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Hand rolled · small batch

Rolled by hand.
Kept low.

Long-filler cigars, and leaf spliffs: cannabis flower and ground cigar tobacco, rolled inside a whole tobacco leaf. No paper. No machines. No rush.

First line: Chovy Premium Blend, as a cigar or a spliff.

  • Whole-leaf wrappers
  • Rolled one at a time
  • 21+ only
A hand rolled cigar smoking on a workshop bench beside a cured tobacco leaf
The first line

Chovy Premium Blend.

Our first blend comes two ways: as a cigar, or as a spliff. Both start the same way: whole tobacco leaf, cured slow and rolled by the same hands. What goes inside is up to you.

The Chovy Cigar on a bed of cured tobacco leaf Chovy Premium Blend · Cigar

The Chovy Cigar

Full-length filler leaves bunched by hand, held in a binder and finished in a smooth wrapper. An even draw, a slow burn, and an ash that holds.

Blend
Chovy Premium Blend
Filler
Long-filler tobacco, bunched by hand
Wrapper
Whole leaf, no homogenized sheet
Burn
Around an hour

$200 per cigar

A leaf-wrapped spliff beside cannabis flower and ground cigar tobacco Chovy Premium Blend · Spliff

The Chovy Spliff

Cannabis flower mixed with ground cigar tobacco, rolled inside a whole tobacco leaf instead of paper. Burns slower and smoother than a joint, and tastes like a cigar.

Blend
Chovy Premium Blend
Fill
Cannabis flower + ground cigar tobacco
Wrapper
Whole tobacco leaf, no paper
Burn
Around twenty minutes

$200 per spliff

A hand-carved walnut humidor with tobacco leaves carved into the lid, open over a row of cigars
Coming soon

The Hand-Carved Humidor

Solid wood, carved by hand, with tobacco leaves in relief across the lid. Cedar-lined, with a hygrometer and humidifier, sized to keep a box of Chovy exactly where it should be. A small run, each one a little different.

$1,499 each

Made to order. Each one is carved after you order it, so allow about 90 days for it to ship.

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A briar tobacco pipe packed with cigar tobacco and cannabis flower, next to a pipe tamper
How we smoke it

The sploof.

No roll required. Break up cigar tobacco and cannabis flower, mix them loose, and pack the bowl of a regular tobacco pipe. That is a sploof, and it is how we smoke the Chovy blend at the bench.

  1. Crumble cigar tobacco and flower, roughly half and half by volume.
  2. Pack the bowl in three light presses, firmer each time.
  3. Char the top, tamp it, then light it properly and sip it slow.
How it is made

Slow on purpose.

  1. Cure the leaf

    Leaf is aged until it is supple enough to roll without cracking and smooth enough to taste.

  2. Grind the blend

    For spliffs, tobacco is ground and mixed with flower by weight, so every one smokes the same.

  3. Roll by hand

    Each one is bunched, wrapped and capped by hand. Nothing touches a machine.

  4. Rest, then release

    Finished smokes rest before they leave, so the wrapper settles and the draw opens up.

Inside a small backyard workshop at dusk, tobacco leaves hanging to cure over the bench
Dave's Workshop1996
How it started

Out of necessity.

I wrote software for a living. Then the work went to AI, and I spent the next three years unemployed, sending out applications that never came back.

So I went out back. At the far end of my mom's yard there is a little workshop my dad built, and the sign over the door still says Dave's Workshop, 1996. That is where I rolled the first one.

Nobody was handing out jobs, so we made one. Underground Cigars started in that workshop, one leaf at a time, and the Chovy Premium Blend is the first thing to come out of it.

We work in our dad's workshop, not our mom's basement.

From the Fleet SysOps Manifesto, the rules we already lived by as engineers. Turns out they work for rolling too.

Influences Drew Estate, who showed a lot of us that a cigar could break every rule and still be a serious smoke. And the fleet coders who wrote the manifesto we still work by.

No paper.The wrapper is leaf. That is the whole point.
No flavoring.What you taste is tobacco and flower, nothing sprayed on.
No machines.Small batches, rolled one at a time, numbered by the batch.
The list

The first Chovy batch goes to the list.

We are not selling online. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when and where the first batch lands, starting with states where it is legal.