7 Sep
My good friends David & Debbie from Vancouver visited Europe and decided to spend a few ( too short … ) days with me. Great idea as I had not seen them for over a year when we last spent time together in Havana, where David has been a few times and twice with me. Read more…
2 May
Oh, the joys of being retired, having time and having a good roller nearby. Sr Eduardo Pulido from the Partagas factory in Havana is on a tour in Germany and was rolling Robustos today at Salih Dalay in Saabrücken. So another quick, fast and furious drive down towards France, this time at 190 km/h on Read more…
28 Oct
I have always enjoyed Salih Dalay’s you tube channel and his relaxed, unorthodox and highly interesting videos, so when he contacted me asking for an interview, I immediately agreed. But for this interview, being for his newly started Connoisseurs Corner, he wanted a special, rare vintage cigar, so not having cigars in that range himself Read more…
11 Oct
I had my first RA 898 ER Alemania a few days ago when I picked up a few boxes at Dalay Cigars LCDH Saarbrücken ( and helped some friends get their hands on them as well ). I loved it. From the get-go. Great flavours, construction, burn, progression, potential – all inside. And then, when Read more…
7 Oct
OK, so these boxes were over a year late in arriving. With the corresponding big hype. And big expectations too. And when they finally hit Germany, the first batch of 500 boxes was distributed in small doses. They basically “evaporated” like rain in the desert … I was told by a merchant that his 50 Read more…
28 Sep
A week after driving to Switzerland it was back on the road. This time staying basically in the neighbourhood as it was an hour’s drive down to Saarbrücken, right on the French-Luxembourg border. I had been in contact with Michael from Dalay Cigars, the trusted and very knowledgeable sidekick to Salih Dalay, the owner, Read more…
