Tag: tobacco

Opportunity Knocks

Turn everything that happens to you into an opportunity. The ability, to do that, one suspects, is the height of human wisdom. Bad things happen of course, and everything’s relative.

All Who Wander Are Not Lost

Relentlessly pushing onward in one’s life is both necessary and slightly alarming. We mark the passage of time with birthdays, Christmas celebrations, annual traditions, sporting finals. Yet it seems we barely take time to pause, have a good look around, appreciate what we already have and what we’re already built rather than always hunting down more, more, more.

Dortmund

As promised, a little more detail this week on what it’s like to visit a cigar trade show. A tobacco trade show to be more precise; and to narrow down the field to a precise point, the InterTabac in Dortmund, Germany.

How to Launch a Book

A whirlwind tour, a book launch, a tobacco tradeshow, a bad back and not much sleep – a diary of how (or maybe how not, who knows?) to launch a book.

Get In Training

It could be entitled ‘All You Ever Wanted To Know About Cigars, But Were Afraid To Ask.’ It isn’t. It’s just called Cigar Training. But Sautter is the only retailer in the UK which offers it. And it’s a great way to learn about cigars.

Smoke with Laurence live on #Periscope!

We regularly receive very positive feedback from our YouTube videos, with a lot of people preferring the long format / discussion reviews.

Sautter Ashes Update

During Laurence’s review of Cohiba Majestuosos 1966, he happened to accidentally stumble upon a personal best tower of ash.

Sautter Ashes & LD reviews the Cohiba Majestuosos

Laurence was recently inspired when smoking the Cohiba Majestuosos which garnered his personal best longest ash. You can watch the video below (apologies for the quality, but our main camera failed on us). It’s the first time we’ve ever seen him overwhelmed by a cigar and it makes for pretty captivating viewing!   What Laurence is suggesting […]