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    Journey to greatness

    May 03, 2021 5 minutes
    WRITTEN BY MAGGIE KIMBERL

    Jonathan Drew, known to friends and fans as JD, is the founder of Drew Estate Cigars. He started as an enthusiast, and his career has spanned from retailer to distributor to starting his own cigar manufacturing company, Drew Estate, where he remains president today.

    “I went from owning my own cigar shop, to moving to Nicaragua a few years following the end of the Sandinista-Contra War,” recalls Drew. “I had visited this beautiful country numerous times as a retailer, way before most Americans were venturing to Nicaragua. In 1998, I made the difficult decision to leave my family, my friends, Brooklyn and Manhattan, and move to this war-torn country with only $1,700 in my pocket. This was really that ‘aha’ moment. It was a deep dive into the unknown, and a journey into

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