Avo #7

Avo Uvezian was born in 1926, the son of a family of musicians in Beirut who dreamed of becoming a great musician. Avo worked hard at becoming a pianist and eventually moved to New York where he studied at the famous Julliard School of Music. Avo's dream had come true - he had established his career as a musician. In the early 80s Avo opened a restaurant and piano bar in Puerto Rico and discovered his love for cigars. In about 1982 he met the master cigar producer Hendrik Kelner in the Dominican Republic and by 1988 the first AVO had been sold in New York. Kelner and Uvezian had started with 100,000 cigars in the first year, and in the third the number had already risen to 750,000. Today they sell over three million cigars worldwide. A medium bodied cigar with a fair amount of spice to it, the panel all agreed that this is a good cigar for any time of day. With a silky smooth Connecticut Shade wrapper and Dominican wrapper and binder, the quality of this cigar is apparent right from the get go. Perfectly rolled with no soft spots, you will quickly see why the panel choose this one to feature.