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Guy Fawkes

Good grief! never mind Guy Fawkes night it  sounds like I am in a war zone tonight and for the last week.I don’t think I have ever heard so many fireworks going off…and its raining!

 

Sadly I can’t go out in the rain this evening as my cigar may be extinguished so I’m kicking back with my favourite Partagas P2, now available in tubes

 

Partagas Serie P No. 2 Tubed

 

 

http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/partagas-serie-p-536.html ( how cool…a piramides in a tube!)

 

and my current favourite Scotch

 

Allt A Bhainne 15 year old whisky

 


 

Our Christmas range is just about complete on all our websites and I reckon there is just about something for everyone.This is my favourite new addition to our range http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/montecristo-seleccion-case-p-5469.html sheer class and lots of wow factor.

 

I zoomed up to my Glasgow and Edinburgh shops last week and their hamper gift range are now ready to roll http://www.globalwhiskyshop.com/christmas-gifts-gift-hampers-c-360_398.html ready made up hampers as well as custom made samplers…very impressive.

 

I’ll be in my Chester and Liverpool shops this Tuesday to see if I can find some nice mature cigars at the back of the humidors:-) There’s usually something I have forgot about lurking there just waiting to be discovered:-)

 

The following week I’ll be on my way to Havana for the Partagas Festival that I love to attend every year,staying at the Nacional and looking forward to seeing lots of my Havana herfing buddies…oh and I hear the weather is hot and sunny,just what I need:-)

 

Have a great weekend

 

Peaceful puffing

 

 

Mitchell

At last English Market Selection LE’s!

Great news 🙂 just heard that the new 2008 limited edition Havanas are about to be shipped to us from Hunters and Frankau:

 


 


 


 

Of course we will be making them available in samplers and singles as well

 

I smoked all three of them over the weekend and can confirm that they are all quite delightful although my favourite has to be the Partagas. The blend reminds me of a pre 1994 Partagas SD4

 

Our whisky and cigar shops Robert Graham Ltd http://www.whisky-cigars.co.uk/ are now offering an incredible range of hampers made up to order and if you mention C.Gars Ltd when ordering,they will bonus up your orders with some rather delicious whisky flavoured fudge…yummmmmm

 

OK so I’m off to my favourite hang out Boisdales in Belgravia with my team for an evening of good food,jazz and some great smokes….could be a late start for me tomorrow ( as ever!)

 

Peaceful puffing

 

 

Mitchell

 

Allergic to smoke? Oh dear, what a shame, nevermind!

So, here’s a photo of my cats, I call the grey one Cohiba cat and he faithfully sits with me every night whilst I have my last cigar of the evening at home.

 

Sadly, he recently had some routine blood tests which showed him to be allergic to “tobacco” True story! So what do I do now? I interrogated him but he has not admitted smoking my cigars whilst I’m out of the house but I was wondering who was dipping into the humidor.

 

Cohiba Cat

 

BBQ cat anyone? meeeowwwww 😉

 

I’m off to La Casa del Habano in Hamburg tomorrow as I can’t bear waiting any longer to try the new limited editions. I hear the Montecristo sublimes are…. sublime. Hopefully we will have them in the UK next week together with the Cuaba Piramides and Partagas SD5

 

If you are one of the regular Hamburg smokers club members, I look forward to seeing you.

 

Have a great weekend

 

Best

 

Mitch

Christies cigar and wine auction

Christies held a wine auction at King street St James’s today and tacked around 90 Lots of cigars to the end of it

 

I was surprised at how few Lots of wine sold and when they did sell prices seemed to be at the lower end of estimates

 

The cigars pricing was all over the show,some prices were low,some lots did not sell and some prices were particularly high.

 

Dunhill Havana Club

 

The first Lot which was a beautiful box of 100 Romeos ( 4 different sizes) made for Saks Fifth Avenue failed to attract any bidders with an estimate of £8000-£10,000

 

The star Lots were 2 boxes of 1930’s Hoyos made for UK cigar merchant T.B. Carlin. 5 1/4″ length and 38 ring gauge. Boxes of 50 cigars that sold for a paltry £800….simply incredible.

 

Cohiba Siglo humidor sold for a very respectable £2200

 

1977 box of Monte 5’s sold for a staggering £450

 

Cohiba Panatelas cabinet of 50 from early 1980’s sold £1000

 

Recent production Cohiba Siglo 1’s were sold for £150 which was baffling as this is more or less regular retail price for our EMS Siglo 1’s !

 

Sealed box of Partagas petit coronas sold for £350

 

The room was fairly well attended and there were a few phone bidders….but the heady days of a few years ago are long gone sadly

 

Peaceful puffing

 

Mitchell