The weekend was spent herfing with my Father on both Saturday and Sunday evenings. He’s my favourite smoking buddy but he does bang on about how his Monte 2’s don’t taste the same as 20/30/40 years ago ! drives me completely bonkers. I did have him hooked on custom blends that Yoel rolled for us a while back but they seem to have gone sick now so I had to find some smokes that would hit the spot. I know what he is looking for as we have almost identical taste. Smooth, sweet, full flavour and light to medium strength and of course an easy draw. We don’t care too much about wrapper colours although generally stay away from maduros.
So as we paced our way steadily through some of this nectar I managed to select the right cigars that hit the spot, starting with an El Rey del Mundo Choix De l’Epoque, followed by a Partagas SD4 ( 2009) and finishing with a Punch Serie D’Oro No 1.
On Sunday we changed the rotation to: El Rey del Mundo Tainos (2001- Orchant Seleccion), Montecristo No.2 ( 2009) and Bolivar Belicosos Finos (2007). Great to spend a lot of serious herfing time chatting about all the years and all the people we have come across since we have been in the cigar business. It’s never really seemed like a day’s work and I still can’t wait to get to the office (or the shops or the warehouses or my client meetings!)
Now getting ready to celebrate my birthday with a few days serious herfing and have already selected a Dunhill Cabinetta, Cohiba Sublimes, Davidoff Anniversario 80th and one or two others…should be a great evening or two which is likely to start tonight at the Lanesborough or Ten Manch.
Latest cigar to be released from Havana !!!!!!
Partagas Serie E . No.2
I smoked this cigar when it was introduced at the February Festival in Havana and was enormously impressed with the blend, 6 months later and it’s even better. Far fuller in strength than the Serie D No.4 fuller in body and richer in flavour. Complex and balanced from the first puff till I almost burnt my fingers on the last puff. Perfect construction and a beautiful colorado maduro wrapper. This splendid cigar measures in at 5 ½” length and 54 ring gauge
First tiny allocation has now arrived and we have decided that newsletter subscribers are offered on a first come first served basis. Order early to avoid disappointment.
Partagas Serie E No.2 Box of 25 £489
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Cigar Auction Lots still arriving daily so we’re looking forward to a great event again still plenty of time for entries but we do start photography and cataloguing at the end of this month ( sellers note!)
We buy and sell vintage Havana all year round (actually every day!) so if you need some advice just shoot me an email [email protected]
Peaceful puffing
Mitchell
