Happy new year Folks 🙂 and what a pleasure it is to be back to normal after all the Christmas and New Year’s herfing 🙂

My herfing continues this weekend with a little quality control on Cohiba BHK 52’s 😉 recently tipped in one of the cigar mags and with sales going through the roof on these I just have to check that they are as good (or better) than when first released.

Had a great dinner with my cigar twin (non identical but same birthday!) Ranald Macdonald at Boisdale Belgravia last week. Splendid evening chatting about the planned opening of Boisdale in Canary Wharf which will feature one of the finest cigar stores and Terraces in London. We are looking forward to the opening and already planning our next Vintage Cigar Auction.

If you have puffed through your cigars and need to top up the humidor, feast your eyes on some of our soon to be released specials. Hopefully we’ll have the photos up on the website in the next few days (if we haven’t pre sold them all!)

El Rey Del Mundo Tainos 2001- Orchant Seleccion
Next week I am releasing a limited edition of 64 boxes of English Market Selection, 2001 vintage Tainos, personally selected at Hunters and Frankau and specially double banded Orchant Seleccion. I shall open 2 or three boxes for visitors to my London office so singles will be available as well as full boxes for a limited period of time.

To reserve some of these fine Havanas, simply drop me an email

Bolivar Royal Coronas – Royal Wedding cigars – Orchant Seleccion
Congratulations to William and Kate ! we are so proud of our Royal family and terribly excited for the Royal wedding that next week we are releasing 100 boxes of 10 Bolivar tubed Royal Coronas – Orchant Seleccion. Specially double banded and with Royal Wedding insert.

To reserve some of these fine Royal Wedding Havanas, simply drop me an email or pre order using this dummy secure order link http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/mitchells-special-p-4716.html

Che – 2010 by Orchant Seleccion – Now available
Numbered collector’s edition (only 39 will be made for the 2010 edition)
Hand crafted presentation humidor created by Arlin Liss containing 2 cigars of each vitola – email for details and to reserve your preferred number [email protected] (sorry not available in the UK)

Have a great weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Last blog of 2010! and what a fast and fabulous year it has been – I decided to throw an early new years ever herf last night at White House restaurant to celebrate my nephew Gabriel’s wedding to Verity.Dinner,Single Malt Whisky from Robert Graham Ltd and Cohiba Robustos were enjoyed by 30 friends and family – great way to finish the year 🙂

…and now its Cohiba Behike 56 till 2011…and beyond with a bottle or three of Pol Roger Champagne 🙂

Wishing all C.Gars Ltd Friends, Clients and Staff a happy, healthy and prosperous new year

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Another record breaking week with 99.9999999999999999% on time deliveries. Well done to C.Gars Ltd sales Teams in London and Norfolk, highest volume sales we have ever known, so quite an experience even for a cigar merchant that is used to massive year round sales. It’s been an amazing challenge and terribly exciting at the same time.

Our London manager Marcela who has managed the warehouse for the last 5 years has left the company ( for now at least!) and is heading back to Slovakia and we wish her the best of luck for the future. Marci did an amazing job organizing the warehouse and assisting our clients. We’re delighted that Eli is taking over from here assisted by Mirka, Blanka and Dasha.

We have very exciting plans for 2011 as we intend to build a brand new walk in humidor at our London premises which will be the largest walk in humidor in the UK with the largest range of new, aged and rare Havana cigars in the UK

I’ve managed to get through the week by herfing through a box of Punch Serie D’Oro no.1 – this extraordinary UK exclusive regional edition is now more or less sold out and to be honest, it’s such a great cigar, I’m surprised it’s lasted this long. I’m going to have to break into one of the Serie D’Oro humidors when the boxes run out 🙂

Well I’m outta the London office in a few hours’ time and heading to Liverpool for Christmas- looking forward to checking out the building work on our new Liverpool cigar store and having a smoke or two in the soon to be redeveloped existing Turmeaus cigar store ( we are developing that store into a traditional confectionery store…yummmmmmm!)

I’m taking my trusty herf’dor filled with UK regionals for Christmas weekend and topping it off with some Davidoff Chateau Latour for my Father and I to enjoy over the weekend 🙂

So, thanks to our fabulous suppliers and our brilliant sales Team and most of all our valued clients. Wish you all a safe and merry Christmas

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Finally some photos of our Christmas staff herf with our good friend and top basketball player Mark Blount 🙂

This week has to be the busiest week I have known in my career in the cigar business with sales at 4 times our normal (and very busy) level. Seems to be a lot of new Havana cigar smokers out there and a lot of gigs being bought for existing smokers too.

Tuesday was a crazy day as we peaked at 4000 emails ! (up from a ‘normal’ 1800 a day)

My Hunters and Frankau rep and good friend of many years popped into the office for a smoke and a chat yesterday and we both said how we can’t believe how much the business has grown since we set up online – quite astronomical. We smoked some Romeo Wide Churchills which are fast becomning a new favourite

We also had the London sales Team Christmas night out on Wednesday and were joined by famous basketball star Mark Blount. The pre herf was at the office of course where we sampled a few BHK 54’s with some 20 year old Santiago rum – perfect match 🙂 I gather the Norfolk sales Team are still partying as they are bombing thru a record seasons sales in their new premises.

High point of the week is record sales of Punch Serie D’oro no.1 limited edition humidors. Exclusive to the UK. I think we have sold 20 out of the 100 made already 🙂

Always happy to assist and advise 24/7- every day of the year, just drop us an email [email protected]
Have a smokey (and hopefully not too snowy!) weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Very excited to have received our allocation of Punch Serie D’Oro no.1 limited edition humidors from Hunters and Frankau this week – this 2010 exclusive remake of the 2008 UK regional edition is superb 🙂 we have already sold 10 before they arrived! And buyers won’t be disappointed. Low price, great cigars and likely to be a great investment too.

Herfed at the Lanesborough cigar terrace with my friend Alan this week which despite the freezing temperature was as warm as ever. Great company, food, champagne and cigars – the perfect herf ! we blasted our way through Diplomaticos and Monte 2’s – great evening smokes. Change of venue for our next monthly herf, at Ten Manchester street cigar terrace – review to follow.

My shops in Scotland have been snowed in beyond belief (you may have seen the weather reports!) but our customers have been ordering more and more over our websites for rapid whisky and cigar deliveries 🙂 Mean whilst our London Robert Graham shop in West Hampstead is busier than busy especially as its open till 7pm (and 8pm on Thursday and Friday) easy parking right outside the door and the humidor has now been remodelled and has almost twice the range to previously. Cigar sampling on the premises encouraged of course.

Late finish at the office last night herfing with our friend Captain jack from the US who enjoyed a Robaina Unicos and Monte petit Edmundo paired up with some Robert Graham ‘Hoebeg’ Islay scotch 🙂

Thanks to all for emailing in your auction photos- a few more appear below. We managed to complete our auction reporting to all buyers and sellers in fairly record time due to very late nights in the office (2 a.m. was the norm!) and thanks to a lot of Cuban Coffee

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell