I was delighted to be given the opportunity to visit Nicaragua, a country where some of the finest tobaccos are grown. During my travels we visited a couple of tobacco fields to see how they grow both their shade grown and sun grown tobaccos.We stopped off at the Drew Estate factor...
During my trip to Cuba I was lucky enough to travel to Pinar del Rio to visit La Vega de Ledesma tobacco plantation. The harvest of the tobacco had recently been completed so a lot of the crops had been cut down. The tobacco leaves had been taken to the air curing barns to re...
Norfolk Dictador Tasting Event
The Turmeaus Knutsford shops first tasting event of the year was a great success. Customers came to enjoy a Fonseca Cosacos with Pitmaster Viognier Wine and Vouray Comte de la Boisserie Wine and a Montecristo No. 4 with Cahors Mal...
Knutsford's first tasting event of the year
The Turmeaus Knutsford shops first tasting event of the year was a great success. Customers came to enjoy a Fonseca Cosacos with Pitmaster Viognier Wine and Vouray Comte de la Boisserie Wine and a Montecristo No. 4 wi...
Liverpool's first tasting event of the year
Customers got to enjoy Ron Barcelo rum and a H.Upmann Magnum 50, which is a lovely mild to medium cigar. It is very smooth with a lovely undertone of coffee and black pepper. A couple of customers enjoyed them that much ...
Norfolk's first tasting event of the year
So our first tasting for the year at Norfolk has just been and it was a great success. The two cigars that were being tasted were the Montecristo Media Corona and the Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 1.James was at hand to give...
- By Nick Hammond
Cigar Journal
Going Going Gone! The CGars Winter Auction
Scandinavian Tobacco Group
The C.Gars winter Auction will be held on Monday 30th November at the Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge and taking the au...
- By Charlie Minato
Halfwheel
Portraits Mitchell Orchant
Mitchell Orchant
Mitchell Orchant's self-described "little empire" is anything but little. American consumers likely best know Orchant through a special edition Regius p...
Vintage Cigar Auction
It's been the usual crazy/fun week at C.Gars - London with our Winter Auction on Monday afternoon at The Bulgari Hotel. Clients from all over the world had been viewing Lots prior to the auction at my beautiful new walk in humidor (only for aged and rare!) an...
Partagas Festival 2016
I'm just back from the annual Partagas Festival in sunny Havana, a celebration of the brand like no other where 500 + friends of Partagas from all over the world get together for weeks of cigars events. It's not easy for me to get away for the full week so I...
- By James Leavey
Cigar Journal
UK's Cigar Epicenter Moving North
Liverpool Shop Humidor
Liverpools favourite tiny tobacconist, Turmeaus was established in 1817 and has just become the UK's largest specialist cig...
- By Nick Hammond
Cigar Journal
Last Vintage Cigars Auction of 2016 To Take Place in London on November 28
Box of H.Upmann Berilos Vintage
The auction, held by C.Gars Ltd, features a massive 350 Lots of aged, rare and vi...
I'd like to say that I'm delighted that our new super-duper Turmeaus Liverpool is open and it is indeed open but not fully open yet. We did a soft opening around 10 days ago as we still don't have our electricity on thanks to a cock up from the council in allocating our pos...
Our annual summer auction was held again at the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge on Monday (20th). Our aged, rare, and vintage cigar auctions always include huge numbers of unbelievable lots from pre embargo cigars to vintage Davidoffs, as well as limited edition humidors. In...
Herfing USA
Just back from a hard weeks herfing in New York :) We enjoyed excellent weather but fortunately the weather was not crucial as there are so many places to herf indoors. New York is seriously cigar friendly. My first stop was Davidoff on 6th Avenue. This used to be...
Habanos Festival 2016by Mitchell Orchant
Just back from the 18th Habanos Festival and by my calculation I have attended 17 out of the 18! I've attended all but one Partagas Festival too. I'm steadily heading for my 100th trip to Cuba over the last 20 years ☺ It'...
February Auction 2016
So, auction time is upon us! Check out the Lots on the auction website 300 Lots of aged, rare and interesting Havanas of all vintage, shapes and sizes. The auction ends this Sunday and it's easy and fun to bid, we like to think of it as cBay... a bit like eBa...
Cigars aged in climate-controlled conditions are sparking the interest of collectors, says Nick Foulkes. But as yet it remains a mysterious art. Illustration by Andy Bunday
I am in Mayfair, but backstage Mayfair. The basement corridor is characterless - wide e...
- By Nick Hammond
Formula Life Magazine
Up In Smoke
Summer Auction Lots
Gasps and then claps and cheers follow the increasingly savage bidding on a box of 100 pre-embargo Cuban cigars at the C.Gars Ltd Summer Auction. Wh...
Cigar Journal
Vintage Havana Cigar Auction On June 20th 2016
Vintage Cigar Auction
C.Gars Auctions are holding the second cigar auction of 2016 at The Bulgari Hotel and online on the Cigar Auction website.Bidding is ...
Partagas Festival - Cigar Auction - Cigar Awards Event - September 2015by Mitchell Orchant
Just back from Havana having enjoyed a splendid few days at the annual Partagas Festival. I've attended all of the festivals bar one over the last 18 years and it's one of the high points on...
Dortmund Trade Show - September 2015by Mitchell Orchant
I spent the weekend at the annual Intertabak trade show in Dortmund. This has to be the largest tobacco trade show in the world, dwarfing the US IPCPR show in size. In fact it is so big my assistant Christine and I were havin...
Exploring the Inka Secret Blend Peruvian Puro
Exploring the Inka Secret Blend Peruvian Puro
A Unique Cigar Making Waves in the United Kingdom will Launch in the United States in 2013
It's dark and shrouded in mystery. It's a thick, heavy robust...
This years Specialists conference was held at the Waldorf Hilton in the Strand and I was delighted to attend
with my assistant Michelle form our London office, Christine and Alfie representing Turmeaus Tobacconist
retail shops in Liverpool and Chester as well as my partner Ron Morrison.
R...
