At long last I can finally announce the opening of our newest specialist Havana cigar shop in the heart of Mayfair.

Located in Shepherd Market and open 7 days a week including late night  openings Thursday through Saturday

The shop features a walk in humidor with an enormous range of the finest English Market Selection Havana cigars available in singles, small packs, boxes and cabinets. We also stock gift presentation boxes, jars and limited edition humidors.

Clients will find a comprehensive range of pipes, pipe and rolling tobaccos, cigar cutters, humidors, lighters, ashtrays, Cuban coffee and all smokers accessories and of course offer private locker facilities and a sampling room

The light and bright shop design makes leisurely browsing a pleasure and Shepherd Market has plenty of superb restaurants with al fresco dining where you can enjoy a good cigar after a meal

On our walls we are exhibiting some of our world famous collection of original photographs from Cuba

Our staff have been trained both at Hunters and Frankau’s cigar school as well as C.Gars Ltd on-going training program and are always delighted to advise. We guarantee you the best old fashioned service second to none

I will be happy to meet clients and discuss their specific requirements in my sampling room which has a nice range of Robert Graham single malt whisky

Turmeaus Tobacconist is the second oldest Havana cigar merchant in the UK having been started in business in 1817 in Liverpool by the Turmeaus family from France (you can see an original shop photograph in our shop window from 1917!)

In its heyday Turmeaus was not only a Havana cigar retailer but also an Havana cigar importer and had some 7 specialist shops in Merseyside.

In 2003 there was only one rather run down Turmeaus shop left in Water street Liverpool which C.Gars Ltd purchased with a mission to revive and ensure the survival of the Turmeaus name in the cigar industry. After a radical tidy up and reimage of the store and the appointing of our friend Christine Nestor as Manageress the business has never looked back. Christine’s husband Alfred, an author and avid pipe smoker has been influential on the growth of our pipe and pipe tobacco side of our business and we have names our Mayfair shop in his honour.

Another Turmeaus tobacconist shop was opened in Chester in 2005  having taken over an existing specialist shop from my friend Peter Lloyd who had owned the shop for many years.

Over the last 12 months we have opened a Turmeaus retro confectionery shop in Fenwick street, Liverpool, developed a brand new Turmeaus Tobacconist shop in Fenwick street Liverpool, refurbished our Turmeaus shop in Chester and now opened our Mayfair Alfie Turmeaus shop. We plan to open more Turmeaus tobacconist shops over the coming years offering the finest cigars and the best service in the business

You can see all of our locations including our splendid Robert Graham Ltd whisky and cigar shops on our contacts page and my team look forward to giving you a warm welcome

I reckon C.Gars Ltd Group is the largest Havana cigar Specialist in the UK and also has an incredible La Casa del Habano in Hamburg managed by famous cigar specialist Christoph Wolters. Our associates in Dublin are the Decent Cigar Emporium will offer you the same care and attention that you expect from C.Gars Ltd too.

My Team and I would like to think that we are the best in the trade and of course we are founder members of the Association of Independent Cigar Merchants (your guarantee of quality, service and value) we are all trained by Hunters and Frankau and we are passionate about our English Market Selection Havanas

If you don’t have one of our shops near you we are happy to offer our rapid mail order service through C.Gars Ltd- online 24/7 – every day of the year through our purpose built warehouses and offices in London and Norfolk

We are still shipping literally 1000’s of orders to arrive before Christmas but we recommend you get your orders in before the 22^nd

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

What a lovely surprise to see an article by cigar journalist Nick Hammonds in today’s Financial Times How to Spend it magazine and what a splendid photo of an Orchant Selection Bolivar Royal Corona. It looks positively mouth-watering and I have been smoking Bolivars all day as a consequence !

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FT-part1      FT-part2 

It’s been a madly busy week trying to deal with all the admin and accounts from the Winter cigar auction but its nice to have all the cigars collected by the buyers so I can actually see my walk in humidor again ( which was getting a bit overfull !) and of course it’s always fun paying out all the sellers who are no doubt very happy to have their payments before Christmas ( and probably buy different cigars with the proceeds!)

Still managed to have an office herf with Ignacio- Cuban Director of Hunters and Frankau and Arturo from La Casa del Habano division of Habanos SA  ( see photo) always good to catch up with all the industry news.

