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Guy Fieri And Cigar Aficionado Light Up South Beach

Feb 27, 2026 | By David Savona
Guy Fieri And Cigar Aficionado Light Up South Beach
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Guy Fieri, mugging it up with fellow chefs Marcel Vigneron, Viet Pham, Le Anne Wong and Shirley Chung at the Knuckle Sandwich cigar and Santo Tequila booth.

For 25 years, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival has lit up Miami with incredible events combining tasty food and wonderful wines. Last week, the four-day event also included a very special late-night cigar and spirits party featuring Guy Fieri and Cigar Aficionado magazine.

South Beach Wine and Food Festival
Enjoying a host of handmade cigars, fine spirits and light bites atop the Kimpton Angler’s Hotel South Beach during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

Cigars & Spirits hosted by Guy Fieri presented by Cigar Aficionado took place atop the multi-tiered rooftop of the Kimpton Angler’s Hotel South Beach where hundreds of people enjoyed free-flowing spirits and an abundance of cigars.

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Guy Fieri and Erik Espinosa, the one-two punch behind the Knuckle Sandwich cigar brand.

The cigar companies in attendance were A.J. Fernandez, Altadis U.S.A., Crowned Heads and OZ Family Cigars, Drew Estate, Knuckle Sandwich and Espinosa Cigars, My Father, Oliva, Plasencia and the PCA.

The spirits list was equally impressive: 3 Sons Brewing Co., Arran Single Malt, Barceló, Cardenal Mendoza, Dingle, Hine Cognac, Nikka Whisky, Rhum Barbancourt, Santo Tequila and Smoke Wagon Bourbon. 

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The Oliva Cigar station, one of many at the event.

Murder Point Oysters were served up on the half shell, along with sliders and other light bites. 

Fieri was the star of the event, posting for photo after photo and puffing away on his Knuckle Sandwich cigar brand. The party began at 11 pm, and finished in the early morning hours.

South Beach Wine and Food Festival
Relaxing at the cigar party, which began at 11:00 pm and finished in the early hours of Saturday morning.

All net proceeds from the South Beach Wine & Food Festival benefit the Florida International University Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management.

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