Christmas at LCDH

[mb55317]

Sun has come out now! British weather at it's best!


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[ajay]

once your down in the Lounge you will have no idea what is happing in the world outside...as long as we all have good cigars...we can stay snowed in...lets see who the hard core cigar afic are!...

[Simon-JG-hr]

Just pulling out of Waterloo... Not long now... (Plenty of spirit, and spirits, to share )

[monkey66]

What a great evening!

I am home, a little pished and very happy.

Ajay - many thanks for hosing and putting on a great spread. Once again very generous with your knowledge and some once in a lifetime smokes.

Mat - many thanks for all your hard work

Great to catch up with old friends and meet some new. I think there was more bottles of fine spirit on the tables than there were people.

I smoked:

H.Upmann Noella from the new jar. Really nice especially in the second half, going to be great in five years or so, lovely vitola.

Trini Ingenios ...my first of these. Very non-trini like, strong and spicy. In a blind test I would never know it was a trini.

Partagas Robusto Extra black label from the 2009 dinner. Surprisingly mild to start with but finished strongly.

Trinidad 1994 Lancero from one of the 14 (I think) boxes signed by Fidel Castro from the 1995 Paris 'dinner of the Century' ...this was a real treat for most of us ....Ajay does it again, simply stunning and probably never to be repeated

I drank ....everything
I ate ...everything

Great turn out despite the snow and a fantastic evening.

[jibjob79]

+1 on a fantastic event. The food from shambles across the road was to die for, the quality and range of whiskeys and rum (only 1 bottle lol) that everyone brought was exquisite. However this paled into insignificance compared to the good company from the members, Ajay's natural flare as one of the most knowledgeable and charismatic hosts and some of what i can only describe as cigar porn to be offered. There really should be private booths for some of the cigars he showed us so you can appreciate them properly and privately lol. I can honestly say this was by far the event of the year for me.

Apologies to anyone who know has the dreaded man flu as i am totally blocked up this morning. The large quantities of lemsip and locket got me through the event but it may be a while before i can fully appreciate a cigar fully.

[Lascaux]

yeah what a day!

Lovely food, lovely whisky, lovely rum, lovely company

My Damages:

H.Upmann Noella. 1st third not much, from then on very tasty. Very good for a young'un

Monty 4 reserva... I dont think ive ever come across a small
smoke to have so much flavour

H.upmann Dunhill pre-embargo seleccion suprema (can't remember which!) - up there in the top 5 cigars I've ever had. incredible complexity for such an old smoke. smoked very very slowly, just incredible. smooth creamy start, some real power by the end, one of the few cigars i can taste things in - nutmeg, lemons, cream. YUM

Trinidad 94 lancero from the signed box! Would have been the smoke of the evening/week/year if it hadn't of come after the upmann!

:-)

[peanutpete]

i echo the guys comments, what a great night, smoked many of the cigars mentioned but after the trini 94 lancero they paled in my memory.
once again thanks to all the guys for making it a great night and thank you Ajay for hosting us

[mb55317]

A great afternoon/ evening and a really good turn out for UKCF despite the weather.

I started off with a Hoyo Des Dieux followed by the new RA Superiores and finally the Trinidad Lancero. Wow what a cigar! I thought the Partagas 109 was my best for the year but I think this just clinches it.

Thanks to Ajay for being a great host and everyone else for coming along and making this such a great event.

Happy Christmas everyone!

*this event was brought to you by Ajay Patel and Ron Zacapa (thanks Lascaux!!) ;0)


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[Deano]

Great food great smokes, thanks everyone and Ajay. And again, thanks to Joe for letting me drink his rum!

[snooky]

Thanks Ajay for a great evening, my first time in Teddington, great setup and venue, we were treated to some superb cigar porn and delicous canapes, booze a plenty, shame i had to catch that train though the ol booze was have a sedating effect, i'm glad our coughing didnt get in the way of some good smokes, i started with a San Cristobal Mercaderes very nice woody flavour, smoked a JL2 followed buy a vintage R&J .
Not too dissapointed the pole dancers didnt show, strewth theyd have thighs like tree trunks round those 18" pillars, another cure for ear wax.
Thanks again and a Merry Xmas to all .

[Monkey Nuts]

Top evening!

Great to meet everybody last night, and you couldn't really ask for much more from an evening - good company, plenty of delicious whisky, and fine cigars.

My first time at Ajay's and what a place it is! Big thank you to Ajay himself for such a fine spread, and it's great to meet someone with genuine passion and enthusiasm for what he does.

For the record I smoked an El Rey del Mundo Choix de L Epoque (UK 2009 Regional Cigar), the Ramon Allones Superiores, and Partagas Robusto Extra Black Label and thoroughly enjoyed the lot!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys and Merry Christmas!

[ajay]

To all who come down for the UK Cigar Forum Christmas Party at La Casa Del Habano Teddington. With so much snow you all made it down...well done!...its amazing how far we cigar smokes would go to meet to good company and smoke great cuban cigars.

You are all welcome and was a pleasure to have you all here, yes i agree so may bottle of whiskey and rum, was great to try so many...but the one i liked was Za Cappa...a perfect cigar match.

The H.Upmann Selecction Suprema was No87 from a Cab of 50's from 1960's.

Smoked the following cigar on the night!...

The H.Upmann Noellas jars, what a great cigar...started of with good flavour, good for a new cigar but yes the third part of the cigar was fantastic, a great cigar in about 5 years or longer...

The La Gloria Inmensos, a Sublime size...rich in flavour. still young..but wil be good..
Also smoked the Ramon Allones SUPERIORES, amazingley a very well made cigar, and good flavour...lots of nuts and cream flavour...

And yes. my last cigar...Partagas Robusto 2009 from the Partagas festival 2009...a well rolled cigar, good drew..but a few was too good of a drew(to easy)...rich in aroma, my cigar picked up half way down, with chocolate and dark coffee...lots of spice at finish...
Glad you all enjoy the food which was organized by my wife...she always does a great job...i can only organize one thing at a time...my cigars and which one I'm going to smoke that day....Thank you Bhavna.


You guys talk about cigar porn, i have cigar porn page/ this is what you call a porn site!...

http://www.broadweighs-cigars.com/vi...20to%20palace/

Thank you again Dean for organizing this and thanks to Matt for crossing the 'Ts'

To all at UK Cigar Forum once again thank you for coming down, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

We will be hosting a Cigar Summer BBQ so please keep a look out for dates...it will be in Teddington at Shambles...closer to what summer we have i will post up date.

Regards to all
Ajay & Bhavan
La Casa Del Habano
www.havahavana.com

[michael69]

Sounds like a great evening... Ajay's is definitely the best place anywhere for anything cigar-related in my opinion and experience.

Real shame I couldn't make it (I'm really jealous having read the posts!)

Glad you all had a great time

[Robusto]

No photos to put up, gents????.....

[jibjob79]

No photos to put up, gents????.....

Well these are what you could have smoked.






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