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The Purveyor ZoneFireside Chat with Lionel MelendiOn October 21, 2019, I had visited my parents Lionel and Karelia Melendi at their home in Vermont. When I arrived at their house, we started to have a conversation about the past. As the day grew into night, the conversations lead us down memory lane — these stories centered around the premium cigar industry. You see, my father was very influential in the New York City tobacconist movement starting back in the early 1960s and progressing into the mid-2000s. My father was not the only Melendi to influence the premium cigar business. My grandfather, Jose Melendi, was very inf...2019-10-2848 min