C.Gars 25th Anniversary

Greetings from sunny London 😊 Hope you enjoyed a smoky Easter break and are stocked up for the May bank holiday fast approaching.

This October marks the 25th anniversary of C.Gars Ltd. A quarter of a century in a very tough and highly legislated industry is quite a milestone! To say it’s gone fast would be an understatement. It seems like yesterday that Laura and I set up the business with very little money but great determination to become the biggest and the best in the cigar business. Fair to say we achieved that dream though we are still super excited for the future growth of the mighty C.Gars! We hope to be announcing a new cigar store and terrace opening in the near future.

C.Gars started as a pure mail order business with what we believe was the first cigar website in the UK and in the early 2000’s expanded into retail cigar shops starting with the acquisition of the last Turmeaus Tobacconist (established in 1817) shop in Liverpool. The shop had been driven into the ground by its previous owners but we believed we could revive the brand and have indeed been doing so ever since.

Our Dominique London Group now operates from 3 mail order warehouses 24 hours a day / every day of the year and 21 splendid cigars and premium spirits shops in 4 countries. I know we dreamt big when we started the business but the business has grown beyond our imagination.

We are planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary with a Summer party in London in August. If you would like to be put on the guest list, drop me an email we will be releasing 25 numbered and exclusive humidors together with 25 bottles of a very special Stalla Dhu single malt whisky to mark our milestone anniversary.

We also operate our fantastic Vintage Cigar Auction platform and have been conducting incredible auctions since 2009. The next sale will be held on the 21st of June and I have been very busy taking in some incredible vintage Havanas over the last few weeks. We will be offering 300 Lots of aged, rare and mature Havanas as well as Davidoff and pre embargo cigars and single malt whisky.

Havana cigar supply continues to be very patchy with Cohiba supply all but dried up. Many of our favourite size Havanas from across all brands remain unavailable but I have to say in comparison to other countries our brilliant UK importer Hunters & Frankau have generally kept us well supplied and if you can’t find your favourite Havana available there are always plenty of alternatives that are available.

We are still hopeful that the overdue UK regional edition Ramon Allones Private stock will be released this year but at this stage I think it will be very late this year.

Plenty of news in the press about the Cohiba 55th anniversary cigars being released but I’m afraid we don’t expect to see them in the UK any time soon (much as I would like to!)

Our New World range of cigars is quite huge and their popularity goes from strength to strength. I think the market has shifted to around 50/50 Havana cigars to New World cigars now.

We recently released 2 incredible exclusive and, limited edition cigars from Plasencia (one of my favourite brands) read all about the Plasencia – Orchant Seleccion and Plasencia – Dominique London Seleccion on this link I selected the blends for these premium cigars and am very proud of this co – branded project.

We have a huge range of exclusive cigars made for C.Gars and Turmeaus cigar shops  I have carefully selected these brands and blends and build the range over many years. A cigar for every smoker and every occasion. Super quality and great value.

Our range of Independent bottled single malt whisky Stalla Dhu continues to pick up multiple international awards. Read about the range here and if you’re looking for the perfect dram with a cigar look no further than our gold medal award winning Orchant Selection cigar malt.

If you’re looking for a great evening of cigars and whisky sampling check out our events page we have around 80 events planned for the rest of this year and I hope to see you at quite a few of them! If you want a really special evening visit Puffin Rooms, live jazz 7 nights a week, fabulous tapas menu and the largest whisky bar in the North.

I’m off to our beautiful La Casa del Habano store and cigar terrace in sunny Tenerife next week if you’re on the island come and join me for a cocktail 😊 and if not you can usually find me sampling and talking all things cigars at C.Gars – St James’s on a Wednesday.

Have a smoky weekend

Peaceful puffing

Mitchell