Perdomo

Perdomo is a family-owned and family-operated premium cigar manufacturer headquartered in the Miami area, with agricultural and manufacturing operations in Esteli, Nicaragua. Founded in 1992 by Nick Perdomo Jr. with his father, Nick Sr., the company grew from a garage operation into a vertically integrated manufacturer that manages tobacco from seed and field through fermentation, aging, cigar production, packaging and U.S. distribution.

The modern portfolio is organized around aged tobacco, recurring Connecticut, Sun Grown and Maduro wrapper expressions, and a visible commitment to bourbon barrel aging. Families such as 10th Anniversary Champagne, 20th Anniversary, 30th Anniversary, Double Aged 12-Year Vintage, Habano Bourbon Barrel-Aged and Lot 23 explain the established house. Perdomo Legacy, blended by fourth-generation cigar maker Nicholas Perdomo III, shows how the company is also building its next chapter.

How Perdomo Started

Nick Perdomo Jr. established Nick's Cigar Co. in August 1992 while working as an air traffic controller at Miami International Airport. He and his father began making cigars in the family garage, buying tobacco by the pound and building demand one account at a time. Company-hosted historical material records sales of nearly 10,000 cigars during the first year.

Growth quickly required more room. Production moved from the garage to a 1,000-square-foot building in the Miami area, and the family began buying tobacco by the bale rather than by the pound. The origin story matters because it established the operating pattern that still defines Perdomo: hands-on family leadership, close retailer relationships and reinvestment in tobacco and manufacturing capacity.

Cuban Roots and the Move to Nicaragua

Perdomo's cigar history predates the 1992 company. Nick Sr. and his father, Silvio, worked in the Cuban cigar industry, including at the H. Upmann and Partagas factories. That inherited knowledge helped shape Nick Sr.'s conviction that Nicaragua could support the family's future in tobacco.

In 1995, the family opened its first Nicaraguan factory. Farming and factory investments followed, giving Perdomo control over tobacco grown in Esteli, Condega and Jalapa and over the steps needed to cure, ferment, age, select and manufacture it. Miami remained the commercial base, while Nicaragua became the agricultural and production center.

Family Leadership and Continuity

Perdomo's current executive page identifies Nick Perdomo Jr. as President and CEO and Janine Perdomo as Chief Operating Officer. Their son, Nicholas Perdomo III, serves as National Director of Sales and is presented by the company as a fourth-generation cigar maker. Arthur Kemper serves as Vice President alongside an operating and sales team that supports the family leadership.

The introduction of Perdomo Legacy makes that continuity visible in the portfolio. Nicholas III describes the line as his first project and a tribute to his father. Its use of a newly developed Nicaraguan shade-grown tobacco connects generational succession with Perdomo's long-term investments in farms, agronomy and tobacco aging.

Manufacturing Footprint

Perdomo describes itself as vertically integrated. Its Nicaraguan system includes farms, greenhouses, curing barns, fermentation warehouses, tobacco selection and sorting, cigar production, a box factory and packaging. The company states that tobacco is cultivated across the major growing regions of Esteli, Condega and Jalapa, with Florida supporting headquarters and distribution.

Official production materials describe a highly controlled process: greenhouse protection, hand harvesting, natural curing, multi-year fermentation, wrapper preparation, hand bunching and rolling, draw testing, finished-cigar inspection and aging before packing. Perdomo states that every cigar is draw tested, checked repeatedly through production and aged for at least six to eight months after rolling, depending on the wrapper.

What Makes Perdomo Distinctive

Perdomo's clearest signature is the combination of vertical control and tobacco aging. Many major lines are presented in Connecticut, Sun Grown and Maduro expressions, allowing readers to understand the portfolio by wrapper family rather than by an unmanageable list of sizes. The same structure also supports a range that can move from mild-to-medium Connecticut cigars to fuller Nicaraguan Sun Grown and Maduro blends.

Bourbon barrel aging is another recurring identity marker. The company uses previously charred American white oak barrels as an additional aging stage for selected wrappers and, in certain lines, other components. That technique appears in 10th Anniversary Champagne, Habano Bourbon Barrel-Aged, Double Aged 12-Year Vintage, 30th Anniversary and Legacy, making it part of the manufacturer's system rather than a one-line novelty.

A strong manufacturer page should explain this system without becoming a retail catalog. Exact vitolas, strength labels, tasting notes, scores and matchup results belong on individual cigar pages. The manufacturer profile should stay focused on the family, the farms and factories, the aging approach and the relationships among the principal cigar families.

Perdomo Legacy

Perdomo Legacy is the clearest expression of generational transition. Blended by Nicholas Perdomo III as a tribute to his father, it uses a Nicaraguan shade-grown tobacco developed from Cuban-seed and Cameroon-seed genetics. The line is offered in Connecticut, Nicaraguan Shade Grown and Maduro expressions and places long aging and wrapper development at the center of the story.

30th Anniversary

The 30th Anniversary family celebrates three decades from the 1992 founding. Perdomo presents the box-pressed Connecticut, Sun Grown and Maduro versions with 15-year-old tobaccos. Its role in the portfolio is both commemorative and technical: it extends the company's recurring wrapper structure into one of its longest-aged regular offerings.

10th Anniversary Champagne

The 10th Anniversary Champagne is one of the manufacturer's most recognizable lines. Perdomo says the family was where its technique of bourbon barrel-aging wrapper tobacco began. The Connecticut expression gives the word Champagne its best-known meaning within the brand, while box-pressed Sun Grown and Maduro versions broaden the same family into fuller territory.

Double Aged 12-Year Vintage

Double Aged 12-Year Vintage is built around a two-stage aging statement: ten years of bale aging followed by two years in charred white oak bourbon barrels. Connecticut, Sun Grown and Maduro versions keep the portfolio easy to compare while presenting one of Perdomo's strongest examples of aging as product identity.

Habano Bourbon Barrel-Aged

Habano Bourbon Barrel-Aged begins with tobaccos aged for at least six years before selected wrappers receive additional barrel time. Perdomo states that Connecticut, Sun Grown and Maduro wrappers receive different aging periods. The family demonstrates how the company adjusts one recurring production method to the needs of different wrapper types.

Lot 23

Lot 23 is the portfolio's clearest farm story. Nick Perdomo Sr. and Nick Jr. developed the Esteli plot in 2000, and the line uses filler and binder tobaccos associated with that land. Its single-plot idea gives readers an accessible explanation of why Perdomo's agricultural holdings matter to product identity.

Perdomo in the Ashology Network

On Ashologist.com, the Perdomo manufacturer profile should function as the central company hub. Individual Perdomo evaluations can link back here for family history and manufacturing context, while this page can link outward to cigar-specific tasting, construction, ranking and tournament evidence as those pages are published.

The manufacturer profile should not assign or repeat a public score. Its job is to explain the company and portfolio. Ashology evaluations and Cigar of the Year matchups remain the proper homes for cigar-specific judgment, preserving a clean separation between manufacturer reference material and independent product assessment.