Rocky Patel
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The Summertime Smoke 2026: The UK cigar festival that keeps getting better
If you weren’t at EJ Churchill Shooting Ground in Lane End, High Wycombe, this weekend on Saturday, 1st August, you truly missed an incredible second edition of The Summertime Smoke — the UK’s premier cigar festival. After spending the weekend there, it’s safe to say that it has firmly established itself as one of the…
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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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I competed in the Cigar Smoking World Championship UK Heats 2024 – hear how I got on!
My passion for cigars is taking me on quite the journey. I recently “competed” in the first UK heat of this year’s Cigar Smoking World Championships. Yep, even I have surprised myself 😂. Here’s how it went down… Background For those of you that don’t know, the Cigar Smoking World Championship is an international competition in the…
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Cigars for beginners
Since setting up this website, I often get asked by my readers what cigars they should smoke if they are a beginner or a newbie to the cigar scene. This is a tricky question for me to answer, as I don’t consider myself a cigar aficionado – I still have a long way to go…