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Plus: Cigars Around the World retail store/lounge coming to Florida

Doha, Qatar, April 12 – Even while we’re on a trip to the Emirate of Qatar, we’re looking for values for your cigar dollar:

Atlantic Cigar:
Some nice specials on brands which are not always at the top of the radar screen, but worth trying:

• Helix:
Our longtime readers know this is one of the brands we admire most in the mild-bodied category. Stick with the natural-wrapped editions for a wonderfully delicate taste:

> x542 (5 inches by 42 ring), box of 25 was $44.26, now $42.41, the lowest price we’ve seen recently.

> x550 (5 x 50), box of 25 was $48.76, now $46.72 lowest.

Prices on other Helix sizes are also good, but not as well-valued as the two shown

• Macanudo Gold Label sampler, the first time we’ve seen a sampler pack of another of the top mild-bodied cigars on the U.S. market. One each of five sizes in the line for $23.75, a bargain and a great way to try this brand if it has eluded you so far.

• Macanudo Gold Label Somerset – a 5 x 54 torpedo – in a box of 25 for $102.50, equal to the lowest price we’ve seen (also at Abner’s World).

• Santa Rosa Pyramid, a delightful cigar that’s widely underrated, in a box of 25 for $62.10, the lowest price we’ve seen recently.

• Jonathan Drew’s latest masterpiece, the Sauza Tres Generaciones cigar infused with real Sauza tequila, in a nice sampler of three: one each of Don Javier (5 x 48), Don Eladio (7 x 48), and Don Ciobio (6 x 54 torpedo), in a gift box for $23.95. Could be the Father’s Day gift you’ve been looking for . . .

• Saving the best for last, the new Indian Tabac brand sampler: six of Rocky Patel’s best with a specially-created all-metal ashtray for $44.95.

It includes the Rocky Patel 1990 Vintage Churchill (tubed), the Rocky Patel 1990 Vintage Churchill (both 7 x 48), one Sun Grown Toro (6 1/2 x 52), one “The Edge” Corojo Torpedo (6 x 52), one Indian Cameroon Legend Super Toro Maduro (6 x 52) and one Indian Tabac Classic TeePee (5 1/2 x 52). The best way yet to see what all the fuss is about in the Indian Tabac line-up. Perfect for the cigar snob who thinks he’s tried everything out there.

BestCigarPrices.com:
A couple of brands worth noting on special:

• Baccarat, a sweet cigar from Honduras by Caribe Imported Cigars, also the makers of the Camacho Corojo line:

> Belicoso (6 x 54), was $51.50 for the box of 25, now $47.50, the lowest we’ve seen.

> Baccarat Luchadore (6 x 43), was $44.00 for the box of 25, now $42.50.

• La Gloria Cubana fans rejoice:

> Glorias en Cristal (6 3/4 x 43), was $42.00 for the box of 10, now $34.19.

> La Gloria Cubana Minutos (4 1/2 x 40), a great golf cigar, offered in ten packs of five (easy to carry in your bag!) for $93.85.

Cigars Around the World lands in Florida:
Publicly-traded Synergy Brands announced last week that a retail location of Bill Rancic’s Cigars Around the World is projected to open this year in Miami Lakes, Florida.

Rancic, you may remember, was the winner in the first season of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice,” starring New York-based real estate developer Donald Trump. He founded his Cigars Around the World business during the Cigar Boom of the 1990s as an Internet operation.

Now, Synergy, which operates three cigar-sales web sites including Cigars Around the World, is taking the brand equity of the site and Rancic and turning it into a 6,000 square-foot retail store and lounge, creating a sports and entertainment venue for cigar enthusiasts.

Cigars Around the World has developed its primary clientele in restaurants, country clubs and other sports-themed locations, so a retail space which teamed sports and cigars together seemed appropriate. “It was only natural that we would want to expand this business into the retail sector,” noted Synergy Brands president Mike Faibish.

The store itself will feature well-known brands along with specially-made labels from Gran Reserve Cigars (distributors of Breton Legend, Mike Ditka Championship Series, Suarez Gran Reserve) and the Tabacalera La Caya (Don Fano, La Caya and a supplier of private-label brands).

The announcement indicated that Gran Reserve – headquartered in Miami – will have a major role in operating the facility, which will include private lockers and private banquet and event spaces.
~ Rich Perelman

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