I’ve been in the lovely sunny USA now for over a month and spent most days and nights herfing with all different friends, clients and crowds, – cigar tastings – wine tastings – herfs – crawls – dinners, quite a relentless schedule that I have nevertheless thoroughly enjoyed. I think I need a holiday now!
I’ve been smoking my way through tons of Fuente cigars and can’t wait to expand the range over the next month. If you want to try some great NC alternatives you have to try Fuente.
I’ve been watching the news about the riots in London on American TV news channels. If I would not know better from friends in London and around the UK I would have thought that the entire country was engulfed in flames. Talk about rubbish misleading journalism.
As ever I have been very busy buying and selling some of the collectible top end St DuPont lighters which is always good fun and wrapping up final details on some of the massive orders I placed at RTDA/IPCPR in Vegas last month. Looking to buy or sell? Drop me an email and let’s do some bizz.
We are as expected once again completely and utterly out of space in our London warehouse and no doubt will end up expanding yet again in London or Norfolk fairly soon. We are going to be all set for our Christmas season early this year and in some style 🙂 Undoubtedly the largest range of cigar smokers accessories in the UK and more locations to buy them from than anyone in the UK. Add to that the best prices and the fastest delivery and we think we have finally found the recipe for customer satisfaction (and shareholder dividends!) well done to Michelle, Laura and their respective Teams – how on earth do we manage to ship so many orders every day??!!!!! Come a long way since 1997 !!!
It’s almost impossible to keep up with the explosion in humidor sales, the more I increase our range the more we sell. My personal favourites are Daniel Marshall I don’t think you can find better quality or value. Unique styles designed by Daniel and made in Beverly Hills. Of course I’m bias ! especially as I met up with Daniel at Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills last week for a smoke or two 🙂 Daniels humidors can of course be found on our website and will soon be stocked in our Hamburg and Mayfair cigar stores.
Our pipe shop clients will be happy to hear we have some fabulous new Meerschaum pipes on the way to all the shops in a couple of weeks time and we have just commissioned a new range of our own brand budget pipes to be made.
I couldn’t understand why I have received so many emails from clients chasing me for release dates for new cigars such as Partagas Serie E, Montecristo Gran Reserva, Cohiba 1966 LE as I checked with Hunters and Frankau and we understand that Cohiba may be released in September and Monte Reserva in November but fear not as they seem to be all over the USA already !!! and I have seen loads of them.
Quite incredible if not shocking how many people can be duped into buying fakes.
Some actually look quite good and others rather awful. The usual story is ‘ I have a contact who knows someone in the factory and he / she gets me bundles ( no boxes of course as they are ‘pre release’) of these cigars and they are only $12 Bucks a stick’ I mean seriously, give me a break. Need I go on further? Call me old fashioned but I don’t by my Louis Vuitton bags on the streets if you get the analogy. Why do people take a chance and buy these fakes. If something seems to be too good to be true – trust me, it is too good to be true. lol
Winter cigar auction http://www.cigarauctions.co.uk/ date now set for 28th November in a private dining room at Boisdale Canary Wharf and should be the usual exciting event. We are accepting Lots from Tuesday of this week onwards. Always happy to advise and give free valuation service, simply drop me an email on [email protected] as ever bidding will be available online if you can’t make the auction.
OK so time to sign off and pack my suitcase ready to head back to Blighty where at least I’ll be able to smoke some great Havanas again 🙂 not sure when I’ll get back into the office, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on jet lag but I’m always on the end of an email for advice or just a chat about the last cigar you enjoyed… or didn’t !
Have a smokey weekend
Peaceful puffing
Mitchell