VISITING CIGAR PERSONALITY
DANIEL MARSHALL
On a recent European trip I got the
opportunity to talk to the Californian
Humidor and cigar ‘dude supreme’ Daniel
Marshall. Here’s my interview:
What came first for you, the cigar or the humidor?
The Humidor was our first design in the DM
collection. 1982 I made a thank you gift for my
girlfriend’s grandfather who insisted that I borrow
the money $15,000 to finish my dream sail boat
from him and not the bank. I thought, what can I
give a man that has everything and asked myself,
what does he enjoy most, golf and Cigars... and
while he was speaking to me that evening by
his pool in his bel air mansion, he was enjoying
a Dunhill Montecruz cigar... so, for two weeks I
worked on a unique 3 cigar case in Teak wood
that became my first patented design. He loved
it and saw the vision, borrow it tomorrow, take
it to Dunhill in Beverly Hills and they will buy
it and you can have it all. Sail around the world,
make cases for Dunhill, live the dream. And he
was right. That’s what I did.... 32 years later... I
launched and created the cigar collection in 1996
when we were travelling the country doing the
Big Smokes with Cigar Aficionado Magazine.
Customers would constantly ask, when are you
going to make a cigar... we would buy it, and enjoy
it the same way we enjoy the humidors we make,
cause we know we can count on the best quality,
the best construction and the finest flavours and
experience.
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