Tag: new world cigars

Summertime

THERE used to be a myriad of choices. Back in the day, we would have been offering you Por Larranaga Petit Corona, El Rey Del Mundo Choix Supreme, Hoyo Double Coronas and perhaps a dainty Du Maire or Du Prince.

The Circus Has Left Town

AFTER three days of endless smokeathons, meeting up with old friends and making new ones and learning more about the fabulous world of the Habano cigar, the Habanos World Days have moved on to pastures new, leaving the aroma of extinguishing cigars in the heat of a London summer.

Cigar Cafe

NICK HAMMOND delves deep to tell us what he feels is missing from London’s wonderful cigar store jigsaw puzzle…

Winds of Change

THERE is considerable turmoil in the cigar world right now. Change is something a lot of us fear, but it’s also one the certain thing in an uncertain world. Like it or not, change is coming.

Welcome Back

WE stumble, blinking and shivering, into the New Year. The mad scramble and endless ennui of the festive break is already a fading dream. The reality of January is a cold, dark and looong tunnel.

Mexcalito

THE warmth of good company – plus that from some bonus heat lamps; some excellent appetisers; spirits galore; topped off by a fantastic example of how good Cuban cigarmaking can be when it concentrates.

Timeless Pleasures: A Journey Through the World of Cuban Cigars

When people ask me what, in my opinion, the biggest luxury in the world is, I always have one answer. It is time! Time is something nobody has more of than anyone else. Time is the equalizer of everything and everyone.

Vive Les Cigares!

I’M in my post-holiday blues funk at the moment, so I thought – if you’d be good enough to indulge me – that I’d take the opportunity to bore you with a little something personal for this week’s blog.