Over the past few years, Jochy Blanco has become a power in the cigar industry. He is best known as a tobacco grower and the owner of the Tabacalera Palma factory. Tabacalera Palma is known more recently for brands such as Boutique Blends, Matilde Cigars, Villiger, and Las Cumbres Tabaco, but it is a factory […]
La Galera Cigars is a premium cigar brand owned by Jochy Blanco. For many years Blanco has been best known for supplying tobacco, as well as producing cigars, for many brands out of his Tabacalera Palma factory in the Dominican Republic. In 2015, Blanco acquired a company known as IndianHead Cigars from industry veteran Bill Bock. Simultaneously, Blanco […]
Late in 2015, Jochy Blanco, the acclaimed tobacco grower and owner of the Tabacalera Palma factory acquired Indianhead Cigars from Bill Bock and simultaneously launched his premium cigar brand La Galera Cigars. The 2016 IPCPR Trade Show would be the big launch for La Galera as Blanco would introduce five blends. This year didn’t see any new lines from La […]
At this year’s IPCPR Trade Show, Jochy Blanco’s La Galera brand unveiled a new San Andres wrapped La Galera Maduro and the new La Galera 1936 Box Pressed. However, Blanco had one more cigar to showcase, and this one is a limited edition that is a San Andres Maduro in a box-pressed. The cigar is called […]
Jochy Blanco’s La Galera brand now has a maduro offering. At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, the La Galera Maduro was officially launched. It was one of three new blends added to the La Galera line. The La Galera Maduro complements the previously released La Galera Connecticut and La Galera Habano lines. In addition, the […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Jochy Blanco’s IndianHead Cigars’ introduced a new line of cigars called the La Galera 1936 Box Pressed. It is one of two cigars to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Tabacalera Palma, the factory owned by Blanco. The La Galera 1936 Box Pressed derives its name from the fact that 1936 […]
The La Galera Connecticut is one of two premium lines made by Tabacalera Palma’s Jochy Blanco. For many years Blanco and Tabacalera Palma have grown tobacco and made cigars for many of the industry’s leading brands. Last year, Blanco made a strategic move – that to brand owner when he acquired IndianHead Cigars from Bill Bock. […]
Over the past few years Jochy Blanco has become a power in the cigar industry in terms of tobacco growing and manufacturing. He has supplied tobacco and produced cigars out of his Tabacalera Palma operation in the Dominican Republic for some leading brands. Last year, Blanco made a strategic move – that to brand owner when […]
IndianHead Cigars has announced it will release a ten count sampler of its La Galera brand offerings called the La Galera Exclusive Sampler. The samplers will contain both a five sizes of the La Galera line in both the La Galera Connecticut and La Galera Habano lined. The samplers will contain three vitolas geared for […]
Back in November, Tabacalera Palma owner Jochy Blanco announced he had acquired IndianHead Cigars, a distributor of value-priced cigars. Concurrent with that news was the announcement that Blanco had created La Galeera, an all-new handmade premium cigar bran that would fall under the IndianHead umbrella. This past week, the two offerings in the La Galera line – the […]
