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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...
- Half wheel
REGIUS SELECCION ORCHANT ROBUSTO LE (PRERELEASE)
London has earned its place as a hotbed of cigars, due in some part to retailers who can trace their roots back some 200 years and an affluent population who can afford the luxury. But what it hasn’t been known ...
New Orleans Trip - July 2015
I reckon this was something like the 16th or 17th IPCPR (previously RTDA) trade show I have attended in the USA and this is the second time I have been to the show in New Orleans. he show was HUGE!!! and I love seeing all the manufacturers of cigars an...
- Cigar Aficionado
Gordon Mott
Posted: June 17, 2015
Vintage Cigar Auction Brings in $680,000
The bidding was fast and furious, according to Mitchell Orchant, the managing director of C. Gars Ltd. in London, and when his June 15 auction concluded, all but 15 of the 302...
CGARS SUMMER AUCTION - June 2015
Summer Cigar Auction is on Monday... That came around fast! Over 300 Lots in a very impressive catalogue if I do say so myself. The selection and quality of Davidoff and Pre Embargo cigars is truly breath-taking. Something for everyone with Lot est...
HAVANA TRAINING TRIP - MARCH 2015
I've been a member of the Turmeaus management team for some years now and it has always been my dream to visit Cuba. My first time trip to Cuba was thanks to Hunters & Frankau and what a great trip it was! It was a long journey as I couldn't wait to...
- Great Yarmouth Mercury
Strike a pose like Churchill or Che at Norfolk's new cigar smoking 'destination'
Text: Liz Coates
27 March 2015
Tucked away on a small rural industrial estate is an unlikely smoking oasis.
With its sampling lounge and temperature-controlled '...
XVII FESTIVAL HABANO - FEBRUARY 2015by Mitchell Orchant
By my reckoning this was the 16th out of 17 of the February Festivals I have attended. I was in Havana for the first one but too poor to buy a ticket to the gala dinner! It's been quite amazing to see the Festival develop, ch...
- Cigar Journal
Mitchell Orchant - A Phoenix Risen from the Ashtrays
When the smoking ban was introduced in the United Kingdom in 2007, many British tobacco retailers thought it was the end. But with a lot of acumen, expertise and sheer hard work, Mitchell Orchant's cigar business has ...
- Cigar Aficionado
Gordon Mott
Posted: June 4th, 2015
Online Cigar Auction Features Vintage Cubans
London cigar retailer C.Gars Ltd. will hold its second vintage cigar auction of this year on June 15. The auction, to be held at The Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, has mor...
- UK Cigar Scene Magazine
Largest Cigar Store in the UK set to open in Liverpool
The Northwest is certainly a burgeoning area for cigars, hardly breaking stride from the opening of the UK's new Casa del Habano at 32 Watergate Street, in Chester last November, C.Gars Ltd have announced ...
- Liverpool Echo
Liverpool city centre cigar and whisky lounge where smokers are most definitely welcome
By Alan Weston
April 12, 2015
A famous city specialist tobacconist is hoping to significantly expand its Liverpool city centre operation... and give customers the chance to smoke ...
- By Gordon Mott
Cigar Aficionado
A box of 250 Romeo y Julieta Invencibles, which have an estimated selling price of between $41,550 to $49,100.
Vintage Cigar Auction Puts Pre-Embargos On The Block
A box of 250 pre-Cuban e...
UK Cigar Scene
What's In Your Humidor?
This month we popped in to speak to Mitchell Orchant and discovered two cigars which most people will have anticipated were all either smoked or locked away in collector's humidors. We sat and talked and smoked one of the first cigars, the Pun...
SPECTACULAR BOISDALE
- Cigar Journal
Text: Nick Hammond
December, 2014
There is a gathering of movie producers at the bar. I'm not entirely sure what the correct plural would be - a murder or a gaggle, perhaps? Whatever it is, their company is riveting. As well as hair-raising Hollywood ...
