Auction results live!

Reporting to you live from Boisdale Canary Wharf with results of the auction as it happens.

Subject only to final confirmation when we are back in our offices tomorrow at which time confirmed sold prices will be updated on our main auction website http://www.cigarauctions.co.uk

Best of luck to all of our sellers and bidders,

Mitchell, Laura, Michelle, James and Eliska
C.Gars Ltd – Auction Team

Lot 1 – £900	Lot 2- £3200	Lot 3 – £1250
Lot 4 – £1250	Lot 5 – £1700	Lot 6 – £2000
Lot 7 – £1300	Lot 8 – £620	Lot 9 – £200
Lot 10 – £250	Lot 11 – £1700	Lot 12 – £ 1100
Lot 13 – £1500	Lot 14 – £1400	Lot 15 – £400
Lot 16 – £1050	Lot 17 – £220	Lot 18 – £1000
Lot 19 – £1500	Lot 20 – Pass	Lot 21 – £1300
Lot 22 – £950	Lot 23 – £500	Lot 24 – £500
Lot 25 – £700	Lot 26 – £700	Lot 27 – £130
Lot 28 – £120	Lot 29- £ 250	Lot 30 – £220
Lot 31 –	Lot 32 – Withdrawn	Lot 33 – £250
Lot 34 – £150	Lot 35 – £400	Lot 36 – £750
Lot 37 – £290	Lot 38 – £1580	Lot 39 – £550
Lot 40 – £900	Lot 41 – Withdrawn	Lot 42 – £100
Lot 43 – £180	Lot 44 – £180	Lot 45 – £520
Lot 46 – £520	Lot 47 – £600	Lot 48 – £400
Lot 49 – £280	Lot 50 – £150	Lot 51 –
Lot 52 – £400	Lot 53 – £300	Lot 54 – £300
Lot 55 – £300	Lot 56 – £200	Lot 57 – £350
Lot 58 – £2600	Lot 59 – £350	Lot 60 – £240
Lot 61 – £250	Lot 62 – £500	Lot 63 – £600
Lot 64 – £900	Lot 65 – £220	Lot 66 – £220
Lot 67 – £260	Lot 68 – £200	Lot 69 – £300
Lot 70 – £500	Lot 71 – £2000	Lot 72 – £500
Lot 73 – £230	Lot 74 – £1000	Lot 75 – Pass
Lot 76 – £350	Lot 77 – £220	Lot 78 – £380
Lot 79 – £700	Lot 80 – £350	Lot 81 – £650
Lot 82 – £250	Lot 83 – £250	Lot 84 – £350
Lot 85 – £200	Lot 86 – £300	Lot 87 – £100
Lot 88 – Pass	Lot 89 – £350	Lot 90 – £280
Lot 91 – £280	Lot 92 – Pass	Lot 93 – £600
Lot 94 – £550	Lot 95 – £550	Lot 96 – £300
Lot 97 – £180	Lot 98 – Pass	Lot 99 – Pass
Lot 100 – £240	Lot 101 – £200	Lot 102 – £350
Lot 103 – £420	Lot 104 – Pass	Lot 105 – £220
Lot 106 – £220	Lot 107 – £330	Lot 108 – £450
Lot 109 – £280	Lot 110 – Pass	Lot 111 – £330
Lot 112 – £220	Lot 113 – £200	Lot 114 – £300
Lot 115 – £600	Lot 116 – £700	Lot 117 – £550
Lot 118 – £150	Lot 119 – £200	Lot 120 – £400
Lot 121 – £580	Lot 122 – £300	Lot 123 – Pass
Lot 124 – Pass	Lot 125 – £320	Lot 126 – £150
Lot 127 – £500	Lot 128 – £100	Lot 129 – £80
Lot 130 – £190	Lot 131 – £350	Lot 132 – £100
Lot 133 – £250	Lot 134 – £300	Lot 135 – £520
Lot 136 – £750	Lot 137 – £680	Lot 138 – £400
Lot 139 – £500	Lot 140 – £600	Lot 141 – £250
Lot 142 – £280	Lot 143 – £800	Lot 144 – Pass
Lot 145 – £350	Lot 146 – £80	Lot 147 – £380
Lot 148 – £300	Lot 149 – £200	Lot 150 – £200
Lot 151 – £280	Lot 152 – £400	Lot 153 – £420
Lot 154 – £600	Lot 155 – £700	Lot 156 – £400
Lot 157 – £310	Lot 158 – £550	Lot 159 – £200
Lot 160 – £180	Lot 161 – £180	Lot 162 – £160
