Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

I am extremely grateful to Rob & Stuart Fox, David McGrane, Andy Ryan and Yiorgos Menesis for their hospitality both during the AmiCigar weekend and in the basement of James Fox, Grafton St, Dublin. We were shown historical boxes of cigars and a beautiful selection of their treasures plus given some outstanding lectures on the Read more…

  My daily cigar ration consists of two cigars, a smaller vitola, say a RASCC, RyJ Nr 2 or MC Nr 4 before/after lunch and a larger vitola before/after dinner. Unless of course I’m in Havana or in warmer climate. Here I will post on the cigar rotation which keeps the cigar ration attractive. To Read more…

  Bags are packed, all is ready to go. Off to Havana early tomorrow for a few weeks of sun, cigars and friends. While there, I’ll meet the group of Canadian friends attending the Encuentro de Amigos de Partagas and we have planned some interesting events like a visit to the factories, to humidor artist Read more…

  The idea of a “joint” tasting came to me when I read a review of a Reynaldo custom rolled cigar from the Hostal Conde de Villanueva, the Elephant foot, truly a monster, in a fellow German blogger’s site, Don Alexandro. So I contacted Alex and suggested we meet at the pharmacy to do a Read more…

  My overnight bag is packed. We, Frank, Jos and I are off to Switzerland tomorrow for a reunion with our friend Wolfgang who shared the Festival in Havana this year with the Portmann group and a visit to our friend Mr Portmann and his sons. Dinner will be a classy affair in St. Gallen Read more…

  I was fortunate in getting both some banded Partagas Lusitanias Gran Reserva Cosecha 2007 released in 2013 ( that is : presented, it’s not out in the stores yet for a long time ) and some more un-banded from the first production release at this year’s XV Festival. I was also fortunate in smoking Read more…

  I am very grateful to Stephan for arranging this fantastic dinner, to John for organizing it and for their invitation to join their group at this very hard to get-in Paladar which I still consider to be number one in Cuba. So much I enjoy the place that we arrived more than an hour Read more…