Tag: Havana Club

In Pursuit of the Perfect Pairing

TORVILLE and Dean; Boycott and Edrich; fish and chips – cigars and ice cream? The alchemy of pairing your smokes with food and drink is yet another of the wonderfully layered aspects to our endless fascination with cigars.

Eggs, Bacon – and a Bolivar?

IT’S not everyone’s cup of tea – but the Breakfast Smoke is a big deal, nonetheless. While many brothers and sisters of the leaf recoil in horror at the thought of lighting up shortly after completing one’s morning ablutions, plenty more seasoned pros will tell you that their early smoke is the finest of the day.

Try not to stockpile!

THE eagle-eyed cigar lovers among you may have realised that getting hold of your favourite Havanas – particularly the larger ring gauges – is getting tricky.

Hold Firm

PERVERSELY, after coming through what we all have over the last 18 months, now might be the toughest part of all. In the eye of the storm, one has little option but to turn up one’s collar and lean into the wind. As Mr Churchill once said, “If you going through hell – keep going.”

Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns, In All The World

WHAT a time to relaunch a shop, they said. Why not wait until it’s over, they said. You must be mad, they said. It’s not stopped LD. The ‘new’ Sautter cigar lounge is now open – a revamp of sorts for the Sautter store at Knightsbridge which has been closed for most of the lockdown(s).