The Crowned Heads of New World Cigars
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond continues his series taking a closer look at New World cigars. In this article, he speaks to Jon Huber, co-creator of boutique specialists, Crowned Heads…
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Fancy a Nightcap?
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond discovers the perfect ‘nightcap’, employs his very own cigar butler and stumbles across the ideal aide memoire for the forgetful cigarophile in your life…
Regius: The £40,000 Cigar
Got a spare £40,000 kicking around in your bedside cabinet? Then put it to good…
New World Cigars
“When it comes to cigars, the world is neatly cleaved in two. Forget the different regions, the different soils, the climates and the countries. You either smoke Cubans or Non-Cubans.” Behold the New World cigars…
Smoke, Spirits and a Garden Room
December may seem a curious time in which to launch a new menu for a…
The Lady Smokes
For most of last year, and some of this, I made frequent visits to Manchester.…
A Cigar Dinner at The Montague
“Linen-draped table, sparkling glasses, bottles of inky wine, a pastoral outlook and a full humidor. That’s a recipe for success.” Nick ‘Monty Cristo’ Hammond dines and puffs at The Montague on the Gardens.
A Cigar Auction Goes Something Like This…
“Everyone else is raising their hand occasionally, notifying the auctioneer of another £100, £500, £1,000 bid. I’m trying not to scratch my nose and end up the lucky winner of a £10,000 box of Davidoff Dom Perignon.”
The Lanesborough’s Cigar Luncheon
As I sit down and reach for my napkin, a silver platter arrives before me with 12 Flor de Canos arranged clockwise upon it. I steal four o’clock with a murmur of thanks and fire it up with quiet elation. Crikey, this is something special.
Nowhere I’d Rather Be
The gathered crowd – lawyers, army officers, restaurateurs, luxury retailers and your dedicated correspondent – were united by the love of food, drink and fine cigars and by golly, didn’t we prove it…
Rare Smokes at Boisdale
Monty Cristo ventures to Canary Wharf for a full-body massage at the Four Seasons Hotel, followed by a night of debauchery at Boisdale for an international cigar auction of mammoth proportions…
A Cuban Cigar Walk
Three arbitrary, independent, words. Put them together though, and you have an intriguing premise on…