Cigars: An Introduction
Thursday 21st May at 18.30 | Ribbon Bar & Terrace | £30.00
The wrong side of any sweet shop window, nosed pressed up against the pane, is no place to be. Although there is no barrier as such preventing a consenting adult from buying and enjoying a cigar, a hesitation might exist that leaves you outside the like of JJ Fox round the corner from The Rag for fear of misunderstanding protocol or indeed procedure.
With widening the thriving cigar community within the Army & Navy, take a seat on the terrace for an hour of insight into this world accompanied by a Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2, renown by the cognoscenti as a great introducing to what for many is a profoundly gratifying pleasure.
Joining you on the terrace will be an expert from Hunters & Frankau, the sole importers of Cuban cigars to the UK. Relayed will be service etiquette to help you get up and running on this night and thereafter, and a consideration of what makes a “Havana” a “Havana”, the anatomy of a cigar, the brand history of the most famous marques houses such as Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, and Partagas, and storage, should you be compelled to invest in your own facilities to enjoy cigars away from as well as at The Rag.
In your glass will be something that dovetails with the cigar in your hand. Add to these pleasures the gift of knowledge and this evening could be Day One, Year Zero of a new age.
However difficult a morning or afternoon you have endured, join relative newcomers and the already-acquainted yet still curious for this evening of enlightenment. As Evelyn Waugh suggested: “The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar…”