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P.I.M.P.
03-02-2004, 12:57
I have a very good (and inexpensive) cigar contact in Moscow... weekly right off of the Havana inbound flight... PM me for details
The Canary Islands where my Bro lives (lucky basxxrd) have some fine Cigars, i think they are called La Palma's, could be wrong.
DaveUKagain
03-02-2004, 20:24
...... someone call for Don Luigi Habanos ?? ;) This sounds like my cue......
DaveUKagain
03-02-2004, 20:31
Dave`s current Fave Stogies, by the way -
Cuba
Cuaba Generosos
Cuaba Exclusivos
Montecristo 2
Sancho Panza Coronas Gigantes
Romeo y Julieta 1, 2, 3
Jose L Piedra Nacionales (the standard smoke)
Honduras / Dominican Republic
Don Tomas Toros (and robustos)
Quorum (for price) - usually Churchill sizes
Jamaica
Macanudos - good starter cigar but you`ll tire of `em after a while...
Pop over to www.cgarsltd.co.uk and the online shop there, folks, if you`re not an aficianado - lots of reviews there, some of them mine.... don`t buy `em in the UK, for God`s sake, your bank manager`ll love you. ;-)))))
Pipes - I seem to remember we have a very famous pipe smoking gent on this forum - can he make any suggestions for a good beginners` baccy ?? (Thanks RoB.... ;-)) )
ReturnOfBroadmoor
03-02-2004, 20:39
Pipes - yes - start off with Ashton #6; it is available at Gavana on Komsomolsky pr-t last I checked. Alternately, there is the green label Caledonian mixture or Ashton #1 if you want pure tobacco with no aromatic flavoring (a better choice for cigar or cigarette smokers). Caledonian is in short supply now, but Ashton 1 should be available at Gavana or via www.tabachok.ru
DaveUKagain
03-02-2004, 20:44
I thank you kindly, Mr B. ;-))))))) At UK cigar prices, think I`ll go for a pipe soon. Well. Can`t exactly smoke at work - training course at the moment, so - do without the coffin nail cigarettes and have a decent smoke at home is the way I look at it at the moment...... cheers for the info.
Has anyone heard of Danneman cigars?
Moscow Wolf
05-02-2004, 03:08
Yes, sold in numerous places even Ramstore, (as you walk in on the right in a display cabinet) or, if not there then, certainly the next supermarket down on Krasnopresnenskaya. I think they are Dutch and mainly minatures but I'm not certain. They don't like us smoking in the Zoo, the visitors begin to think we're spoilt!
ReturnOfBroadmoor
05-02-2004, 09:49
Danneman are German, made with Brazil or Sumatran tobacco and are available in sizes ranging from filtered minis to full size coronas. They recently introduced a premium line of Nicaraguan cigars; that was what I was smoking last time the band played at Hard Rock - it was nothing special given the price (just over 500 R)
DJ Biscuit
05-02-2004, 13:52
Danneman suck big time. These little guys are pushed in most bars and pubs and they CANNOT be called cigars, pleeeeaaaase!
Are those the ones that are dipped in cognac and sold under the name 'Al Capone' or something cliche like that?!
There is a place in the perekhod outside the brown line at prospect mira which has a large selection of pipe tobaccos and cigars...don't know how expensive it is though.
ReturnOfBroadmoor
05-02-2004, 15:18
Dannemann's version of the Al Capones (for all I know, they also make Al Capones) is called MOODS. Not very good at all.
DaveUKagain
06-02-2004, 02:28
Flavoured cigars get the big thumbs down with serious stogie smokers, or anyone who doesn`t wear clown shoes for a living. :) Danneman`s are like Villigers, King Edwards et al - not the potato - they`re a cigar for people who have never seen a cigar but once heard one described....... ;)
America had, and still has, a tradition of the "five cent cigar" - the good ones usually cost 15c, but I digress. Garcia Y Vegas, Al Capones etc usually belong to that category, but it`s a fiercely competitive market with brands coming and going, and it takes something special to stand out. As RoB will tell you, Cubans are of such variable quality that buying one`s an expensive risk - threw away an expensive Cuban corona tonight, totally plugged, wouldn`t smoke. Dominicans and Hondurans are recommended - I know RoB smokes Ashtons - haven`t had the pleasure yet, but I`m tempted. But. Your tobacconist - if he`s a good `un - will usually recommend a decent smoke to you if all this confuses you. ;-)) Don`t buy stogies outside of specialist tobacconists, by the way - they`re usually badly stored and the fella selling them to you don`t geef a damn if you come back or not. A good tobacconist WILL make the effort.
Ey up, DJ, have you been converted to the cause recently ? :)
ReturnOfBroadmoor
06-02-2004, 10:47
Ashton cigars disappeared from Moscow lately - unless I forgot where I found them in the first place (at a reasonably high price - Aromatniy Mir near m. Dobrininskaya has them for >600 RUR which is not really worth it, to put it mildly).
Disagree slighty with you there Dave - I like a Villigers every now and then, and would not put them in the same class as say a Hamlet, which are frigging awful.
Just for the record I like Bolivars & Trinidads - and when in lighter mood a Cohiba or a Montecristo
:respect:
ReturnOfBroadmoor
06-02-2004, 12:27
Another one to avoid - Fittipaldi - apparently Emerson Fittipaldi either invested in or sold his name to a Dominican cigar company - and the result makes me want to drive away, very, very fast. Only agent for them in town is the otherwise quite good Tabakeria chain (Serpukhovskaya, Arbat, Galeria Akter).
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