Lot 163 – £100	Lot 164 – £180	Lot 165 – £350
Lot 166 – £500	Lot 167 – £500	Lot 168 – £380
Lot 169 – £400	Lot 170 – £400	Lot 171 – £2000
Lot 172 – £580	Lot 173 – £550	Lot 174 – £80
Lot 175 – £1800	Lot 176 – £450	Lot 177 – £450
Lot 178 – £900	Lot 179 – £1300	Lot 180 – £750
Lot 181 – £650	Lot 182 – £2200	Lot 183 – £ 1900
Lot 184 – £ 1900	Lot 185 – Pass	Lot 186 – £950
Lot 187 – Pass	Lot 188 – £700	Lot 189 – £550
Lot 190 – Pass	Lot 191 – £750	Lot 192 – £1000
Lot 193 – £1000	Lot 194 – £650	Lot 195 – £720
Lot 196 – £720	Lot 197 – £720	Lot 198 – £750
Lot 199 – £850	Lot 200 – £800	Lot 201 – £750
Lot 202 – £800	Lot 203 – £250	Lot 204 – £520
Lot 205 – £750	Lot 206 – £320	Lot 207 – £1000
Lot 208 – £500	Lot 209 – £600	Lot 210 – £700
Lot 211 – £300	Lot 212 – £520	Lot 213 – £320
Lot 214 – £1850	Lot 215 – £320	Lot 216 – £320
Lot 217 – £380	Lot 218 – £520	Lot 219 – £880
Lot 220 – £1000	Lot 221 – £650	Lot 222 – £2200
Lot 223 – £950	Lot 224 – £450	Lot 225 – £2000
Lot 226 – £180	Lot 227 – £2600	Lot 228 – £800
Lot 229 – £3200	Lot 230 -1500	Lot 231 – £3200
Lot 232 – £6800	Lot 233 – £3500	Lot 234 – £850
Lot 235 – £4100	Lot 236 – £2400	Lot 237 – £1500
Lot 238 – £800	Lot 239 – £2150	Lot 240 – £450
Lot 241 – £1200	Lot 242 – £1750	Lot 243 – £1450
Lot 244 – £1200	Lot 245 – £1000	Lot 246 – £450
Lot 247 – £495	Lot 248 – £900	Lot 249 – £585
Lot 250 – £800	Lot 251 – £900	Lot 252 – £600
Lot 253 – £4200	Lot 254 – £2100	Lot 255 – £850
Lot 256 – £8000	Lot 257 – £7500	Lot 258 – £6500
Lot 259 – £5100	Lot 260 – £3800	Lot 261 – £3200
Lot 262 – Pass	Lot 263 – £2800	Lot 264 – £7000
Lot 265 – £4500	Lot 266 – £4500	Lot 267 – £13,000
Lot 268 – £3200	Lot 269 – £8000	Lot 270 – £6000
Lot 271 – £5500	Lot 272 – £2500	Lot 273 – £1800
Lot 274 – £5200	Lot 275 – £5000	Lot 276 – Withdrawn
Lot 277 – £3250	Lot 278 – £3000	Lot 279 – £700
Lot 280 – £1900	Lot 281 – £3600	Lot 282 – £750
Lot 283 – Pass	Lot 284 – Pass	Lot 285 – £280
Lot 286 – Pass	Lot 287 – £300	Lot 288 – Pass
Lot 289 – Pass	Lot 290 – £80	Lot 291 – £50
Lot 292 – Pass	Lot 293 – Pass	Lot 294 – Pass
Lot 295 – £350	Lot 296 – £350	Lot 297 – £580
Lot 298 – £480	Lot 299 – £85	Lot 300 – £60
Lot 301- £220	Lot 302 – £620	Lot 303 – £850
Lot 304 – £2100	Lot 305 – £700	Lot 306 – £880
Lot 307 – £850	Lot 308 – £2100	Lot 309 – £900
Lot 310 – £1050	Lot 311 – £800	Lot 312 – £620
Lot 313 – £750	Lot 314 – Pass	Lot 315 – £700
Lot 316 – £800	Lot 317 – £720	Lot 318 – £500
Lot 319 – £880	Lot 320 – £1150	Lot 321 – £1600
Lot 322 – £1600	Lot 323 – £1500	Lot 324 – £3000
Lot 325 – £6000	Lot 326 – £3600	Lot 327 – £3100
Lot 328 – £4200	Lot 329 – £9500	Lot 330 – £3600
Lot 331 – £200	Lot 332 – £3500	Lot 333 – £220
Lot 334 – £980	Lot 335 – £350	Lot 336 – £340
Lot 337 – £600	Lot 338 – £780	Lot 339 – £420

