Our face-to-face meeting comes to a time when my father was smoking cigars and I got more courageous as I was older. I approached the cigar without holding, carrying, cutting, smoking, watching my father and, of course, imitating a bit. After enough observation, I now began to experience the character of different cigars myself and learn about their personality. After that moment, my relationship with the cigar became sincere, in line with my own preferences and tastes, and it still continues to evolve.

Cigar has taught me a lot about himself and his surroundings during my journey with him, and he still teaches. He shared with me a thousand and one details about himself, from his plant to his leaf, from his cultivation to his wrapping. Besides, it has opened the door to a different world, from those who enjoy the cigar to the accessories used for this pleasure. He made new and enjoyable friendships and acquaintances.

So, to share such a valuable journey, I first started a simple blog, in my opinion. A year later, with the interest and influence of those who shared my journey, the blog switched to the current website format.

When I first started writing the blog, of course I had to find a name. After a short thought process, reading newspapers, novels and magazines in the cigar winding halls called Galera, in order to inform Torcedors, namely cigar wrappers, and to make the winding more enjoyable, taking Torcedors on different journeys while winding, I thought el Lector would be a very appropriate name. Here I am trying to accompany you on the journeys of cigar lovers, like el Lector in Galera, with what I wrote and shared.