Ri and Keelan Gulotta grew up in New Hampshire, but The Drawing Room really started years later and a couple thousand miles away around a TV watching hockey, a couple of good cigars, and conversations that ran long past when they should have ended. There wasn't one night that did it. It was a slow burn: one cigar, then a standing habit, then something closer to a study, learning the leaf, chasing down every wrapper and blend worth knowing, figuring out why one cigar opens a conversation and another just gets smoked. Eventually that slow burn became a credential; both are now certified cigar sommeliers, trained to guide a room the same way they'd guided each other for years.

Now based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Ri and Keelan built The Drawing Room around the same thing that pulled them together in the first place: a good cigar was never really about the cigar. It's about who's across the table, and how long you're willing to stay. That's what we build for you now.