Going… Going…

auction catalogue Well, you guessed from the subject line its Auction time again! Next Tuesday the 19^th we will be holding our Winter Cigar Auction at the fabulous Boisdale Canary Wharf at 5 pm.

Not long to get your bids in (unless you are bidding at the auction of course) as online bidding closes at 5pm on the 18th November.

Open day this Sunday at our London offices from 12pm – 5 pm but please email to confirm that you wish to view, [email protected]. Boisdale has very kindly sent us a few cases of their delicious Champagne for clients to enjoy whilst they are viewing Lots 🙂

Viewing is always advised and for absentee bidders we are always happy to provide condition reports over email.

Ranald and I have planned an outrageous evening for The

Spectator Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards which follow on from the auction. Full details here but this

event is absolutely completely and utterly sold out now 🙂

We’ll be smoking some of the best Fuente cigars accompanied but some incredible libations whilst we bid on some great Lots at the Silent Auction over dinner!

I’m looking forward to welcoming friends and clients from all over the world over the next few days for some great smokes and super herfing! Pre herf will be at the lovely Bulgari Hotel – drop me an email if you would like to join us for a smoke/drink.

… also in the news this week:

Delighted to report that a new Turmeaus cigar shop is now in the planning and will open in Norfolk at the end of February 2014. We have always had offices in Norfolk but now have so many clients in this beautiful county that we thought it’s about time we opened a specialist store with walk in humidor and sampling lounge. Our new Norfolk premises will also have the largest pipe tobacco range in the UK and a huge range of humidors and all other cigar related accessories.

My Co-Director, Laura is overseeing this expansion which is very exciting for our Norfolk C.Gars Team.

It was a week of travelling for me (no change there then!) as I visited our Norfolk offices on Monday and had an exciting presentation on our new C.Gars website due to launch in the next few week . It’s a massive improvement on current version and I think our clients will love it. We’re working on lots of cool interactive features for 2014 to make each visit a fabulous customer friendly experience.

On Tuesday I headed up to Turmeaus Liverpool and Turmeaus Chester to see how our shops are ready for the Christmas season… And well yes, they are very ready! Huge ranges of cigars, pipes, lighters and accessories – everything for the smoker as well as traditional warm and friendly, helpful service.

Liverpool and Chester also sell Cuban rum and superb single malt whisky with the range being increased substantially over the next week or so. You won’t find these single malts in the supermarkets, they have been selected for quality and value by our head buyer, Linda from Robert Graham Ltd.

Chester is now open late night Thursdays till 8 pm and I understand that Liverpool will have a new Hilton Hotel opening next year, complete with a cigar terrace! Great news, as its just round the corner from our Fenwick street location 🙂

I was particularly impressed with the range in the Chester walk in humidor but then I should be as our assistant Manager, Calum is a ‘Master of Cigars’ and very knowledgeable indeed as well as lovingly caring for the condition and appearance of the premium cigars at Chester. We welcome cigar sampling at both Liverpool and Chester Turmeaus.

