Vive la France!

Took the squeezy jet to Paris for our annual Paris herf with the No More Scots Cigar Group last weekend 🙂

 

As always we met at the cigar friendly bar at the Hotel Du Louvre for champagne on Friday afternoon accompanied by regional French edition Bolivar Libertadors and Juan Lopez Obus…both first rate Havanas.

 

Dinner at cigar friendly Cafe Ruc  ( 159 Rue Saint Honoré Paris75001) accompanied with some splendid 1998 Pomerol and first ate Romeo short churchills.

 

Saturday evening we enjoyed dinner at Chateaubriand http://www.123cacher.com/en/kosher_restaurant/chateaubriand.html superb kosher restaurant where the owner very kindly allowed us to smoke our cigars:-)

 

After dinner we headed to the late show at the Crazy Horse http://www.lecrazyhorseparis.com/ ….has to be seen to be believed….fantastic show…but no smoking allowed )-:

 

Sunday we mooched round the antiques market smoking our P2’s and nobody batted an eyelid in fact we spotted quite a few cigars smokers.

 

Off to CDG airport for one final BBF in the outdoor smoking area…..vive la France !

 

……….and we won the rugby:-)…what a perfect weekend.

 

Thanks to my herf buddies Christoph, Zaff, Harvey, Craig, Gordon and Tillman for the excellent company and all the laughs:-)

 

Best

 

Mitch

Annual Paris Cigar Herf

This weekend is our annual Paris herf with a dozen or so of the No More Scots Cigar group making the annual pilgrimage to our favourite herfing City for the 9th year running.

 

I decided to zip over on Eurostar last weekend to have a herfette and make smoke dining arrangements. Good old Eurostar….2 hours 40 minutes First class on a carriage that looked like it needed an industrial clean,and this cost me £300 ! Needless to say I’ll be flying Easy Jet this weekend 🙂

 

First class wining and dining is of course planned over 3 days whilst enjoying a rather obscene amount of Havanas. We will no doubt be timing Gordon on how fast he smokes a Cohiba robusto!

 

Crazy Horse planned for Saturday night and the weather forecast is warm and sunny…could one ask for more? 🙂

 

Best

 

MItch

POSTAL STRIKE!!

It’s business as usual at C.Gars Ltd. Postal strike does not stop our mail order service. Instead of Royal Mail we offer our customers the option of next day courier delivery. Any order of the value of £100 or above will be dispatched FREE OF CHARGE by courier for a next working day delivery between the days of 8th and 11th October

Upmann 2’s…yumster!

…sadly another delay in the launch of the new regional edition Por Larranaga Magnificos.
 
Now pushed back to 1st November but I do promise they will be worth the wait.
 
Hoping to smoke a Magnificos with Simon Chase of Hunters and Frankau when he comes to my office in the next few days to have a look at some of my vintage Havanas as I hope to assist in a small way in the choice of the next regional edition for the UK market.
 
To dull my sadness over this latest delay I zipped over to my La Casa del Habano in Hamburg to smoke some fantastic 2007 H Upmann no.2’s ( red band now) and it was not a let down.Best blending in years for this cigar…smoked 3 back to back whilst herfing with my partner Christoph,smoking buddy Zaff,Trent and Brian from Canada and a few of our local regular lunchtime smokers.
 
Unlike the UK….Germany and Hamburg in particular is very cigar friendly 🙂
 
The cigars were complimented with some splendid Edmundo Dantes 15 year old Cuban rum ( only 3000 bottles made ….2 less available now!) highly recommended 🙂
 
Peaceful puffing 🙂
 
Best
 
Mitch

More Por :-)

Smoked (sampled of course)  a delicious Por Larranaga magnificos with Simon Chase ( marketing director Hunters and Frankau) at our London office this morning.

 

Light to medium sweet flavour and medium strength,a little young but well balanced and complex.Smooth vein free colorado maduro wrapper.First rate construction with a clear cool draw.Blend definitely reminds me of the Por Larranaga Magnum from the 1970’s

 

6 3/4″ length and 50 ring gauge of smoking perfection.

 

Only 1400 limited edition numbered boxes will be made for the UK market ( 1000 boxes of 10’s and 400 boxes of 25)

 

The cigars are double banded and the band is a replica of one used by Por Larranaga a hundred years ago.

 

Prices are now confirmed at £19 per cigar and the cigars are expected to be available for shipping by the end of October:-)

 

Michelle and Laura will be putting up a web page with more details and photographs in the next 24 hours…..be prepared to drool!

 

Happy new year and well over the fast to all of my cigar smoking friends

 

Have a great weekend.

 

Best

 

Mitchell