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CIGARMAKER UPDATE
Phil Zanghi, Indian Motorcycle Cigars
Full Circle Today’s Indian Motorcycle, and its companion premium cigar launched in 2015, have followed a long and winding road, second only to cigar maker Phil Zanghi’s own professional journey. Once again, Zanghi is riding high at the center an iconic, and very personal, American classic. > BY FRANK SELTZER 18 SMOKESHOP October 2019
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he cigar business is in Phil Zanghi’s blood. After all, what high school senior starts his own cigar company? That’s what Zanghi did in 1991, when he founded Indian Tabac. That company has come and gone, but Zanghi has continued on. For a while, he left the premiums to help partner Danny Sinclair on the mass market side, but eventually came back—first with his Debonaire line and now his latest brand, Indian Motorcycle, which brings him full circle.