Managed to sneak in a herfette with Roy – my cigar smoking chum from Chester. Roy enjoyed an Upmann Robusto Limited edition whilst I herfed one of the new Romeo de Luxe Limited editions just released.

We also have the new Montecristo Petit no. 2 in stock now and rolling out to all of our shops, singles and boxes and I reckon they will prove to be very popular indeed.

Oodles of new products arriving and being added to our humongous range daily – easy to check out the latest products on this link.

Okay, so my next blog will have auction (preliminary subject to confirmation) results on it as usual as well as a few pics and then after the auction… I’m off again! this time to the Partagas Festival in Havana 🙂

Have a smokey weekend and best of luck to all of our auction bidders and sellers

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Gallery:

Cigars Awards Nominees Announced!

Greetings from rather sunny and lovely London 🙂

Just over a week to go before the best cigar evening of the year and I can’t wait!

Read full details on this link

Aged, Rare & Vintage Cigar Auction preview

CIGAR SMOKER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Alan Greenspan
Jeremy Irons
Johnny Vaughan
Jonathan Ross
Julian Dicks
Marc Sinden
Mark Price
Michael Grade
Michael Lington
Richard Young
Simon Le Bon
Sir David Tang
Stephen Evans
Sylvester Stallone

CIGAR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Regius Cigars
Fuente Cigars
Inka Secret Blend Cigars
Alec Bradley Cigars
Davidoff Cigars
Torano Cigars
Habanos Cigars

CIGAR WRITER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Nick Hammond
James Leavey
Will Lyons
Bill Knott
Nick Foulkes
Nic Wing
James Suckling

CIGAR RETAILER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Davidoff of St James’s
Robert Graham, West Hampstead
Tom Toms Belgravia
Segar and Snuff Parlous, Covent Garden
Alfred Dunhill
Alfie Turmeaus

CIGAR TERRACE OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

The Garden Room at The Lanesborough
Royal Horseguards hotel
The Kempinski Stafford
Madison Roof Top Grill and Bar
Corinthia
The Wellesley
Belgraves Hotel
Banyan on the Thames
The Hyatt Regency
Zafferano Ristorante
Hush
Ten Manchester Street
Eight Club

It’s a bit like the election of the new Pope! The cigar smoke will be coming out of the chimney to signify that Ranald, I and Andrew Neil have finally voted and decided who the winners of the Spectator Cigar Awards will be!

This will truly be a spectacular and sold out event starting with the live auction and also featuring a silent auction during the awards dinner. If you are attending I’ll be looking forward to seeing you and enjoying some of the finest Fuente cigars with you and if you’re not… You’ll be able to read all about it on my blog and website.

In other news this week, I attended a rather crammed cigar and whisky tasting at Robert Graham – Cambridge

Best Cigar Brand Dominican Republic – Dunhill Aged Romanas
Best Cigar Brand Honduras – Alec Bradley Tempus Terra Novo Natural
Best Cigar Nicaragua – Oliva Serie V Torpedo

Paired with the delicious, award winning whiskies from Robert Graham Ltd.

The Whiskies:

Glen Grant – Dancing Stag – 21 year old
Clynelish – Dancing Stag -1995

Fair to say a great evening was had by all and great to see that the average age of the 40 or so attendees was around 23 by my estimation. My thanks to Scott from Tor for his support and 5 hour drive to the event and of course Cailin and his Team (James, Fergus and Mimi) from Robert Graham Cambridge.

The new H. Upmann Connoisseur A has arrived in very small quantity a big smoke for the experienced smoker. Well-crafted and well blended.

I mentioned the lovely Partagas Serie D No. 4 book on last week’s blog which have all but sold out now (thank you customers!) and am happy to introduce our next edition which is the incredible Partagas Serie D No. 3 Limited edition from 2006. 14 of these delicious cigars in a Partagas imaged book style cabinet made in Cuba of course. Reserve them while you can, half have already sold out.

Tomorrow evening we have our long planned WAGs (wives and girlfriends) herf… My regular smoking buddies are treating the girls to a night out as a thanks for putting up with all of our boys herfs and smoking!

