Category: Blog

Summer Smokes

The past weeks have been a blast from the past. Summers like these only existed when we were kids right? When teachers at school took pity on you on hot days and allowed you to work outside on the grass.

Video Nasties

It’s not very British to blow your own trumpet. In fact, it’s frowned upon, although maybe not quite so much as it once was. Today, after all, is the age of boasting what you’re up to on Instagram; having selfies with ‘celebs’; humble bragging about your charity work; making sure the world knows what you had for breakfast on Facebook. It’s enough to make one shudder.

Prince Of Smoke

Do you know Hirochi Robaina? Allow us to introduce you. Hirochi’s grandfather, Alejandro Robaina, was up there with the most famous cigar men ever. The Cuban tobacco farmer lived to a ripe old age (into his 90s) and had a simple existence, although the man was anything but.

The Inside Track

Insider information. When it comes to cigars, you both need it – and should be wary of it. The cigar scene isn’t as sniffy as wine. You will find it easier to circumnavigate, not as confusing and with a lot less bushy haired, red-trousered, braying public school devotees.

State Of Mind

We’ve all been on holiday abroad and enjoyed a carafe or ten of local wine. Sun, sea, sand and sangria is a well-worn theme, but why is it that when that delicious bottle of local vino is home

Have Cigars, Will Travel

The Silly Season is upon us, when families across the country are packed into under-sized suitcases and inappropriate motor vehicles and whisked away on holiday. The Great British holiday may not be the ice cream, kiss-me-quick-hat, hanky-on-head extravaganza it once was, as more and more of us choose to catch our sunburn abroad.

First Among Equals

Hoyo de Monterrey is a legend among cigar Marques. Unusually, virtually the entirety of its current production portfolio is worth revisiting time and time again.

The First Cut Is The Deepest

El Jeffe, Laurence Davis, has one of those big silver cigar cutter contraptions on his desk in most of his video blogs. It has a series of holes of various shapes indented in its metallic surface and when you poke your cigar in your hole of choice – if you’ll pardon the expression – and pull down on the side lever