We have a beautiful LCDH in Hamburg and have just celebrated our 5^th anniversary.  Our shop has a beautiful cigar lounge, massive walk in humidor stocked up to the ceiling of course with the finest Havanas and we have this week completed our Casa del Ron – rum tasting lounge just behind the humidor. I should be over there in the next week or two to do a little ‘sampling’ 🙂 maybe I’ll open another La Casa del Habano in the UK next year 😉

Also managed to have dinner with Ranald at Boisdale Belgravia earlier in the week  and quite a few smokes after dinner on the Terrace. As ever the terrace was packed with a big crown of cigars smokers. Ranald and I both enjoyed smoking my Orchant Seleccion Juan Lopez.  These smokes from 2008 are quite delicious with dark colorado maduro wrapper. Last few singles available now. These have sold much faster than anticipated although our retail shops may well have a few singles in the humidors if you are a Turmeaus or Robert Graham customer.

My London and Norfolk sales Teams have never been so busy with the Christmas rush now in full swing. I have lost count of how many of our Christmas crackers we have sold  but we are talking loads and loads! It’s the perfect stocking filler

No sign of Montecristo Gran Reserva yet although hopeful we will have them in tiny quantity next week but they’re expensive so you may have to resort to cash advance apps to get some – interesting to see how these have developed since they were introduced to the trade back at the February Festival

Well I’d like to say that I’m kicking back on the weekend but with the current crazy volume of orders I’ll be in the office Saturday evening and all day Sunday to ensure on time deliveries for all our clients 🙂 if you need any advice our helpful sales Team are here 24/7 to assist so don’t hesitate to drop us an email [email protected]

Have a smokey weekend.

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

I’m finally getting back to ‘normal’ after a crazy week of Winter auction herfing that started with a fabulous pre auction herf at our offices last Sunday ( lost count of all the Champagne we went through but probably set a new office herf record) moved on to wonderful Ten Manchester street and finished with our mega 400 Lot auction at Boisdale Canary Wharf which had around a 92% sale rate.

The event was a cigars smokers herfing heaven with drinks, canapés and smokes on the cigar terrace before and after the auction and we were lucky enough to have dry and mild weather for the evening. This was a massive contrast to our last Winter auction at Boisdale Belgravia where we nearly froze to death !!! The auction room was packed to capacity with almost 100 bidders from all over the globe.

Greetings from Boisdale Belgravia where we are holding our 5^th cigar auction

Provisional results are set out below and subject of course to verification after the auction

Good luck to all of our bidders (and our sellers!)

Mitchell, Brian and Michelle

 

Cigar Auction time is upon us once again with our Winter auction this Monday  at the fabulous Boisdale in Canary Wharf 

Absentee bidder closing date/time: Midnight Saturday 26th (UK time)

Auction website : www.cigarauctions.co.uk

PDF Catalogue : http://www.cigarauctions.co.uk/Auction-Catalogue-Nov-2011.html

Pre-auction event Ten Manchester street cigar terrace 27th November: Sold out. Canapés ,champagne and Orchant Seleccion Havana cigars 🙂 

Auction event at Boisdale Canary Wharf 28th November: Sold out

 6pm – 7pm pre auction hospitality

7pm auction

Post auction hospitality

If you are on the guest list we will be spoiling you with great cocktails, Wine and  Havana cigars (English Market Selection-Orchant Seleccion) before and after the auction and the menu includes:

Roast haggis, bashed neeps & gravy

Spiced Scotch quails eggs, piccalilli

Mini Boisdale classic hamburger

Welsh rarebit (v)

Deep fried Spinach & Swiss cheese pancake (v) Cold canapés after the auction Dunkeld classic smoked salmon, sour cream & blinis Hebridean crab & avocado flat bread wraps Charcoal grilled chicken Caesar ‘en croute’

Dark Valhrona chocolate brownie

Blueberry Pavlova

We are delighted to invite you to our open day for viewing Lots ( by appointment)  on Sunday 27th November at our London offices from 1pm, where you can sample the latest limited edition cigars, enjoy some fine Champagne and examine auction Lots at your leisure:

( easy parking )

Prospective bidders are reminded that they should inspect cigars or request condition reports before bidding

Laura will as usual do a preliminary update on my blog of winning bids live as the auction happens

Best of luck to all of our bidders and sellers

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell