So I’m leafing through my Financial Times today sipping an espresso with my Partagas Shorts and read a most excellent letter written by Michael J. McFadden (Author of Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains…highly recommended)

Anyone else see the letter? talk about “hit the nail on the head”

Here are some good links from Michael as well

www.Antibrains.com
www.TheTruthIsALie.com
http://pasan.TheTruthIsALie.com

They make good reading and certainly give some food for thought.

He has a new book coming out soon that I’m looking forward to http://www.amazon.com/TobakkoNacht-The-Story/dp/B001O0ED0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229673890&sr=8-1

Have a great weekend and …peaceful puffing

Mitchell

I had the pleasure of welcoming my dear Friend Kiminori Yagi from Tokyo to our London office today

Mr and Mrs Yagi as well as my smoking buddy Zaff enjoyed Davidoff Mouton Rothschild cigars with some excellent pre embargo Cuban rum

Welcome to London Yagi-san 🙂

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

International Herf

Just arrived back from 2 weeks of herfing in sunny Miami Beach 🙂 Perfect sunny and hot 80F weather every day.

My New Years Eve smoked ended up to be a Dunhill Estupendos followed by a Davidoff 80th anniversario …it was a long night!

Met up with many old friends and new and with the weather this good was not short of places to smoke a fine cigar

My favourite hang out is still deco Drive cigars on Lincoln,the perfect place to watch the world go by and I certainly did….having spotted Louis Walsh, and Jackie Mason strolling past! I even spotted Trevor McDonald at the airport!

From the desk of Smokeymo - Miami Herfing

No real signs of recession on South Beach, in all honesty the malls such as Bal Harbour and Aventura seemed busier than ever and Lincoln road as well as Ocean were packed nightly. Plenty of cigars smokers around and no one seems to bat an eyelid… joys of living in a warm sunny climate perhaps.

We enjoyed a sublime dining experience with clients at Barton G where we smoked some fabulous custom blends in the garden dining area after the most incredible dinner, nothing like this presentation of food anywhere I can think of in the world.

So, now back to freezing but at least sunny and dry (today) London and of course a little taste testing. Simon from Hunters kindly gifted me a Ramon Allones Phoenicios which I tried this evening. First class smoke, a bit like an overblown Specially Selected. I think I may have been expecting a bit more “zing” in the blend but nevertheless I did enjoy it immensely.

Where oh where are the UK regionals? First person to email me with the correct date of release to the UK market gets 3 cigars free ! [email protected] Will let you know when they are out and who the winner is 🙂

Peaceful puffing in 2009 🙂

Mitchell

It’s been a great year at C.Gars Ltd 🙂 I’ve been as busy as ever travelling the world, holding cigar dinners, herfing with numerous friends on numerous occasions and taste testing the finest mature and vintage Havanas. I attended the February Festival del Habanos and November Partagas Festival in Havana.

I was particularly impressed with the limited edition Montecristo Sublimes and Partagas SD5 and particularly disappointed that the 2008 UK regional editions were not released although we are hopeful they will be available in January of 2009. Trust me… they are worth the wait.

The UK exclusive Ramon Allones Belicosos was my favourite cigar of the year (Hunters and Frankau now out of stock! eek…did I smoke that many?!) followed closed by Partagas P2 and Bolivar Belicosos.

The UK smoking ban is now well over a year old and whilst I am not sure (nor do I particularly care) how it has affected cigarette smokers, clearly it has had no affect on cigar smokers as we have just completed our best year ever. No doubt an Englishman’s home is still his castle!

Congratulations to my London sales team (Michelle, Elishka, Marci, Mirka and Lucy) for their incredible work and dedication over the Christmas season. Multi thousands of orders and not a single back order. Hopefully all our clients have their cigars in time for Christmas and of course there’s still time to order for your New year celebrations

Well done to Laura, my long suffering I.T. manager (long suffering as not a day goes by when I am not bombarding her with more ideas, corrections, additions, deletions, moans and groans!) for managing our growing cigar & whisky empire online. I don’t think we ever dreamed we would be this big!

Thanks to Christoph and his team at La Casa del Habano in Hamburg for making 2008 such a great year and well done to our teams at Turmeaus retail cigar and pipe shops in England and of course Ron, Fraser and the team at Robert Graham cigar shops and Global Whisky shops in Scotland

Last but not least my thanks to Hunters and Frankau, the UK Importer and distributor of Havana cigars who have been so supportive of C.Gars Ltd over the last year

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah 🙂

…peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Mitch herfing

Karyn was busy checking the merchandizing in both shops and gave the team a thumbs up so well done Turmeaus!
Had a bite to eat at the Living Room in Liverpool….recommended although sadly no smoking area. Not to worry…smoking is legal in hotel rooms so I finished the evening with a Davidoff Margaux from 1987…sublime Peaceful puffing

Mitchell