Phase 2: Father's Day Series
Don't Know a Damn Thing About Cigars
Your kids gave you a cigar for Father's Day. You've never smoked one. This book gets you through the next thirty minutes without embarrassing yourself.
Co-author, The Modern Cigar Library
Augusto Reyes
Cigar lounge owner in Coral Gables since 2004. Cuban storyteller. Co-author on the Father's Day and Groomsman series.
Augusto Reyes opened his lounge in Coral Gables in 2004 and has been initiating clueless beginners into cigars ever since. He grew up in a Cuban family that took cigars seriously, started smoking himself in 1989, and learned the lounge business by working in three different shops before opening his own. He is Miguel Solano's best man, the man who handed Miguel his first real cigar (Fuente Hemingway Short Story, 1997), and the voice behind the Father's Day and Groomsman books in The Modern Cigar Library. He writes the way he talks: direct, warm, with a Cuban storyteller's instinct for the right detail.
Smoking since: 1989
Location: Coral Gables, Florida
Books: 6
Voice and approach
StorytellerDirect Cuban warmthLounge owner pragmatismNo tolerance for posturingQuick to laugh
Ask Augusto about
- Lounge culture and etiquette
- Father's Day cigar gifting
- Wedding cigar bars and live torcedors
- How to handle a beginner cigar moment
- Cuban-American cigar tradition
Books by Augusto Reyes
Phase 2: Father's Day Series
The New Dad's Survival Guide to Cigars
Someone gave you a celebratory cigar and you have a newborn. This book covers that cigar plus the next ten years of dad cigar moments.
Phase 2: Father's Day Series
The Dad's Guide to Premium Cigars
You've been smoking cheap cigars for years. You're ready to upgrade. This book gets you there without the snobbery middle step.
Phase 2: Groomsman Series
The Groomsman's Cigar Cheat Sheet
You're in a tux, you're holding a cigar, the photographer wants the shot, and you have no idea what you're doing. This is for that moment.
Phase 2: Groomsman Series
The Groomsman's Guide to Cigars
If you're the groomsman in charge of cigars, this is the planning guide. Bar setup, quantities, pricing, weather contingencies, the works.
Phase 2: Groomsman Series
The Wedding Cigar Experience
The luxury wedding cigar playbook. Custom bands, live torcedors, signature blends, and the white-glove logistics for the high-end wedding.