Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  Last December, Min Ron Nee, the author and collector from Hong Kong, was so kind as to send me a selection of rare vintage cigars for a tasting with friends. These cigars are : 1950’s C.E. Beck Albas, 1950’s Maria Guerrero Favoritas en Cedro, 1960’s Partagas Seleccion de Luxe cabinet made for UK merchant Read more…

  I received this cigar last week. Having read both positive and negative opinions about it, I decided to smoke it at yesterday’s pharmacy cigar evening. Supposedly these cigars – both the RyJ and the Montecristo Añejado line – were rolled in 2008 and then left to age in Havana to be released this year. Read more…

  Even the shittiest of days deserves a good cigar, if only to feel better. Andreas’s been having some shitty days and I wasn’t feeling too well myself on Saturday evening when we met in the office for a couple of hours of the basic feel-good ingredients: some beer, a bottle of Claret, a bottle Read more…

  Here is a review of a 2008 Cueto Diadema from my stock that Alex of Don Alexandro Blog wrote today. Happy he enjoyed it, compliments to a great and very detailed review and looking forward to smoke it myself. Like all good shoemakers I give shoes away and run barefoot myself … gave a Read more…

Andreas and I smoked this Dominican cigar or rather : luxury product,  yesterday before the suckling pig dinner at the golf course. It’s a Bossner Ambassador gifted to us last week and it comes in a tube adorned with enough gold lettering to have bankrupted the gold reserves of Burkina Faso. Same applies for the Read more…

Wenn man schon den Montag mit einem Arztbesuch beginnen muss ( Ohrmuschelentzündung ) freut man sich umso mehr wenn zu Hause eine gute Zigarre wartet. Ich habe kürzlich ein Päckchen, samt freundliches Anschreiben, mit einer H.Upmann Magnum 48 EL 2009 zum Proberauchen bekommen und es war eine sehr angenehme Überraschung ! Das Päckchen kam aus Read more…

  I was fortunate enough to smoke this cigar way before the official release in Havana together with Nino. First third : I dry smoked the cigar for a few moments I was hit by the full Tobacco flavors. Unmistakably Partagas. The cigar lit up perfectly and I immediately felt at home. (I love Partagas Read more…