Mike’s Cigars

Miami is one of the most popular places in Florida. Visitors and locals alike troop to the famous Miami Beach and get mesmerized by the sight of famous celebrities sitting beside each other, enjoying their tan. Cigar aficionados who happen to visit Miami will surely want to find out where Mike’s Cigars is located.

Mike’s Cigars is not just your ordinary store in Miami, Florida much less with cigar connoisseurs. It is a landmark in this Sunshine State, in fact one of the most striking pieces you will see once you gaze your eyes around. It provides everything you need about cigars once you are in this part of the country.

Mike’s Cigars partly became what it is today when way back in 1950, a Brooklyn lad set foot on Florida and put up his business. This once a pushcart peddler boy became the icon in cigar retail industry in Florida. The other part of Mike’s Cigars’ success is due to the unwavering passion of this Cuban-born fellow, Oscar Barouchin, whom Mike met in 1982 and promised to transfer the company to Barouchin just when he retired.

Mike and Oscar collaborated to distribute famous brands of cigars. The company pioneered the mail-order cigar for those cigar lovers that are located away from Florida. During Oscar’s rein as the big boss of Mike’s Cigars, he commissioned, Manolo Quesada, an expert tobacco farmer and hand-rolled cigar maker from the Dominican Republic, a country that is also famous for its own brand of cigars. Since Macanudo was the famous brand in America tow decades ago, that Mike’s Cigars sold both in retail and wholesale, Barouchin ordered Manolo to produce a cigar that has the same flavor and taste with macanudo. The Licinciados was the name they gave to that cigar. Currently, the Licinciados brand sold close to a million every year.

Another brand that Mike’s Cigars acquired through the years was Bauza. They bought this brand from Fuente, famous cigar manufacturer. Fuente is one of the best producers of high-premium cigars in the market. Mike’s is also selling Flor Del Cano brand, which is an old Cuban cigar. Other brands are Puros San James and King David.

Due to the increasing demand brought by competition, Mike’s has just put up their own website where cigar patron can order online. The store is selling only cigars and nothing but cigars. The other challenge that the company is facing right now, is the possibility of the U.S. lifting its ban on all products from Cuba inclining cigars, though that concern will have to take some more years before it could actually happen.


As of now Mike’s Cigars is enjoying a tremendous benefit of the popularity of their own cigar brands. That alone is something to make the company get busy.