West Tampa Tobacco Company Introduces Third Regular Production Line: West Tampa Red

Less than a year after the inception of West Tampa Tobacco Company, the brain child of former CAO master blender and the face of the brand Rick Rodriguez with his business partner Gus Martinez, the company is introducing a third regular production line. The West Tampa Red is added to the existing White and Black lines.

The cigars are made at Garmendia Cigars Co. in Estelí, Nicaragua just like the other lines and use a Mexican San Andres wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler. There will be three sizes, a Robusto, Toro and Gigante. All come in boxes of 20 cigars.

“West Tampa Red gave me the opportunity to sit down with the factory and really focus on creating a blend that I enjoy,” said Rick Rodriguez, master blender and co-owner of West Tampa Tobacco Co., via a press release. “Normally when I blend cigars, I don’t blend for what I like, I blend cigars for what my fans enjoy. Red will be a reflection of what I believe is the next piece to lay in the West Tampa puzzle, a full-bodied cigar that delivers the full flavour consumers have come to enjoy from West Tampa.”