Gordon Mott's Blog Archives

December 2007

Wrong Again on Cuba

Posted: 04:46 PM ET, December 19, 2007

I told you so.

It is always a little dangerous for a journalist to openly pronounce, “I told you so.” But I had one of those moments today when I opened the front section of the New York Times. Read more

My First 80th

Posted: 11:22 AM ET, December 18, 2007

I’d been waiting for this moment since last year, when the Padrón family gave the world a tantalizing glimpse of its new cigar, the Padrón Serie 1926 80 Years, at the Las Vegas Big Smoke. We just call it the 80th Anniversary for short, but that shouldn’t be confused with the company’s 1964 Anniversary Series. Read more

A Night At Club Macanudo

Posted: 11:43 AM ET, December 07, 2007

Since I’m a suburban resident, I don’t frequent the cigar bars of the city very often after work hours. But a friend of mine was recently in town, and I hadn’t seen him in a long time. He suggested we meet at Club Macanudo one night this week. Read more

Thoughts on the U.K.

Posted: 09:19 AM ET, December 04, 2007

I haven’t been to the United Kingdom since the new smoking laws went into effect. I had read about those laws, and couldn’t quite register that smoking in public had been virtually outlawed across the country—in the bastion of cigar-smoking, you can no longer smoke. Read more

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