summer cigar party

[nicwing]

Can't remember.
I have a vague recollection of a lucky dip, glasses of champagne, chaps from Birmingham in hats, very tall people talking to each other, brandy, gold ribbed cigar, whisky sour, a Cuban band, more champagne, little burger things, some more champagne, don't mind if I do and then it's all a bit of a blur......

[mb55317]

We're the new RE's any good?

[AdamK]

Can't remember.
I have a vague recollection of a lucky dip, glasses of champagne, chaps from Birmingham in hats, very tall people talking to each other, brandy, gold ribbed cigar, whisky sour, a Cuban band, more champagne, little burger things, some more champagne, don't mind if I do and then it's all a bit of a blur......

A good night then?

[bfg84]

well from what you can remember it sounds great!

[monkey66]

my head hurts.....

[monkey66]

With the Fox brothers, Andy, Peanut Pete, Stephan, Roger, Nic some damage was done

I didn't fire up a Punch in the end for several good reasons, not lease of which was they had literally come off the boat less than 48hrs before - not ideal conditions for sampling a cigar.

I did however speak to many people who smoked it and there was a clear general consensus, it tasted like a mellow Punch (a less punchy blend than the previous medal d'oro) and had nice construction ....so there you go. It was interesting to note not a single person was raving about the cigar.


The tasting comments must be caviated that these were straight off the boat - may (probably) well be a different smoke in a few weeks/months.


As to the price I was told that there have been several duty and tax increases since the last big UK RE and this accounts for the price hike ....not sure we have seen a 25% increase in cigar duty since the Selection Suprema but that was the answer given.


A great party put on by H and F and a lucky dip extra cigar that could be any of the past UK regional's. You can see the tube pull in the picture. I think it was fair to say RA Belecosos and PL Magnificos where top of most wish lists. I hit a JLSS.


I smoked a '07 Regalos, '98 fundi, JLSS and Hoyo EL2011

We started at JJF at 1.30pm and we fell into a cab at 1.30am the coffee just don't seem to work this morning.
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[nicwing]

Ha ha, team hangovers!!!!!

[spirit_of_will]

Great write up, cheers Monks! Shame that I couldn't join you, nevertheless I've been smoking and wetting the baby's head enough this week!

Would have loved to pull one of the Magnificos out of the lucky dip! Nice that you pulled a JLSS!

Glad you chaps had a great time!


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[Ryan]

Good night last night. Still feeling it. Great to catch up again with Peter, Paul, Nic, Stefan etc. I'll keep this short as I'm not near a keyboard and hate typing on the iPhone. Finished up about 3am by asking my taxi driver to have a drink with me, she wasn't up for it..
Really nice chat with Jimmy at the end if the party. These things are always too short I could put names on maybe 40 of 200ish faces there last night and didn't get a chance to say hi to half of them.
Paul, Jean has a cigar for you in the shop.

[peanutpete]

it was a great day, night and early morning great to catch up with every one i think every one is ok heard from most looks like every one is a bit f......d today
special thanks to Andy and Rob for there tips and recommendations for next week