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Pics From Don Pepin Tasting At Belicoso's

The Volusianator

The Volusianator

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What a fantastic time, what a fantastic man. Although he doesn't speak English, conversation was not that difficult. Below are some of the pics I took.

Store Front
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Humidor Pics, this is the largest humidor in IL, and simply amazing!
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Mr. Pepin and myself
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Pepin rolling the first cigar of the night...his!
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From L-R Renee (master roller) Pepin's daughter, Don Pepin
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Pepin Selecting Wrapper Leaf
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Don made a custom baseball bat for one of the employees, it was his birthday
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And a few more that it wouldn't let me put in the original post.

Renee signing my cigar box
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Pepin let me play at the rollers table, cutting wrapper leaf here
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And some goodies I picked up while I was there. The Pepin Black label PC was gifted from Alex.
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Wow! Very nice! What an event to be a part of. So let me ask the Dallas relailors on CP a question... when the hell you gonna get Pepin?

Thanks again for sharing!

mac
 
These are the pics that sack took and asked me to post for him. We all had a frickin' awesome time!

Eshaw99 and Don Pepin Garcia
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L to R: Pepin's Daughter, Pepin, sack
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Pepin and his Daughter
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Pepin showing how it's done
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Pepin rolling
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Close-up
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L to R: tkoepp, indyrob, Eshaw99, KeithS, occifer
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Group Pic
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Can't wait to do this again guys!
 
It's amazing he can take the time to do this kind of hands-on promo work. He must really enjoy it.

But why is he wearing that gaudy shirt! And who would have thought he was that tall! ;)
 
vortex said:
It's amazing he can take the time to do this kind of hands-on promo work. He must really enjoy it.

But why is he wearing that gaudy shirt! And who would have thought he was that tall! ;)
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And so handsome. :laugh:
I have to share my moment of zen with Don Pepin, during a lull around Pepin, i took my chance to talk to him and ask some questions in spanish. He seemed delighted to be able to speak freely and opened up to me, when i had a chance to, i asked him what cigar he enjoyed the most. Pepin brightened up and asked his master roller to move over and proceed to roll his own blend, after taking the cigar in his pocket and putting a wrapper on it, he got up and clipped it and lit it. I can see why he has the reputation that he has, the cigar was perfect, after a few puffs he cleaned the tip with his fingers and offered it to me. What could i do? I took the cigar and just touched it to my lips, being careful not to slobber on it. When i pulled on the cigar there was NO resistance, it was like sucking on a wide straw, no resistance at all. My mouth was immediately filled with the spicyest cigar taste i've ever had, not wanting to look like an idiot i held myself together and exhaled through my nose to taste it and immediately exhaled as much as i could. No sooner did i exhale that my brain started spining and i felt the sweats. All i remember was giving Peoin his cigar back and saying something about "muy macho". He glanced at his daughter and smiled. I just moved back into the crowd and sat down to drink some water, the spice was still with me. The rest of the time i just watched as he smoked that cigar and was obviously enjoying it. Talk about walking with the Gods. WOW! :0
 
I have to share my moment of zen with Don Pepin, during a lull around Pepin, i took my chance to talk to him and ask some questions in spanish. He seemed delighted to be able to speak freely and opened up to me, when i had a chance to, i asked him what cigar he enjoyed the most. Pepin brightened up and asked his master roller to move over and proceed to roll his own blend, after taking the cigar in his pocket and putting a wrapper on it, he got up and clipped it and lit it. I can see why he has the reputation that he has, the cigar was perfect, after a few puffs he cleaned the tip with his fingers and offered it to me. What could i do? I took the cigar and just touched it to my lips, being careful not to slobber on it. When i pulled on the cigar there was NO resistance, it was like sucking on a wide straw, no resistance at all. My mouth was immediately filled with the spicyest cigar taste i've ever had, not wanting to look like an idiot i held myself together and exhaled through my nose to taste it and immediately exhaled as much as i could. No sooner did i exhale that my brain started spining and i felt the sweats. All i remember was giving Peoin his cigar back and saying something about "muy macho". He glanced at his daughter and smiled. I just moved back into the crowd and sat down to drink some water, the spice was still with me. The rest of the time i just watched as he smoked that cigar and was obviously enjoying it. Talk about walking with the Gods. WOW! :0
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I witnessed this from about 15 feet away. If you didn't see what caused sack's reaction, you'd have thought he just did 5 tequila shots in a row :laugh:
 
sack said:
vortex said:
It's amazing he can take the time to do this kind of hands-on promo work. He must really enjoy it.

But why is he wearing that gaudy shirt! And who would have thought he was that tall! ;)
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And so handsome. :laugh:
I have to share my moment of zen with Don Pepin, during a lull around Pepin, i took my chance to talk to him and ask some questions in spanish. He seemed delighted to be able to speak freely and opened up to me, when i had a chance to, i asked him what cigar he enjoyed the most. Pepin brightened up and asked his master roller to move over and proceed to roll his own blend, after taking the cigar in his pocket and putting a wrapper on it, he got up and clipped it and lit it. I can see why he has the reputation that he has, the cigar was perfect, after a few puffs he cleaned the tip with his fingers and offered it to me. What could i do? I took the cigar and just touched it to my lips, being careful not to slobber on it. When i pulled on the cigar there was NO resistance, it was like sucking on a wide straw, no resistance at all. My mouth was immediately filled with the spicyest cigar taste i've ever had, not wanting to look like an idiot i held myself together and exhaled through my nose to taste it and immediately exhaled as much as i could. No sooner did i exhale that my brain started spining and i felt the sweats. All i remember was giving Peoin his cigar back and saying something about "muy macho". He glanced at his daughter and smiled. I just moved back into the crowd and sat down to drink some water, the spice was still with me. The rest of the time i just watched as he smoked that cigar and was obviously enjoying it. Talk about walking with the Gods. WOW! :0
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That flat rocks. Thanks for sharing you "minute with the master"....... :cool:

Best Regards - B.B.S.
 
Great pics Wade and thanks to everyone else for sharing your experience! :thumbs:
 
Sack... what a great story! Thanks for sharing it! And thanks to all who contributed on this thread. It has been one of my favorites. Maybe thats because I'm a good little Pepin whore....

BTW... that was one hell of a roll he put on that "baseball bat" vitola! I'm sure that it smoked like a dream.

Pepin is God

mac
 
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