Humidification – Part II

Humidification - Part II

SO, you have decided that you need a humidor – and now you need to work out how big it should be. This is a bit of a ‘how long is a piece of string’ type dilemma. Let us give you a word to the wise – get a bigger one than you’ll think you’ll need!

Cigar Storage Wisdom – Part I

Cigar Storage Wisdom - Part I

HOW you store your cigars is of crucial importance to how they will smoke. If you’re a seasoned cigar lover, you can be forgiven for neglecting this crucial element of the passion and forgetting how key it is to every aspect of enjoying cigars that follows on from its deployment. Time, we feel, for a little cigar storage 101 – which may spill over into a blog or two…

Tutored Leaf Tasting

Tutored Leaf Tasting

I HAVE attended and hosted hundreds of cigar events over the years, and many of these were notched up during the dreaded lockdown when we discovered the benefits of communal online get-togethers for the first time.

Porto

Porto

THE latest in our series of exclusive stories from the pen of NICK HAMMOND sees our intrepid explorer plunging headfirst into the wonders of Portugal…

Dortmund

Dortmund

Ah, the smell of Dortmund in the Autumn. I’ve come to love my seasonal jaunts to this funny little German town – usually, it’s a lovely tail end to Summer, with a wistful, melancholy air – and yet this year was the first time the great and the good (and me) of the cigar industry were able to gather for the first time in three years.