Cigar Events
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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…
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Cigars, Sips & Sun: Exclusive events with Les Deux Canards
Les Deux Canards is a UK-based company founded in 2023 by friends Sam Saunders and Jacob Donohoe. Specialising in intimate gatherings centred around fine cigars, paired drinks, and engaging conversation, the brand takes inspiration from their travels through South and Central America—where they explored tobacco farms, met skilled Torcedors (cigar rollers), and immersed themselves in…
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The Summertime Smoke 2025: A review of the UK’s first cigar festival
It’s been an exciting summer for the UK cigar scene, and this past weekend marked a historic moment: the country’s first-ever cigar festival — The Summertime Smoke — hosted by Bright Leaf Distriubtion & Havana House at the renowned E.J. Churchill Shooting Ground in Buckinghamshire. A real first for the UK — this wasn’t just…
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Meet the Makers 2025: The ultimate cigar & whisky experience at Carlowrie Castle, Scotland
Wow, wow, wow—what a weekend. I’ve recently returned from Edinburgh, Scotland, still buzzing from one of THE cigar events of the year—and still recovering! Meet the Makers, held Saturday, 26th July 2025, was a rare opportunity: where we got to spend the entire day in a Scottish castle, sipping world-class whisky, smoking some of the…
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Celebrating 20 years of the Windsor Cigar Cruise: An unforgettable evening of cigars on the River Thames
Last night Friday, 4th July 2025, cigar enthusiasts and aficionados gathered for a standout event in the cigar calendar: the annual Windsor Cigar Cruise. Hosted aboard The Georgian, the cruise offered a brilliant evening of cigars, food, drink, and stunning views along the River Thames. We were very lucky last night because the sun had its hat…
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Cigar Smoking World Championship UK Final & British Open 2025 – A report!
Over the weekend, Bosidales of Canary Wharf proudly hosted the UK Final & British Open for the 2025 Cigar Smoking World Championship. This event attracted cigar newbies, enthusiasts and aficionados from all corners of the country, eager to compete in one of the most unique and refined contests in the world: the art of slow…