“I had no intention of changing what I do for a living until I came down here and smoked one of these cigars,” Lynd said. “That’s when I knew I had to be part of this.”

“It was time Kentucky made a good cigar,” Mobley said.

This decision led Mobley to Texas where three Cubans taught him how to roll cigars. Mobley later went to the Dominican Republic and lived with a family to further his skills in cigar rolling.

He has converted one of his barns into a cigar shop where he stores tobacco he has handpicked from places like Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Mobley also puts a little bit of Kentucky in every one of his cigars.

“You can’t use too much because Kentucky tobacco is so strong,” Mobley said.

“I’m coming up with a wrapper leaf grown here in Kentucky, but it’s too strong right now,” Mobley said. “It won’t be ready until four years down the road.”