News: C.Gars Ltd Announces Next Vintage Auction

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C.Gars Ltd. of London has announced the date of their next auction of vintage, limited edition and mature cigars. The summer cigar auction will be held on Monday, June 10 at the Boisdale Canary Wharf in London. The event will start at 6 pm with the auction commencing at 7 pm. During the event, guests [...]

Weekly News (April 8, 2013)

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Editor’s Note: The following is the letter from the editors from the April newsletter, it’s worth repeating. This isn’t a warning and our policies aren’t changing. This is a plea, a plea for a bit more consideration. We pride ourselves on running a website that can present two sides to a conservation. We do not [...]

Press Release: World’s Largest Cigar Auction is Hot Enough for June

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April 4, 2013 (London) – Spring may be a tad overdue but this summer looks set to be the hottest ever in London, if you’re a cigar lover. Many of the world’s wealthiest smokers will flock to Britain’s capital on Monday 10 June 2013 when an estimated £300,000-worth of vintage, rare and mature cigars and cigar-related [...]

News: Vegueros Slated for 2013 Return

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Earlier this week, a post on a message board provided the unofficial announcement as to the 2013 Edición Limitadas that Habanos S.A. would be releasing. The Italian distributor Diadema, S.p.A. posted their 2013 catalog on their website, which listed the trio of cigars that would be joining the Edición Limitada collection. Also contained in the catalog [...]

Weekly News (November 26, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: Slow week on halfwheel, blame turkey, family and illness. In the mean time, our holiday contest has been announced, it’s big and might even tempt me to use Facebook. December is around the corner, that means cigar of the year season begins. Lots of fun. La Flor Dominicana Mean Digger — Details here. [...]

Weekly News (August 8, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: Yes, we are still here. There was some thought that we were going to have to move servers and guess what I spent my weekend doing… After countless hours of php, SQL and SSH, all of which are still foreign to me, it sounds like we aren’t going to have to move servers [...]

Weekly News (July 11, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: And here we are. One week out from the IPCPR trade show and things are reaching their peak. Last week saw a host of new product announcements and this week is likely to be no different. Later this week a massive post outlining what to expect at IPCPR should be up, I’d estimate [...]

Weekly News (July 4, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: Two weeks away from the IPCPR show and another quiet week. There’s a lot of chatter and I imagine this week will be a busy one, but, don’t expect a lot of releases over the next few weeks. Anyways, a relatively brief and concentrated news on the 4th of July. — el nino [...]

Weekly News (June 6, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: On Friday, the IPCPR sent out the much awaited “rules” for the bloggers. It was met with quite a host of criticisms, but in the end, I think it can only be viewed as a step in the right direction. There were a host of difficulties involved with trying to create a solution [...]

Weekly News (May 16, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: A lot of tidbits of cigars that we haven’t mentioned this week, but the two major stories are the information regarding the El Rey de los Habanos lawsuit and Michael Herklots’ departure from Davidoff of Geneva. I’ll use this editorial space to comment on some of the interesting reactions to Maryland’s most recent [...]