“A cigar aficionado since he was a teen, the 26-year-old Houston resident left a career as a chef to concentrate on a distribution business for his custom-made, small-batch cigars from Nicaragua…”
Chip Hight was the executive chef at the *17 Restaurant in the historic Alden Hotel in Houston, Texas when he decided to use his well developed pallet for making cigars. He teamed up with Lorenzo Briones who has a small family owned tabacalera in Esteli, Nicaragua. Lorenzo learned [...]
Featured in City biz list Houston: View The Full Article Here BRYAN, Texas – Messina Hof, one of the fastest growing and most award-winning wineries and resorts in Texas, announces a new partnership with Hight Cigars to produce a Messina Hof port barrel-aged infused cigar that will be available in Fall 2011. Chip Hight, a [...]
Featured on Smoking Hot Cigar Chick, view the original article here. Have cigar, will travel. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of joining Chip Hight of Hight Cigar for a “pub” crawl featuring a night of cigars and scotch on the town. I say pub crawl but it was more like a steakhouse crawl [...]
Featured in Houston’s Modern Luxury Magazine. View article in full on page 91. Modern Luxury
Featured in Houston’s Modern Luxury Magazine. View the full entry on page 70.
“Chip Hight tries to turn his love of cigar smoking into a thriving business”
