"The “Meir” Master Blend honors Meir MEERAPFEL, the great-great grandfather of the current family generation. Meir was heavily influenced by his forefathers: tobacco merchants traveling across the oceans to trade the sacred leaf. He grew up with a dream that soon turned into a vision; a MEERAPFEL cigar, manufactured by his very own craftswomen and -men, rolled with leaves from his farms. Vision turned into history when Meir built the original MEERAPFEL Cigar factory in September of 1876, in the village of Untergrombach, Germany. The Genesis.