C.Gars Ltd, UK’s largest specialist cigar merchant, opened a new cigar store in Knutsford, Cheshire. The store features a wide range of Premium cigars, cigar accessories and spirits and has a cigar sampling lounge.
Up Close: The Garden Room at the Lanesborough Hotel London
The Garden Room’s humidor is legendary, with sticks ranging from current production classics to original Behikes costing thousands. Add to that an astonishing range of vintage wines, ports, whiskies and Cognacs dating back to 1770 and you have an epicurean’s heaven.
Sampling Lounge at Bulgari London Named Lounge of the Year
Our readers voted renowned cigar dealer Edward Sahakian’s sampling lounge, located on the mezzanine of the Bulgari Hotel in London’s upscale Knightsbridge neighborhood, best cigar lounge of the year.
5th Nicaraguan Cigar Festival Open for Registration
The 5th International Cigar Festival Puro Sabor Nicaragua 2016, is a celebration that brings together cigar lovers and enthusiasts from around the world to experience the magnificent offering of Nicaraguan cigars, food, rum and culture.
Davidoff Flagship Store Basel opens with a new look
The new Davidoff Flagship Store in the heart of Basel has been designed in accordance with the new globally standardized concept “Davidoff of Geneva – since 1911”, and was opening its doors on June 11, 2015.
A Cigar with Ranald Macdonald – There’s Something Churchillian about him.
At the time of the smoking ban, most venues opted to close their cigar bars, empty their humidors and quietly forget about the centuries of history that made London the cigar capital of the world outside Havana. Not Ranald Macdonald.
30 Years of Gestocigars
Gestocigars, located in Geneva, Switzerland is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2015. A good op portunity to have a look behind the scenes of the Swiss importer company, which has repeatedly garnered attention due to its excellent price-performance ratio.
Cigar Lounges: Fresh Air in Paris
Enjoying a cigar in Paris is quite an easy task – though the choice of places is limited. But there are more and more locations beyond traditional Cigar Lounges in which one can light up a Puro. Follow us for some fresh air.
Active Vacations for Passionados
Héctor Luis Prieto Díaz farm in the heart of the Vuelta Abajo has become a popular day-trip destination for cigar-lovers and tourists. Part of the package: Cuban hospi- tality and in-depth tobacco knowledge directly from the master
Celebration for All the Senses: Côte d’Azur & Monaco
That luxury belongs to the savoir vivre of the Côte D’Azur, tobacco stores like to demonstrate with the Cohiba Behike 56. Here, the Habanos star brand goes to a clientele that likes to spend its nights in casinos.
Denmark: A Tobacco Nation in the Back Rooms
The scene is small and everyone knows everyone, but signs of a trend reversal are there. There are in fact individual, young, cigar-smoking Danes around – a harbinger that Danish cigar culture is slowly gaining momentum again.
Puerto Rico: World Capital of Rum
For epicureans, Puerto Rico is one of the trendy hot spots in the Caribbean. That about 50 years ago the legendary piña colada was invented there, is no coincidence. The puertorriqueños, as the locals call themselves, are a highly creative, multicultural folk and love cigars.


