More New Cigars!

After the crazy travels of the last few weeks, it’s been a pleasure to be back in the London office this week which can best be described as an absolute hive of Christmas order activity! I love the Christmas season as the buzz is amazing with three times the normal volume of orders.

We work to full shipping capacity normally so the increased volume is quite a challenge to manage! Our team work is legendary and all orders are being fulfilled fully and rapidly so I reckon Santa Claus will be making on time deliveries 🙂

But how do we do it? Well, we are the only cigar specialist in the world that I know of that works 24/7 – every day of the year, so when you place your order… Its picked and packed and ready for shipping within an average of 6 minutes! Our London and Norfolk warehouses are crammed with stock , everything you see on our websites is actually available and I dare say we must have the largest range and stocks in the UK… As well as more retail cigar shops than anyone in the UK.

Herfing at Ten Manchester StreetManaged to take a break and herf at Ten Manchester Street with cigar smoking chums Dov, Joe and Tim on Tuesday evening. Starting off on the splendid heated terrace and then moving into the sampling room for what ended up to be a very late night herf.

Service as good as ever (TY Paula and Maurizio) perfectly mixed old fashioned cocktails (I lost count they were so good!) and copious amounts of La Flor de Cano Gran Cano cigars were enjoyed immensely.

Ten Manch as we like to call it has become a firm herfing favourite location with a good crowd of regulars as well as hotel cigar smoking guests and of course everyone gets chatting over a good cigar or two.

Herfing at Ten Manchester StreetWe expect the long overdue releases of the Partagas Gran Reserva any day now. I tried this cigar back in March at the Habanos festival and it was sublime. I can’t wait to revisit it. Tasting notes from the two cigars I smoked at the Festival: Full and true Partagas flavour/blend. Refined and smooth medium strength with an incredibly good draw for a double corona.

We also have new stocks of the fabulous UK regional edition La Flor de Cano Gran Cano – in store and online. Buy them while you can as they are flying off the shelves.

I love UK regional editions, they are such awesome smokes. Checkout the range since the beginning of the regionals program here. We still have availability of most of the cigars as we hold back such huge stocks and release them in small quantity year by year. My favourites include the Por Larranaga Magnificos and Punch Serie D’Oro no.1 as well as the incredible Ramon Allones Belicosos which started the whole regional edition cigar program.

Next week we will be releasing  two cigars specially made for Turmeaus tobacconist. Regius – Culebras and Regius robustos. I did the blending of the cigars and think they will be very popular indeed. Just a couple of hundred boxes of each made and available next week in all of our stores as well as online.

If you are following the success of the Inka – Secret Blend cigar range that I created you’ll be happy to see the newly launched Cristales sweet as sugar blend, handmade and long filer 100% Peruvian. Measuring in at 6” length and 41 ring gauge, unbeatable value, superb smoke or a great gift.

We’re still struggling with the huge volume sales for the Inka –Secret Blend brand of cigars which has fast become our bestselling range of non-Cubans. They can’t be beaten for value and are great quality. The Minis are the only handmade mini on the market that I know of and are a great little whiff when you’re short of time and the Bombaso is big enough even for a big mouth like me 🙂 (60 ring gauge!)

We’re introducing a big new range of Dalmore single malts in store and online in the next few days including the delicious ‘Cigar Malt’ which works very well with a cigar obviously 🙂

OK so I’m kicking back for a few hours tomorrow and have my humipouch crammed with some BBF’s, PSD4’s, LFDC Gran Cano as well as some Punch Serie D’Oro no.1. I’m  pairing them up with a bottle of Robert Graham Christmas Malt to get me in the spirit so to speak 🙂

Have a smokey weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell

Merry Xmas Cigar Cartoon