Domain Cigars has announced the launch of Domain Distribution, a new company that will provide distribution services for clients of Tabacalera Familia Disla S.A., the factory that makes Domain’s products, as well as the related Pariah Cigars brand. As part of that announcement, the new company announced that its first client is Los Amigos Cigars, which will make its U.S. debut under the agreement.
Los Amigos Cigars was founded in 2024 by three friends, Walter Saes, Eduardo Lahsen and Pedro Ramos. Saes, who hails from São Paulo, Brazil, took his love of cigars to a level few reach, becoming the Habanosommelier World Champion in 2015 in Cuba, winning the annual competition that tests not just knowledge of the Cuban cigar portfolio, but also agriculture, pairings, and other aspects of the complete Habanos S.A. experience. Lahsen, who was born in Chile, as been a cigar smoker for over 25 years, and serves as the company’s Spanish-language brand ambassador. Ramos, who was born in South Africa, raised in Peru and educated in Spain, got into cigars with his father and their company, AmanoCigars, which brought New World Cigars to South Africa. They also opened a cigar lounge and online shop.
Currently, Los Amigos Cigars offers four cigars:
- Epiphany, a 5 x 50 robusto that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, Indonesian Besuki binder, and a filler that contains Dominican ligero from Navarrete with Nicaraguan visos from Jalapa and Pueblo Nuevo and seco from Condega. It is described as a medium-bodied profile marked by bright sweetness, grounded earth, and balanced complexity. It is priced at $12.99 per cigar.
- The Sacred Blend is a 5 x 56 grand robusto that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, Indonesian Besuki binder, and a filler that combines Dominican ligero from Navarrete, Nicaraguan ligero from Condega, viso from Ometepe and seco from Condega. It is described as a medium-bodied profile that moves through mineral-rich earth, warm spice, honey, aromatic cedar and a composed, creamy finish. It is priced at $13.99 per cigar.
- Legacy of the Leaf is the fullest-bodied cigar in the lineup, with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, an Indonesian Besuki binder, and a Nicaraguan filler of ligeros from Estelí and Condega, viso from Pueblo Nuevo and seco from Condega. Those tobaccos combine to offer a profile of earth, pepper and leather that develops into bittersweet chocolate, roasted espresso, and a lingering spice. It is offered in a 4 1/2 x 60 box-pressed short gordo vitola and priced at $14.49 per cigar.
- Hedonism rounds out the offerings, a 6 x 52 toro that uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, a binder from the Condega region of Nicaragua, and a filler that contains Pennsylvania broadleaf ligero, Dominican ligero from Navarrete, and Nicaraguan viso and seco from Estelí. Its profile is described as full in character, with a dark sweetness, molasses, dried fruit, spice, and a deep, velvety finish. It has an MSRP of $16.49 per cigar.
“Every blend carries its own identity, but they are united by the same discipline,” said Saes in a press release. “We respect tradition deeply, yet we are not confined by it. Our purpose is to search, to refine and to create cigars that reward attention from the first draw to the final moment.”
The company says that no leaf used in its blends is less than three years old. All four cigars are presented in 20-count boxes that come stamped with the production year of the cigars. They are all available for retailers to order through Domain Distribution. Los Amigos Cigars also has distribution in South Africa and Chile, with plans to launch in Brazil in the works.
For Domain Distribution, the opportunity to launch a distribution service for the brands making their cigars at Tabacalera Familia Disla S.A. meant it could provide greater service by leveraging its established systems.
“For a manufacturing customer entering the United States, producing and importing cigars is only part of the work,” the company said in a press release. “Brands must also navigate state licensing, retailer transactions, invoicing, payment collection, order processing, fulfillment, sales attribution, and ultimately reconciliation and settlement back to the brand. Domain Distribution brings those functions into one operating structure.”
Domain Distribution will provide merchant-of-record services, wholesale ordering, sales, fulfillment, retailer support, reconciliation, and brand settlement through one connected system, including an updated platform it is developing and plans on launching in the near future, and which will also provide tools for retailers to manage inventory and orders while providing analytics and additional information.
Domain Distribution, which is based in Kansas City, Kan., added that it is close to announcing its second client. The company noted that it is not accepting brands that are not made at Tabacalera Familia Disla S.A. due to the way that its software and platform are integrated into the factory’s operation, making it incompatible with third-party factories.
Images courtesy of Los Amigos Cigars.
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