The Wall Street Journal has an article on cigar clubs today which I enjoyed. Perdomo gets a small plug too.

Here’s my favourite part of the article:

I have been struck by what seems the spontaneous camaraderie (not always the easiest thing to find in New York) enjoyed by those who frequent cigar bars. Also, as much as I hate second-hand smoke, particularly cigarette smoke, I can’t fully get aboard Mayor Bloomberg’s Orwellian plans to banish and tax smoking out of existence. I see lighting up a cigar at a ballgame, for instance, as an inalienable right, something the founders obviously would have written into the Declaration of Independence if they’d realized it was going to be a big deal two centuries later.

Read the full article here.

The crew here at Perdomo Cigars Australia would like to acknowledge the passing today of Don Alejandro Robaina, aged 91.

According to the BBC:

Mr Robaina, the only person to have a brand of Cuban cigars named after him, had been a roving ambassador for the country’s state-run cigar industry.
But more typically, he could be found on his small farm in the Vuelta Abajo region of western Cuba, tending his beloved tobacco plants.

As Jason tweeted:
They were right!! Cigars must be bad for your health. Don Alejandro Robaina dies at the young age of 91. May he RIP.