This Cigar Project Was Born the Day My Father Passed Away | Jeremiah Meerapfel | Box Press Ep. 95

Get out your handkerchiefs! A cigar talk to share with your dad or other influential man in your life. In November 2003, Jeremiah Meerapfel's father Richard died suddenly of a heart attack. Richard was heralded with saving Cameroon/Central African wrapper tobacco from extinction in the early 1990s. Jeremiah and his brother Joshua carried on their father's work. In honor of their father, the Meerapfels launched a new cigar category of limited-production UberLuxury cigars. For the rest of us, if you've smoked a cigar with a Cameroon wrapper, Jeremiah has probably touched, farmed, cured, processed and shipped that tobacco.

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00:00 Cold open

00:59 Wears the Borsalino hat worn by his father and grandfather

01:50 Cameroon wrapper is the most challenging premium tobacco leaf to grow

05:50 The trauma of the sudden death of a father

08:04 Carrying on your father's legacy

10:46 I know I could never fill my father's shoes

17:34 Balancing fatherhood and family

21:19 Every day, make a difference in a positive way

28:51 The first Meerapfel cigar released in 80 years

30:17 The first sustainable cigar box in the world

32:59 Cigars made from the oldest tobaccos

34:35 Boveda integrated into UberLuxury cigar packaging

40:12 "If you don't do it with passion, don't do it at all."