Next week’s travels take me to our C.Gars Norfolk offices to see the latest developments from our 24/7 IT and marketing Team and the rest of the week I’ll be in the office showing prospective auction bidders the auction Lots. If you can’t make a viewing don’t forget we are always delighted to provide condition reports by email, simply drop us line with the Lot numbers [email protected]

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

C.Gars Auction Cigar Cartoon

Trick or Treat?!

Treat of course 🙂 as I herfed my way across the Robert Graham shops in Scotland this week and managed to sample my way through a few of our top secret new releases planned for the next few months. Also contrasted them with some of the current releases such as Clynelish 1995 and Linkwood 1997 from our award winning Dancing Stag range.

‘Joys of being a whisky merchant’ or should I say ‘ joys of having a superb partner who is a whisky expert!’ (I only know how to drink the water of life!)

Our Rose street shop is going through a bit of a face lift with some great new LED lighting in the cabinets and our new corporate Robert Graham branding on the fascia as well as a nice refreshing paint jobbie in the next week or so. Our lovely and knowledgeable Manageress, Jo, seems to have filled Rose street up to the ceiling with the finest single malt whisky, Cuban rum, Cuban coffee and an gigantic range of Cuban and other premium cigars… So I think she’s all set for Christmas 🙂

Dougie and Danilo at our Canongate branch (The Treasurer) have reorganized the stocks in the walk in humidor and they look absolutely great, splendid range and great condition and you can always find some well matured Havanas and early regional editions.

Over at our new store in Glasgow, Linda is busier than ever and just hosted our first whisky tasting evening with Jamie from Carn Mor. I understand it was a very successful evening and the first of many. We have a gorgeous tasting room in Glasgow and I’m so happy to see it put to good use.

The Glasgow store is a bit of a work in progress as we continuously increase the already substantial range of whisky, cigars and hand made chocolate (all the good stuff!)

We are now planning on opening our humidor showroom next to the wine room which will feature more humidors than any other store in the UK. Just about something for everyone and every budget from £40 – £4000. Of course most of the humidors we exclusively import to bring our customers the best value for money in the UK as well as ranges that can not be found anywhere else.

I do love it up in Scotland (as long as its not too cold!) in fact I think I’ll spend a week or so at Robert Graham Scotland before Christmas… In the cigar department of course as I’ll leave Ronnie and his Team to advise on the whisky 🙂

The best news of all for me was that our ward winning Dancing Stag range of single malt whisky is now officially our best selling range of whisky across all of our retail Group and our Inka – Secret Blend brand of cigars from Peru is our best selling non Cuban cigars… By a long stretch. Quality, mature tobacco, perfectly constructed and very competitively priced… Who could ask for more?

Its definitely the season for tastings with Turmeaus Liverpool and Turmeaus Chester both holding new world cigar tasting evenings last week featuring Dunhill Aged and Alec Bradley Tempus cigars.

Next Wednesday I’ll be at Robert Graham Cambridge for a cigar and whisky appreciation evening. Last few tickets available for what will be as usual a sold out event.

The new LFDC Gran cano UK regional edition has proved to be a ridiculous success and we are already more or less out of stock and desperately waiting for more stock to arrive from Havana. We have released some of the earlier UK regional editions due to popular deland

Punch Serie D’Oro no.1
La Gloria Cubana Gloriosos
La Flor de Cano Short Robustos

New items ideal for Christmas gifts being added all the time to the online store by Michelle, Laura and Michael. In fact our range has grown so huge we can hardly move in either of our London or Norfolk warehouses!

If you are a fan of Partagas cigars you should check out this Partagas SD No. 4 book of cigars, superb cigars that I selected from our finest English Market Selection stocks in a beautiful presentation.

Just over two weeks to go before our Vintage Cigar Auction and The Spectator Cigar Smoker of The Year Awards dinner at Boisdale Canary Wharf. Online bidding is now open and closes 24 hours before the auction.

Chatting with Ranald earlier and he mentioned that Charlie Sheen and Sylvester Stallone has been nominated for the award amongst some other great personalities from sport (Julian Dicks) and movies (Alan Greenspan and Marc Sinden) to name a few. Should be an outrageous evening. I hear the Cuban Ambassador will also be at the dinner. Probably last chance to book for the event if not already sold out.

