Auction results live!

Greetings from the lovely cigar terrace at Boisdale where we have just enjoyed copious quantities of Champagne and canapes before our summer vintage cigar auction 🙂

The results are being brought to you live as the auctioneers knocks down the Lots but please treat this list below as ‘preliminary’ and; ‘subject to confirmation’ as the auctioneer is very fast and we can’t always type as fast as he knocks down the Lots!

We will endeavour to reply to all your email queries as soon as practical but replies may be a tad slower than usual as my team are all at an after auction dinner this evening

Lot 1 – £155
Lot 2 – £190
Lot 3 – £650
Lot 4 – £700
Lot 5 – £580
Lot 6 – £1100
Lot 8 – £500
Lot 9 – Pass
Lot 10 – £280
Lot 11 – £280
Lot 12 – £400
Lot 13 – pass
Lot 14 – £170
Lot 15 – £360
Lot 16 – £1100
Lot 17 – £620
Lot 18 – £880
Lot 19 – £600
Lot 20 – £580
Lot 21 – £500
Lot 22 – £500
Lot 23 – Pass
Lot 24 – £250
Lot 25 – Pass
Lot 26 – £380
Lot 27 – £720
Lot 28 – £780
Lot 29 – £780
Lot 30 – £280
Lot 31 – £480
Lot 32 – £180
Lot 33 – £650
Lot 34 – £360
Lot 35 – £580
Lot 36 – £2200
Lot 37 – £300
Lot 38 – £300
Lot 39 – £1000
Lot 40 – £210
Lot 41 – £380
Lot 42 – £380
Lot 43 – £200
Lot 44 – £480
Lot 45 – £480
Lot 46 – £420
Lot 47 – £480
Lot 48 – pass
Lot 49 – £360
Lot 50 – £280
Lot 51 – £380
Lot 52 – £320
Lot 53 – £650
Lot 54 – £150
Lot 55 – £500
Lot 56 – £550
Lot 57 – £120
Lot 58 – £190
Lot 59 – £340
Lot 60 – £4200
Lot 61 – £520
Lot 62 – £240
Lot 63 – £420
Lot 64 – £2800
Lot 65 – £750
Lot 66 – £1800
Lot 67 – £480
Lot 68 – £400
Lot 69 – £230
Lot 70 – £2500
Lot 71 – £1200
Lot 72 – £370
Lot 73 – £980
Lot 74 – £220
Lot 75 – £6400
Lot 76 – £680
Lot 77 – £2000
Lot 78 – £600
Lot 79 – £750
Lot 80 – £860
Lot 81 – £1000
Lot 82 – £480
Lot 83 – £1700
Lot 84 – £1750
Lot 85 – £1550
Lot 86 – £1150
Lot 87 – £1200
Lot 88 – £1350
Lot 89 – £500
Lot 90 – £400
Lot 91 – £1550
Lot 92 – £920
Lot 93 – £480
Lot 94 – £520
Lot 95 – £680
Lot 96 – £620
Lot 97 – £1150
Lot 98 – £1150
Lot 99 – £3600
Lot 100 – £4000
Lot 101 – £975
Lot 102 – £2200
Lot 103 – £2100
Lot 104 – £2300
Lot 105 – £1650
Lot 106 – £4000
Lot 107 – £1200
Lot 108 – £1000
Lot 109 – £850
Lot 110 – £1500
Lot 111 – £1650
Lot 112 – £1800
Lot 113 – £880
Lot 114 – £780
Lot 115 – £750
Lot 116 – £1350
Lot 117 – £1350
Lot 118 – £1750
Lot 119 – £1750
Lot 120 – £260
Lot 121 – £160
Lot 122 – £150
Lot 123 – £520
Lot 124 – £320
Lot 125 – £620
Lot 126 – £750
Lot 127 – £550
Lot 128 – £550
Lot 129 – £160
Lot 130 – £1250
Lot 131 – £220
Lot 132 – £120
Lot 133 – £5200
Lot 134 – £3700
Lot 135 – £9500
Lot 136 – £2650
Lot 137 – £1400
Lot 138 – £1550
Lot 139 – £1200
Lot 140 – £1400
Lot 141 – £1400
Lot 142 – £1300
Lot 143 – £850
Lot 144 – £850
Lot 145 – £800
Lot 146 – £375
Lot 147 – £920
Lot 148 – £950
Lot 149 – £3600
Lot 150 – £5000
Lot 151 – £1300
Lot 152 – £1300
Lot 153 – £210
Lot 154 – £550
Lot 155 – £3300
Lot 156 – £220
Lot 157 – £260
Lot 158 – £380
Lot 159 – £580
Lot 160 – £600
Lot 161 – £680
Lot 162 – £180
Lot 163 – £180
Lot 164 – £180
Lot 165 – £210
Lot 166 – £210
Lot 167 – £210
Lot 168 – £700
Lot 169 – £980
Lot 170 – £380
Lot 171 – £300

Best wishes

Mitchell, Brian, Michelle, Laura, Marci & Eli – the C.Gars Ltd – Auction Team

Thanks to Tillmann U. Pretscher for the photographs – http://www.pretscher.com/

Going …going…gone

Last call for absentee bids for our Vintage Cigar Auction is this Sunday noon UK time and the auction is being held at Boisdale Belgravia on Monday evening. we expect it to be a very interesting evening!

UK REGIONAL EDITIONS

Two UK Regional Editions are due to arrive in the summer……we are not certain which summer though ;-0

La Flor de Cano – Short Robusto 50 x 4” (102mm) in boxes of 25. (we reckon this could be the most popular regional ever) You may want to get yourself on the priority preorder list as demand for these cigars will be enormous [email protected]

This is a smaller version of the Flor de Cano Short Churchill, a robusto, which took the market by storm in the late 1980s and today sells for very high prices at auction. The vitola de galera for this cigar is Petit Robusto.

Por Larrañaga – Regalias de Londres 50 x 5 ½” (141mm) in boxes of 25.

The translation of the name is “Gifts from London”. and comes from a UK importer’s price list dated July 1912. The vitola de galera for this cigar is ‘Gordito’

CASAS DEL HABANO EXCLUSIVES

Also expected in the summer are two new lines that will be sold only at Casas del Habano shops, which is good news for our Hamburg store www.thecigarsmoker.com

La Gloria Cubana – Inmensos 54 x 6 ½” (164mm) in boxes of 10.
Vitola de galera – Sublimes

Ramon Allones – Allones Superiores 46 x 5 5/8” (146mm) in boxes of 10.
Vitola de galera – Corona Gorda

Happy birthday to my Dad – Michael Orchant 🙂 I’m off to smoke a Don Candido and sip some Dom Perignon with him now. After all – if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be supplying you Havana cigars now 🙂

Have a great weekend.

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Cain launch at Dunhill

C.Gars Ltd have the exclusive on the Cain range of cigars. These very full flavoured Nicaraguan cigars are ‘the bomb’ triple fermented and lots of ligero leaf. We threw a launch herf at Dunhill of London in their fabulous Davies street store.

Thankfully the weather stayed dry and warm and 40 avid cigar smokers including a large contingent from UK Cigar Forums were treated to a fabulous evening

To keep everyone satisfied in between puffs we served:

Louis Roederer Champagne

– Canapés including-baked woodland mushroom tart *new season artichokes and asparagus*Suffolk pork and sage sausage rolls*tempura tiger prawns with hot and sour sauce*hot smoked sea trout with pickled cucumber*roast sirloin of beef with béarnaise sauce*pata negra jamon on tomato bread*bresaola with goat’s curd

– Coteaux d’Aix en Provence Rosé

– Dunhillion Whiskey

We were also delighted to welcome Graham Julius, owner of the brand of Saint Luis Rey in the UK. Graham gave a splendid talk on this brand of Havana cigars which have returned to form in terms of blend construction and appearance and are once again back on our recommended Havanas list

Tickets for the event sold out within a day or two of being offered. If you want to be updated on C.Gars Ltd events just drop us an email to get on our newsletter circulation.

Our thanks to Graham Julius,Scott Vines and of course John from Dunhill for their kind assistance in organizing the wonderful event.

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Cigars or Football?

Cigars or Football? Silly question for me as I have never really understood why a load of guys would want to run after a ball for 90 minutes ( especially in the rain and cold of the UK) and when they finally catch up with the ball- kick the hell out of it. But hey ho, if you enjoy football, I hope you’ll enjoy the world cup (England will beat the USA on Saturday of course – even a non believer like me knows that!)

So I’m hoping for some decent weather on Monday as I won’t be watching the football but we will be throwing one of our now rather famous cigar events. This time at Dunhill of London

We will be launching the Cain range of cigars. I am told that these very full flavoured Nicaraguan cigars are ‘the bomb’ triple fermented and lots of ligero leaf. Well I will actually give them a try on Monday as this is a UK exclusive launch by C.Gars Ltd

Just to keep everyone satisfied in between puffs we will be serving:

Louis Roederer Champagne

-Canapés including-baked woodland mushroom tart *new season artichokes and asparagus*Suffolk pork and sage sausage rolls*tempura tiger prawns with hot and sour sauce*hot smoked sea trout with pickled cucumber*roast sirloin of beef with béarnaise sauce*pata negra jamon on tomato bread*bresaola with goat’s curd

-Coteaux d’Aix en Provence Rosé

-Dunhillion Whiskey

Michelle will be in charge of the guest list – no chance of gate crashers!

We are also delighted to be welcoming Graham Julius, owner of the brand of Saint Luis Rey in the UK. Graham will be giving us some background information on this brand of Havana cigars which we are very much looking forward to.

Tickets for the event sold out within a day or two of being offered. If you want to be updated on C.Gars Ltd events just drop us an email to get on our newsletter circulation.

Expanding again 🙂 Yes yes its true – I just hate standing still so we have decided that we would relocate our original Norfolk IT and marketing offices to new premises – purpose built and 3 times the size ! Needless to say Laura – (who created C.Gars Ltd) and her team are delighted with the move which they hope to complete in the next 2-3 weeks. When the new office is operational, clients in Norfolk will be more than welcome to order online and collect from our Norfolk offices should they wish.

Our London shop in West Hampstead (Broadhurst Gardens) is also expanding as we now have the premises next door as well and the builders are starting on Tuesday. I had to laugh when I opened the post at the shop yesterday and received a bill from Thames Water for £487 – remarkable as there is no water in that particular shop! what idiots/too funny

And finally – our mail order division is expanding again but I am sworn to secrecy till the deal is signed

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Gotham City herfing!

Just back from a week in very sunny and hot New York – but this was no vacation as it was a serious herf and crawl of the best spots for a smoke in NYC 🙂

I think I found them all ! and met up with a lot of old friends and quite a few new friends along the way.

I must profess to not really understanding New York’s smoking ban. All I can say is that there are more places to smoke there than in London hence I love NY 🙂

It was a bit of a gangster gathering with my business partners arriving from all over the world including Ron Morrison from Robert Graham Ltd, Guy Hancock from Decent Cigar Emporium and Drew Panico from LCDH-Merida.

Our first stop in the morning was always De La Concha for our morning smokes. I tried a variety of Davidoff cigars,  all of which were well crafted and enjoyable. The staff at DLC were always very friendly and knowledgeable and this is a great place to herf whilst watching the world go by.  After DLC we would take a walk through Central Park and have another smoke there.

Club Macanudo  is a very classy cigar club- food drinks- cigars, atmosphere and ambience. Could I ask for more? I think not- highly recommended

Velvet Cigar Lounge was a cosy but interesting place to herf- friendly crowd of smokers, very pleasant service – we’ll definitely go back there again.

Carnegie Club Saturday evening with a Sinatra tribute show ( and 11 piece orchestra! ) that was brilliant

Nat Sherman’s  could well be one of the best cigar stores I have seen anywhere in the world – truly classy with an rich history. First rate cigar lounge and lovely hospitality. My thanks to Aaron Sigmond for that

Florio’s for lunch is always on my agenda and Larry the owner always takes great care of us. Table outside-lots of wine- food- more wine- more cigars-Sambuca-more cigars. Yes we can herf in Florio’s till we fall off our seats , in fact I think we did !

Dinner at Prime Grill was first rate and yes- you can smoke cigars in the outdoor dining area. Splendid! Over to Grand Havana Room for the evening. GHR has to be one of the best cigar clubs in the world if not ‘the best’

The main event of the week was the New York City Cruise Herf on the Jewel attended by almost 100 friends including famous sports and TV personalities, cigar industry friends, old pals from back in the ASC days and loads of our clients 🙂

Goodie bag issued on arrival 🙂 Open bar for all as well as a few bottles of great Scotch and plenty of great wine too ( thanks Yehuda and Josh!)

Kosher catering & Italian catering ensured everyone was well fed!  BIG thanks to Jack

Brian and Ron Shapiro and Oliva Cigars very kindly assisted with the event by providing Alberto the roller who made some splendid fresh Nicaraguan cigars as well as giving out some first rate Oliva Serie V which everyone was raving about.

SMOKE magazine’s editors enjoyed the evening and ensured everyone had the current edition.

The other cigar magazine was supposedly attending too but forgot :

1 /how to cancel
2/ how to use a phone
3/ how to use a computer
4/ their manners
5/ all of the above ( I think this most likely)

No worries – they have had their last invite from me lol

Four hours of herfing whilst the boat went to the Statue of Liberty and we had the best views of the New York skyline whilst Sinatra music played in the background – I didn’t hear too many complaints! In fact, I think that was a herf to remember I can’t believe the range of cigars that are in the New York cigar stores – it’s never ending so at least with us all not being able to enjoy a single Cuban cigar for the whole week we were still able to have a fabulous time.

Back to the office on Monday to catch up and it’s sure to be busy as the new Limited editions for 2010 have just arrived in our warehouse and will be in all of our cigar stores by Tuesday latest:

2010 Limited Edition Cigars Just Arrived!!!
Limited Edition cigars are made from specially selected tobacco leaves that all have been aged for a minimum of two years.

2010 marks the arrival of three new ‘Edition Limitada’. Montecristo Grand Edmundo, Partagas Serie D Especial and Trinidad Short Robusto.

2010 Habanos Limited Edition Sampler – 3 cigars £59.99

Montecristo Grand Edmundo Limited Edition 2010 – Box of 10 £199.00
Montecristo Grand Edmundo Limited Edition 2010 – 1s £20.99
Size 5 7/8″ length x 52 ring gauge
This is the first time that this vitola has been made available outside of the Cohiba brand and arrives in Montecristo ‘s 75th anniversary year.

Partagas Serie D Especial Limited Edition 2010 – Box of 10 £179.00
Partagas Serie D Especial Limited Edition 2010 – 1s £18.99
Size 5 ½” length x 50 ring gauge
The big brother of the ever popular Serie D No.4. The Especial continues the tradition of rich, earthy, flavour-packed aromas that cigar enthusiasts have come to expect from the brand. It also represents a return to the original format of the pre-war Partagas D No.3.

Trinidad Short Robusto T Limited Edition 2010 – Box of 12 £209.00
Trinidad Short Robusto T Limited Edition 2010 – 1s £17.99
Size 4″length x 50 ring gauge

This subtle, smooth and refined smoke represents a very welcome addition to one of the most exclusive brands in production today.

All also available via this link

New and special from C.Gars Ltd 

La Gloria Cubana Delicious
5″ length and 48 ring gauge 2009 Cuban regional edition of 2000 jars made.  Limited stocks available.
Presented in handsome white ceramic jars of 25 with humidification units in the lids.
Very clever and classy way to store cigars.
La Gloria Cubana Delicious – 1s singles at £22.99
La Gloria Cubana Delicious – Jar of 25 at £550.00
Medium strength, cool draw, and as the name suggests – DELICIOUS!
http://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/cuban-cigars-gloria-cubana-cigars-c-317_44_398.html

We have our Cuban roller making custom blends all week in London, email me if you would like some. As usual I think I will stick to a full flavoured robusto sized cigar. They certainly seem to be the most popular.

For your diaries : Monday the 14th is the Cain launch that we have organized at Dunhill in London. If you haven’t got a ticket, sorry but the event is already over sold. Monday 21st is our Vintage Cigar Auction at Boisdale. If you haven’t already registered to bid you need to do so click here Don’t worry there is no cost to register! Lots are on this link. Colour catalogue now available on request [email protected] or see the auction Lots online here

Have a great weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

The boys arrive in style in a stretch limo

Guy, Mitchell and Drew looking serious putting together 70 goodie bags!

Guy, Mitchell and Drew looking serious putting together 70 goodie bags!

Mitchell with his 2 'assistants' Karyn & Tasha' who were in charge of the

Mitchell with his 2 ‘assistants’ Karyn & Tasha’ who were in charge of the Guest List  🙂

Mitchell and Guy with Jay and David in the background

Mitchell and Guy with Jay and David in the background

Let's just have this and any no narrative one in a sort of boat herf

Robert Lockwood from Smokes Magazine

Robert Lockwood from Smokes Magazine

Ron Morrison - director and whisky connoisseur at Robert Graham Ltd
Ron Morrison – director and whisky connoisseur at Robert Graham Ltd

Mitchell doing his usual 1 minute speech!
Mitchell doing his usual 1 minute speech!

Mitchell Guy and Drew

Mitchell Guy and Drew

View from the open top tour bus

 View from the open top tour bus

Dinner at Abigail's - splendid!
Dinner at Abigail’s – splendid!

We decided to give Guy a lesson or two in kosher food  :-)

We decided to give Guy a lesson or two in kosher food  🙂

One big happy family
One big happy family

Guy and Mitch ready for our morning De La Concha herf

Guy and Mitch ready for our morning De La Concha herf

Mitch and George herfing at De la Concha

Mitch and George herfing at De la Concha

Herfing at Club Macanudo

Herfing at Club Macanudo

Herfing at Club Macanudo

Herfing at Club Macanudo

Herfing with Joe and Eric at Velvet Cigar Lounge

Herfing with Joe and Eric at Velvet Cigar Lounge

Velvet was getting rather smokey

Velvet was getting rather smokey 🙂

Herfing with Bill,Eric and Sig at the fabulous Nat Sherman store

Herfing with Bill, Eric and Sig at the fabulous Nat Sherman store

Nat Shermans

Nat Shermans

Nat Shermans

Nat Shermans

When is an LGC a Robaina?-as debated in Florio's in Little Italy

When is an LGC a Robaina?-as debated in Florio’s in Little Italy