Don "Pepin" Garcia Question

I've read a bit of the story, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I know that he left a long time ago and his family was the main consideration. As with others who left (Torano, etc), starting over from scratch is a really difficult thing. And in their case, they had to start over growing tobacco in different countries with different conditions.

Tobacco is a lot like grapes, as most of us know, so getting a grape / leaf from one place to taste like one from another is VERY hard. In my opinion, Nicaragua is now like the Napa Valley of the cigar world -- it started out trying to be like Cuba, but is now it's own (some feel even better) animal altogether.

Now I've only smoked a few isoms, but none of them were as good as some of the Pepin-blended sticks I smoke from Tatuaje and the like.