By laura
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
By smokeymo
I have actually lost count of how many Partagas Festivals I have attended in Havana but I reckon this may well be my thirteenth. It’s rather confusing as I can’t seem to get a definitive answer whether this Festival was the 14th,16th or 21st depending on how you count them (!)
So after relaxing with a facial and massage at the Virgin Upper class lounge in Gatwick to prepare me for 10 ½ hours of no smoking I settled into my flat bed for my 57th trip to Havana !
The usual Partagas Short at Jose Marti ( smoking ban of course not particularly policed) and we headed straight over to the Melia Habana for a bit of a herf to get us in the Havana Festival mood :) bought a box of Partagas E2’s ( which hardly lasted for the 4 days) and sipped a few HC7’s
My smoking chums and I spent a long day enjoying fabulous sunny and hot weather visiting the Indian Caves, Robaina’s Finca ( where the seedlings had just been planted) Pinar del Rio and beautiful Vinales which always looks like a postcard to me.
Herfed our way through a baggie of assorted smokes including E2’s,D5’s as well as Punch Serie D’Oro no.1 that my friend Zaffie had brought from London ( talk about bringing coals to Newcastle!) dinner at Prado Neptuno and smokes on the Terrace of the Nacional whilst listening to some good if not incredibly loud music ( maybe I am getting old but my friend Valerio assured me there are only too volumes in Cuba ‘ too loud’ and extremely loud’ !)
Someone emailed me to say that one side of the Nacional Terrace was now ‘no smoking’ but I couldn’t see anyone without a cigar in their hand !
Herfed at Partagas VIP and caught up with a friends from all over the world as ever and bought some cracking Partagas books with robustos and piramides- v. cool. Smoked a few at Palacio too before doing a bit of a walking tour round old Havana including the rum factory, La Bodegita del Medio,Floridita,Villa Nueva, Camra Oscura and a great ice cream shop where I introduced my friends to the pleasures of smoking a good Havana whilst eating vanilla ice cream !
This was possibly the best Partagas Festival I have ever attended as the venue for the gala dinner was at the incredible ‘Tropicana’ which beats any and every show I have seen in the world ( and I have seen quite a few!) Great bunch of friend at our table including Amir and Tim from Canada who I meet up with at every Festival, Rob Fox from JJ, Zaffie and Arturo and cigar journalist Nick Hammond. We were treated to cigar after cigar throughout the evening together with copious amounts of wine and rum-finishing off with a bottle of HC7, very nice!
I bumped in to Colin Ganley from European Cigar Journal who gave me a new cigar book called ‘Le Snob’ which was a nice surprise as there’s a short chapter that I wrote for it with a nice photo of me ( no idea when that happened!)
Massimo from Italy ( no moustache this year!) conducted the auction in his inimitable style and was very successful in raising some 38,000 C.U.C. for charity- well done Massimo.
‘Amigo’s de Partagas’ were presented with fabulous boxes of special size and specially banded cigars and I will proudly display mine in my London humidor. The show followed the dinner and was as breath taking as ever. I’ll try and wham some movie clips on to our Facebook page in the next day or two
Herfed a few in the lounge at Jose Marti airport before the flight back home to finish a memorable Festival trip and my last overseas trip of the year. I think I have spent 6 months out of the UK this year so it’s good to be back at the office…..if only till the February’s Festival del Habanos
Peaceful puffing
Mitchell
By laura
Another week of herfing finishing with a very late night at the Lanesborough with friends and I sampling the latest Orchant Seleccion Havana cigars which I can confirm are quote splendid 
in fact I’m smoking one now.
Loaded with full flavour and crafted beautifully with a perfectly even burn. Golden colorado maduro wrapper, smooth and sweet from first to last puff.
Cabinets of 25 Singles
… only available at C.GARS Ltd of course. Limited edition that won’t ever be repeated.
Our pre auction cigar evening on the 27th at the lovely Ten Manchester street Hotel is already sold out- no surprises there :) and it should be an excellent night of sampling the best UK regional edition cigars with some champagne and canapés
Brian Ebbesen, our Director of auctions has been at the office most of the week Lotting up all of the cigars for the November 28th auction and the PDF catalogue is finally online it’s a great feature as you can read the catalogue on PDF and click through to the Lots online for bidding. Very cool technology.
After a zillion delays with design and building work it looks like we may yet get our new Turmeaus cigar shop in Mayfair open by the end of this month.
It’s located in Shepherd Market and is the usual small and cool type of cigar shop that we love.
The shop has a great walk in humidor and will stock the complete range of Havana cigars as well Fuente and Davidoff cigars by the stick and by the box.
We will sell a select range of the finest humidors, by Daniel Marshall and Elie Bleu and lighters from DuPont, Dunhill, and Givenchy to name a few. We will have a sampling room in the lower ground floor together with a bank of client lockers.
And best of all our clients in Town can also take advantage of our internet prices and order online for collection instore.
Next blog will be coming to you from Havana as I’m heading over next week for the Partagas Festival and hopefully a little sunshine
Have a smokey weekend
Peaceful puffing
Mitchell
By laura
Yes it’s true, the months have flown since our rather outrageous Summer auction and the date is fast approaching for our winter auction which I believe has more auction Lots than ever before!
Here are the main details:
Auction catalogue with 400 Lots is now online : http://www.cigarauctions.co.uk
Auction Lots are now available for inspection by appointment at our London offices. We are also holding an open day on Sunday 27th November from 1 pm.
Important links:
Click here for Bidder registration
Click here for hard copy catalogue available
Sunday 27th November pre auction event at Ten Manchester street. Click here for details and tickets available here
Monday 28th November auction event together with Sunday 27th November pre auction event. Click here for details and tickets here
Please reserve your places early as we have limited availability and will be operating a guest list
If you are unable to attend the event, we are more than happy to provide specific Lot condition and appearance reports. Simply email us the Lot numbers sales@cgarsltd.co.uk
We’re planning on some fine English Market Selection Havana herfing on the 27th and 28th including:
Juan Lopez Seleccion no.2 ‘ Orchant Seleccion’
El Rey del Mundo Choix de L’Epoque La Flor de Cano Short Robustos
Por Larranaga Regalias de Londres… should be a good start
We’re still hopeful that the new Upmann will be released in the UK this month and we may even see small quantity of the Montecristo No.2 Gran Reserva although I gather it will be out in more reasonable volume early next year. No firm date as yet for the 2011 UK regional but we are ever hopeful (!)
Christmas season is her! Great gift selections on this linkNext week I’m heading off to the sunshine of Havana for the Partagas Festival, always a great event and a good chance to catch up with old friends as well as make new friends, all who appreciate the brand of Partagas. I’ll be staying at the Hotel Nacional as always and herfing nightly on the terrace, visiting 1 or 2 factories as well as Pinar del Rio.
Off to the Lanesborough for a herf this evening with friends
Have a smokey week
Peaceful puffing
Mitchell
Havana cigars - still the best cigars in the world! C.Gars Ltd - the best Havana cigar merchant in the world :-) How wrong can I be? I have 22,000 clients and that doesn't even include my retail customers at my cigars shops in Liverpool, Chester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Hamburg! Kick back with a good cigar and enjoy my blog. Long ashes, Mitchell
