Just a quick update to signal the opening of a new great place to sample cigars in London: Edward Sahakian of Davidoff has opened a cigar lounge in the new Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge (click here for more details).
The lounge is great, very spacious and comfortable and it offers a good - and growing - selection of current and aged cigars. It will deserve a proper post in due course, in the meantime I just post a quick shot (apologies for the low quality as it comes from my blackberry) of the first cigar I sampled there, the new Cohiba Piramides Extra that only recently made it to the UK, a 54 ring gage for 6"3 in length, still a green smoke but showing great potential. You cannot see it well from this picture, but the cigar also has a lovely new band, full of details (and less subject to counterfeiting).
Mike, the lounger manager, does a great job in serving and entertaining customers and I bet that this shop will become a new favourite amongst the London cigars fans.
Separately, I wanted to report that I smoked a very pleasant cigar tonight, an aged (not sure how aged, but at least 5/6 years old) Romeo Y Julieta Belicos, in the picture below.
This is a very sweet cigar, not very strong that can certainly appeal to non regular cigar smoker.
Happy smokes!