If you can’t make the dinner you can always join us for some fabulous Fuente cigars and the auction.

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Halloween Auction Cigar Cartoon

UK LFDC – Cuba ERDM!

Good grief talk about an exciting week! Started off with a trip to Basel for a Davidoff Europe Retailer Panel meeting last week which was, as always, not only interesting but informative and a lot of fun. I love these meetings as we have the opportunity to meet and discuss the cigar industry with our contemporaries who are some of the finest cigar retailers in Europe as well as learn of all the planned developments from one of the best cigar companies in the world.

Dinner was at the Walliser Kanne restaurant followed by smokes and drinks at Les Trois Rois where I herfed my way through a Puro de Oro Gordito followed by a Davidoff Nicaraguan Toro. Needless to say the Davidoff Nicaraguan line is proving to be a huge success and very popular with our clients visiting Turmeaus cigar shop in Shepherd Market, Mayfair.

It’s not one for the novice smoker as its quite a bold full flavour blend but experienced cigar smokers will undoubtedly enjoy this finely crafted cigar as a change of pace from a Cuban or perhaps other brands of Nicaraguan cigars. I truly believe these are in a class of their own and if you have not tried them yet… You should! Check out the full range here.

Now whilst I was busy in Basel, my lovely assistant Michelle and her Team were herfing the new La Flor de Cano Gran Cano – UK regional edition at the Hunters launch party, from all accounts they had a great evening and enjoyed the cigars immensely. Michelle was seen herfing with famous footballer and cigar smoker Julian Dicks who has been nominated for an award at the Cigar Smoker of the Year at 19^th November event.

The new Gran Cano cigars are in stock now and literally flying out the door of our mail order offices and of course available at all of our cigar shops across the country.

Clearly I hadn’t done enough travelling so the morning after arriving back from Switzerland I zipped off to Havana for a long weekend ☺ this was my first trip to Havana in many years when it wasn’t an actual Festival week but I reckon this was something like my 68th trip to Havana since 1997! Typical rainy/humid/sunny weather for this time of year.

My trip included herfing at some of my favourite cigar shops in the world including the Robaina shop at the Melia Habana Hotel, very comfortable lounge, great bar and super friendly staff. The Partagas LCDH where manageress Grecia and her staff were delightful and looking forward to the Partagas Festival in November which promises to be a spectacular event as usual. I understand the gala dinner will be a Tropicana which will be amazing.

The Cuban regional edition this year is the El Rey del Mundo Infantes in boxes of 10. This robusto sized cigar is deeee-licious! same strength profile as a Choix Supreme but a a sweeter tasting flavour. I tested loads of them over the weekend and they were consistent in construction and blend integrity. If you would like some, drop me an email [email protected]

Back in 2008 we had the pleasure of Eduardo Diaz Gonzales rolling cigars for us in our London office. Eduardo works at the El Laguito factory and was kind enough to give me a factory tour on my visit which I enjoyed immensely. There have been loads of rumours about lack of leaf, lack of cigars, lack of quality control so I wanted to see for myself what the real scoop was… And I did. Well I am pleased to say that it’s all just rumour as all the cigar shops I went to had full humidors and El Laguito as you can see from the photos was in full swing of production.

From what I could see it looks like the vast majority of the production was the Behike range, huge quantity of cigars were being quality checked and draw tested and the quality of the leaf looked excellent to me. Eduardo confirmed that current tobacco quality is first rate and there were no issues he was aware of. All good news 🙂 there were literally mountains of completed boxes of BHK’s and that’s a great thing as our sales of BHK’s are higher than ever.

Less than 4 weeks till our Winter Cigar Auction and The Spectator Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards dinner at the fabulous Boisdale in Canary Wharf. Catalogues have now been posted out and are also available online.

The event is getting loads of publicity and should be an incredible evening, purchase your ticket here.

Next week I’ll be visiting Robert Graham shops in Edinburgh and Glasgow and testing out some of the latest planned Dancing Stag releases.

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell