You may recognize the name Rick Rodriguez from his long and impressive career (spanning more than two decades) with General Cigars. After learning from Benji Menendez and Ernesto Perez-Carillo, two of the celebrated cigar figures in cigar history, Rick would go on to conceptualize the Amazon Basin series, Flathead, and others for CAO.
Now, he’s venturing out into his own brand under the West Tampa Tobacco label! Each cigar is crafted by hand at the Garmendia factory in Nicaragua. The Black Series is the stronger of the two blends, consisting of higher priming wrapper and filler leaves.