho Oset. .
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After lunch, you will enjoy a panel discussion in which experts will share thier impressions of the industry. At the end of the afternoon, you will have a few hours to rest and recharge your batteries before a traditional white dinner and party (where you'll adorn your special guayabera shirt) accompanied by music and dance with colorful national folk costumes at Plaza Domingo Gadea.
JANUARY 26
(FRIDAY): PLANTATION AND FACTORY VISITS & GALA PARTY
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Your activities will continue with a tour of plantations to see how the growth and production of tobacco plants takes place in harmony with the environment. Lunch will be at the Las Limas PROCENICSA curing barn (Oliva Tobacco Company).
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The factory visits will end in the afternoon, but there is still more to celebrate. We have reserved the last night for an extraordinary gala dinner to bring the festival to a close. The event location is still being determined. It is a semi-formal affair and will also include the traditional charity auction in benefit of social projects in the city of Estelí.
JANUARY 27
(SATURDAY): TRANSFER TO AIRPORT IN MANAGUA
Transfer back to Managua for flight home.
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You will take away with you the aroma of a great tobacco nation and the esteem of an industry with a rich history, high quality levels and a true human face.
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NICARAGUAN CIGAR FESTIVAL OVERVIEW
REGISTER TODAY - LIMITED SPACE
Single attendee (private room): $1,750 per person
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Special Smooth Draws pricing (double occupancy only): $1,550
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Click on the following link for the the "Trip Reservaton Form."
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Complete the registration form and email to info@SmoothDraws.com, or mail to Smooth Draws, 212 Autumn Trail, Suite B24, Acworth, Georgia 30102.
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Send a check (made out to Smooth Draws) for 100% of the trip price (depending on which package you've selected).
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Alternatively, we can send you a bill for the trip via an e-Statement.
NICARAGUAN CIGAR FESTIVAL JANUARY 22 - 27, 2018
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