DATE ARCHIVES : April 2026

Casa Carrillo Encore El Futuro, New Drew Estate Deadwood Cigars, Dominique London Eminente Rum

Hello everyone! What a fantastic week it has been in Norfolk! We have even had some beautiful sunshine!

On Monday, we had lots of orders to pick, I had a fantastic team helping me and we all noticed how well the Casa Carrillo by E.P. Carrillo Encore El Futuro has been selling since I reduced the price! If the sales keep going on like this we will run out incredibly fast and we will not be getting them again so get yours as soon as possible! After picking all of the orders, I completed a Cuban cigar order – I have said many times about the issues we are finding obtaining Cuban cigars but we will always try. Meanwhile, Lewis has written an article about the Cuban cigar shortage, which you can read here.

On Tuesday, I spent the morning writing two articles for the C.Gars cigar library. The first is called Mitchellero Cigars – Why So Many Formats Keep Appearing in Our Best Sellers – You can read it here. The second is Half Corona Cigars Explained – Why They’re One of the UK’s Best Sellers – You can read that here. Afterwards, I found some spare time so I organised our pipe stock room, I shuffled them all along ready to get new pipes! 

On Wednesday, we received a brilliant delivery! Drew Estate have expanded their Deadwood range in the UK! I love the Deadwood SJ Coronet and now it is available as a Corona! We also received a New Deadwood called the Deadwood Leather Rose Petite Corona. These fantastic additions join the already popular Deadwood Fat Bottom Betty, SJ Coronet and Crazy Alice. On top of the new Deadwood cigars we have also received the Drew Estate Blackened M81 Maduro and S84 Shade to Black in a Coronet size. This excites me too as the M81 Maduro was one of my favourite cigars of last year.

Thursday was stock count day. This time it was my turn to do it all with Josh. It had been a while since Josh completed a stock count but he did fantastic and we were done with plenty of time to spare. During the stock count, I noticed we had a couple of boxes of Rocky Patel which weren’t online as singles. So I made sure I put them online as I try my best to get all cigars available as boxes and singles.

On Friday, I helped pick orders and then made a start creating the shop newsletters. I liked how almost all of the stores chose the Dominique London Eminente Rum as their Spirit of choice. I think by now all of the staff members have given this a try and loved it. It is very limited so once it’s gone it is gone! In the afternoon, I helped Ben complete a cigarette stock count – together we flew through them all, it’s the first time we have teamed up like that and we did incredible. 

I hope you liked this weeks goings on.

So long for now.

Oliver

New My Father Cigars, Drew Estate on Sale and Alec Bradley Black Market Back in Stock

Hello everyone! I hope you had a fantastic long bank holiday weekend! Just because it’s a bank holiday doesn’t mean life at C.Gars stops. If anything it means we are even busier!

On the bank holiday Monday, it was Robyn, Sharon and myself. Together we picked all of the priority orders which were placed over the weekend. As my loyal readers will know, Mondays are our busiest day and so to just have three members of staff it was tough. Once we picked the priority orders – Sharon and Robyn packed them whilst I carried on picking the regular orders. At the end of the day all of the orders were picked and I was shattered to say the least, but I knew the rest of the team would appreciate it.

On Tuesday, I was being a jack of all trades. I started by checking over all of the orders which was picked by the team on Tuesday and then I started packing orders that was left over from Monday. At one point everyone was either packing or booking the parcels on. By the end of the day we had everything sent out! We were all tired and relieved. Meanwhile, I also had the privilege of putting more cigars on special offer! My favourite ones to lower the price on was the Drew Estate Undercrown 10 All Dekk’d Out Corona Viva – This has been reduced from £25.49 to £17.99! A brilliant saving of £7.50! Which for a Drew Estate is fantastic. Have a look at our sale page to see what else has been lowered.

On Wednesday, I focused on the C.Gars cigar library. I created two articles – The first one is called Why Boveda Humidifiers Are Essential for Cigar Storage – You can read it here. The second is called Short Smoke Cigars – The Best Small Formats UK Smokers Are Buying – You can read it here. I also gave some feedback on cigar sales to Chris, next up will be what we do with these cigars next – this means they will either get more marketing, a drop in price or potentially we may discontinue them. I also received delivery of the latest My Father cigars to enter the UK market – The La Opulencia and El Centurion H-2K-CT. The La Opulencia is available as a Robusto and a Toro and uses Criollo and Corojo binders, Corojo, Criollo and Habano filler and wrapped in a beautiful Mexico Rosado Oscuro wrapper. The El Centurion H-2K-CT is available as a Corona or a Toro and features a hybrid H-2K-CT wrapper from the United States, the binders and fillers are 100% Nicaraguan grown. Get yours now!

On Thursday, I would normally be doing a stock count of all of our cigars but this time I got the week off! Lisa has done it with Sarah, who is usually in the packing department and so I started the day with picking and then worked through our out of stock cigars to see if there was any I could put back online, I was pleased to see us receive a box of the Alec Bradley Black Market Punk as they disappeared for a little while but they are back with the Torpedo, which was nice to see. Afterwards, I started working on my June cigar subscriptions. I have never been able to get so far ahead before but it is vital as Cuban cigars seem to be getting harder to source. So I need to make sure I get my Cuban cigars on order. 

On Friday, I started my day with order picking. Both Josh and I noticed a lot more orders for larger cigars, with the sun coming out it is the obvious thing to do. One order I noticed had a lot of Lancero cigars – Lancero cigars are one of my favourites as you get a lot of flavour from the wrapper compared to the filler. Afterwards, I had the joys of lowering even more cigars! Make sure you have a look at our sales page to see what I have done.

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks blog.

So long for now.

Oliver.