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LA CASA DEL HABANO, TEDDINGTON
I visited the casa for the first time yesterday having discovered IT IS ONLY TWO MILES AWAY FROM MY SON'S STUDENT HOUSE IN KINGSTON! Win!
I'm writing this because there are so few accessible cigar shops around and we need to burn them into our brains for when any of us is out and about. This is the closest true cigar shop to me, and my home is 70 miles away.
A beautiful cigar shop in Teddington with a sumptuous cigar lounge downstairs, and a room with customers' humidors and keeps.
A possible future venue for a forum herf, I thought...
I spent a couple of hours in the great company of Ajay Patel, the proprietor of the Casa, and of his staff. Coffee was served. Cigars were inspected, sniffed, squeezed in the large humidor. Cigar smokers and the brotherhood that bonds them were discussed. Cuba was discussed in detail when Ignacio Balmasede, the man in charge of La Casa Del Habano worldwide, arrived to see Ajay out of the blue! It was very useful to talk about Cuban homestays and cigar rollers and hotels and places to visit in Havana and Trinidad, frankly, as I'm thinking about the detail of our family trip to Cuba.
All of which might make it sound rather formal. It wasn't at all. My two hours there were cool. We discussed the aroma in a walk-in humidor as SEXY best of all. (I get excited. I used the word. Ajay agreed. Apologies in advance for Saturday boys lol).
I bought a number of single sticks, a punch cutter (to compare draws - I've never used one) and a 2-Robusto cigar case, and I think I smoked just about the most arousing cigar I've ever experienced. See the stick pic below.
PARTAGAS SERIE P, NO 1, PYRAMIDAS
I LOVE Partagas, but this was a big step higher than what I'm used to. Ajay asked me a few cigar preference questions, and if I'd had lunch, and suggested this cigar.
What power!
From the very first draw, it was beautifully rich and very strong... If I start describing this, I won't get my breakfast this morning! Trust me - It was a zapper of a smoke. I love powerful stogies. As a real man, they never outface me.
Has anyone smoked one of these? I believe it was so rich because of the time it had been aged.
I'll end here. Just wanted to put on record for fellow brothers that if you are in Richmond or Kingston in South-West London, you would really regret not dropping by here. In fact, you'd be a fool!
And it would be great to get a write-up about any other good cigar stores around the UK because they are precious commodities.
Bryan
LA CASA DEL HABANO, TEDDINGTON
I visited the casa for the first time yesterday having discovered IT IS ONLY TWO MILES AWAY FROM MY SON'S STUDENT HOUSE IN KINGSTON! Win!
I'm writing this because there are so few accessible cigar shops around and we need to burn them into our brains for when any of us is out and about. This is the closest true cigar shop to me, and my home is 70 miles away.
A beautiful cigar shop in Teddington with a sumptuous cigar lounge downstairs, and a room with customers' humidors and keeps.
A possible future venue for a forum herf, I thought...
I spent a couple of hours in the great company of Ajay Patel, the proprietor of the Casa, and of his staff. Coffee was served. Cigars were inspected, sniffed, squeezed in the large humidor. Cigar smokers and the brotherhood that bonds them were discussed. Cuba was discussed in detail when Ignacio Balmasede, the man in charge of La Casa Del Habano worldwide, arrived to see Ajay out of the blue! It was very useful to talk about Cuban homestays and cigar rollers and hotels and places to visit in Havana and Trinidad, frankly, as I'm thinking about the detail of our family trip to Cuba.
All of which might make it sound rather formal. It wasn't at all. My two hours there were cool. We discussed the aroma in a walk-in humidor as SEXY best of all. (I get excited. I used the word. Ajay agreed. Apologies in advance for Saturday boys lol).
I bought a number of single sticks, a punch cutter (to compare draws - I've never used one) and a 2-Robusto cigar case, and I think I smoked just about the most arousing cigar I've ever experienced. See the stick pic below.
PARTAGAS SERIE P, NO 1, PYRAMIDAS
I LOVE Partagas, but this was a big step higher than what I'm used to. Ajay asked me a few cigar preference questions, and if I'd had lunch, and suggested this cigar.
What power!
From the very first draw, it was beautifully rich and very strong... If I start describing this, I won't get my breakfast this morning! Trust me - It was a zapper of a smoke. I love powerful stogies. As a real man, they never outface me.
Has anyone smoked one of these? I believe it was so rich because of the time it had been aged.
I'll end here. Just wanted to put on record for fellow brothers that if you are in Richmond or Kingston in South-West London, you would really regret not dropping by here. In fact, you'd be a fool!
And it would be great to get a write-up about any other good cigar stores around the UK because they are precious commodities.
Bryan
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