Cigar Events
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A visit to the La Flor Dominicana (LFD) Factory
Every February, Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic comes alive for the ProCigar Festival, a celebration of premium cigars. This year, I had the privilege of visiting La Flor Dominicana (LFD), the second factory visit of this festival — here’s how it went down👇. Walking into the LFD factory with Litto Gomez as…
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A visit to the Davidoff Tobacco Fields & Factory – From Seed to Shop
The ProCigar Festival is the Dominican Republic’s annual celebration of premium cigars, held each February in Santiago de los Caballeros and the surrounding tobacco-growing regions. Timed deliberately with harvest season, it is the time of year when the industry opens its doors — granting access to tobacco fields, curing barns, fermentation rooms, and factory floors. I…
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ProCigar Festival 2026: Live Reporting
The ProCigar Festival 2026 takes place 17–20 February in the Dominican Republic, bringing cigar lovers together in Santiago for factory tours, tobacco field visits, exclusive releases and gala dinners. Hosted by ProCigar the Association of Dominican Cigar Manufacturers, it’s a full-on celebration of Dominican craftsmanship at the height of harvest season. I arrived on Saturday 14 February.…
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Attending my first international cigar festival: ProCigar Festival 2026 🇩🇴
This is mad — I’ve just arrived in the Dominican Republic after the long haul from London (via Madrid!) and I’m here for my very first international cigar festival: ProCigar Festival 2026 (17–20 February). Even writing that feels surreal. What started as simply reviewing cigars and visiting shops because I love the hobby has somehow led me…
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Punch Néctares No.50: Ireland’s First Habanos Regional Edition Launches in the UK
Cigar events take place across the UK every week, but on Thursday evening the hottest ticket in town was at James J. Fox on St James’s Street, London, for the UK launch of the Punch Néctares No.50 — Ireland’s first Habanos Regional Edition. Guests arrived from 6.30pm for the standing-room-only event on the ground floor…
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Celebrating 5 Years of London Cigar Smoker — Plus a Review of 2025’s Best Cigar Events!
Can you believe it’s been five years to the day since I started this blog? I honestly can’t believe it myself! 🤯 It all started on the 27th December, 2020, during the COVID lockdown. I was bored and wanted a new challenge, so I set myself a cigar challenge: to smoke one of each brand from the…
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Corita Cigars ‘Expairing’: Experience Meets Pairing
The more time I spend traveling and dipping my toe into the global cigar scene, the clearer it becomes how different the UK market is from what’s available elsewhere. Ultimately, what fills our humidors is largely influenced by importers and distributors, and with limited shelf space dominated by long-established legacy brands, it must be super…
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A Royal Reveal in Cyprus: My journey to Limassol for the Punch Princesas Edición Limitada 2025
This year has taken my cigar journey to another level. What started with a longtime dream — travelling to Havana and Pinar del Río to visit the tobacco farms and cigar factories on My Cigar Adventure To Cuba in March 2025 — quickly evolved into something far bigger than I ever imagined. If you’ve been following me…
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Sampling the new Davidoff Year of the Horse at Surrey Cigars
The Davidoff Year of the Horse 2026 Limited Edition is now available in the UK, giving cigar enthusiasts the chance to experience the newest release in Davidoff’s Zodiac Series (based on the Chinese Zodiac) created for the Chinese market — well ahead of the 2026 Lunar New Year. I had the pleasure of attending the second…
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Cigar & Rum night at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in London
Last week, I had the unexpected pleasure of attending a Cigar and Rum Night at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in London, held as part of Dominican Week in the UK 2025. It was a genuinely memorable cultural event and an opportunity to learn more about the country’s traditions and craftsmanship. Walking into the Embassy I had never…
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Ramón Allones Absolutos Edición Limitada 2024: UK Launch and Review
After a year of anticipation and international rollout, Hunters & Frankau (H&F) has officially launched the Ramón Allones Absolutos Edición Limitada 2024 to the UK market. The launch event took place from November 10 to 14, 2025, featuring 52 events organised by Habanos Specialist retailers in cities across the country, including London, Edinburgh, Belfast, and…
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A visit to La Casa Del Habano – Nottingham
Over the past week or so, I’ve been on a mini tour of the newly opened La Casa Del Habano cigar shops and sampling lounges across the country. My first stop was the official opening of La Casa Del Habano Sheffield — which you can read all about here, along with a bit more background…
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A visit to La Casa Del Habano – Sheffield
You know the old saying, “You wait ages for a bus, and then two come along at once”? That pretty much sums up this month for La Casa Del Habano (LCDH) cigar shops and sampling lounges here in the UK. For years, there were only a handful of them located across the country: Then suddenly…
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EGM Cigars launches Empyrean line at The Emory, Knightsbridge — A luxury rival to the Cohiba Behike?
It’s not every day that you receive an invitation to the launch of a new cigar line, especially at one of London’s most exclusive new cigar spots – The Emory Cigar Merchants in Knightsbridge. With a black-tie dress code, I knew as soon as the invite landed in my inbox that this was an event…
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City of London Cigars in Chiswick & their exclusive cigar events
Over the past couple of years, I’ve become a bit of a fanboy of City of London Cigars. What started as one shop has now grown into four, and I’ve slowly been working my way around them. Holborn back in 2023, Spitalfields in 2024—and they really went ALL OUT there. The sampling lounge downstairs is…