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Grand Opening of Diamond Crown Lounge at Briar Patch Loehmanns Plaza Apr. 29
Sacramento – Briar Patch at Loehmann’s Plaza, the area’s newest destination location for premium cigar and pipe smokers, will celebrate the grand opening of its exclusive Diamond Crown Lounge on Thursday, April 29. Loehmann’s Plaza is located at 2529 Fair Oaks Blvd in Sacramento, California.

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Grand Opening of Diamond Crown Lounge at Briar Patch Loehmann’s Plaza Apr. 29
Briar Patch at Loehmann’s Plaza, the area’s newest destination location for premium cigar and pipe smokers, will celebrate the grand opening of its exclusive Diamond Crown Lounge on Thursday, April 29. Loehmann’s Plaza is located at 2529 Fair Oaks Blvd in Sacramento, California. (PRWeb Apr 20, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/Briarpatch/prweb3896674 …

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Pasadena Ceniza Cigar Lounge is One of Few US Shops Offering the Uncut Graycliff Chateau Grand Cru Cigar

Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) October 23, 2006

Ceniza Cigar Lounge opened in Old Town Pasadena California in November of 2005, and as one of the few Los Angeles cigar shops, has quickly earned an excellent reputation for offering the finest selection of domestic and imported cigars, cigarettes, pipes, lighters, cigar humidors, coffee and other tobacconist accessories. The ultimate destination for cigars, pipes, coffee and a smoke with friends, Ceniza Cigar Lounge is one of California’s largest cigar retail stores, offering customers a wide variety in merchandise, along with private lockers, a friendly, knowledgeable staff and plenty of room to watch TV on three large LDC monitors.

Ceniza is also one of the very few cigar stores in the United States offering the hard to find Graycliff Chateau Gran Cru uncut cigars. A medium to full bodied delight that’s deep in smooth, earthy flavors and a floral sweetness, the brand is available in a gorgeous ‘Salomon’ figurado size that maximizes flavor via a super-slow, cool burn. Graycliff cigars were noted as one of the best new cigars by attendees of the 2005 Retail Tobacco Dealers Association trade show who compared its deep, seductive tobacco flavor to premium Cuban cigars of yesteryear. Donned in two purple bands, the cigars are handmade with the most select, long-filler aged tobaccos from Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Zimbabwean leaf. This full-bodied, well-balanced cigar offers complex flavor, and just enough power to satisfy experienced cigar smokers who enjoy a very rich-tasting smoke.

Co-owned by C. Mario Jaramillo, Gary Guseinov, A. Han, and various other investors, the Ceniza Cigar Lounge offers locals and Pasadena visitors a large, comfortable and savvy environment to choose and enjoy the finest tobaccos and smoking accessories.

“We pluming ourselves in carrying the best cigars, and in offering a relaxing place for tobacconists to gather,” said co-owner Mario Jaramillo. “The Graycliffs are one of the most popular branding we are carrying at this time.”

Ceniza’s selection of alright cigars include numerous well known brands including the Padron Anniversary 1926 and 1964 Series, the Fuente Opus X, CAO’s Sopranos, the new Oliva Series’, AVO 80′s and Rocky Patel Vintage 1990-92 along with many more. The choice in cigars ranges from mild to full corporal, and subtle to exotic in aroma and flavors, at a variety of just market prices for gratifying smoking, in a wide variety of fruit, spice and wood fragrances.

About The Ceniza Lounge

The Ceniza Cigar Lounge in Old Town Pasadena California offers the finest selection of domestic and imported cigars, cigarettes, pipes, lighters, humidors, coffee and other tobacconist accessories. With 2,500 square feet of space, Ceniza has a state of the art ventilation system, that vacuums smoke out eight times a hour and brings in fresh air constantly. The private “Preferido Lounge” provides a VIP atmosphere for locker members with comfortable Italian leather sofas, a 56 inch TV, copy and fax machine, as well as wireless Internet addrest. Private cigar tasting dinners are held for Preferido Lounge members along with many other perks. The ultimate destination for a smoke with a special friend, a meeting or social event, there are 72 private lockers, a friendly, knowledgeable man and plenty of room to watch TV on three LDC monitored.

The Ceniza Lounge is located in the Paseo Colorado Shopping Center, across the street from the Pasadena Convention Center and minutes from major hotels such as the Sheraton and the Ritz Carlton, and city hall. You’ll find Ceniza on the second level across from P.F. Changs and Bodega wine bar, next to Porto Alegre Brazillian BBQ. Open Sunday through Thursday, 11 – 12a.m., and Friday and Saturday 11 – 1 a.m. Visit http://www.cenizalounge.com or call 626.795.4664.

Contacts:

Tony Dzhordzhalyan, Ceniza Cigar Lounge

General Manager

Ceniza Cigar Lounge

260 E. Colorado Blvd. #225

Pasadena, CA 91101

(626) 796-7077;

Cell (323)842-5980

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Smoking a cigar is an enduring pleasure that the cigarettes do not provide. In fact, branded and quality cigars are believed to be the status symbol that showcases your wealth and class. They come in a variety of flavors and brands to cater the tastes of different people. Put simply, smoking a cigar has long been a popular way to portray an air of high-status, especially in business deals to confirm your dominant status.

The history of a cigar

Researchers teach us that the cigar has been in use for more than five hundred years. According to history, records show that citizens of Europe were much more unaware of tobacco before Columbus’s grand trip of 1492. However, the original native population of the islands in the Caribbean and the rest of North America started the use of cigars. Since then, cigar smoking has generated a lot of interest and passion in the United States as well as European countries.

Types of cigars: choose according to your taste

Different people have different favorite types of cigars. Many cigars have their own unique specialty they have gained favor by aficionados globally. Cigars offer a number of options to choose from but only a handful boast global recognition. Some of these include Gurkha Cigars, Macanudo Cigars, Cohiba Cigars, Padron Cigars, Acid Cigars, Ashton Cigars, Arturo Fuente Cigars, Montecristo Cigars and the list goes on. Basically, every cigar has three parts – the filler, the binder and the wrapper.

Storage of cigars

As mentioned above, cigar smoking is an enduring pleasure that comes with a fresh and fine cigar. But it is a fact that cigars are very fragile and need special storage as well as an environment of sufficient humidity to keep the cigar tobacco fresh and tasty. This is why a good quality humidor is essential to keep cigars fresh and classy by keeping them away from a number of problems like harsh taste, a broken wrapper, fast burn, tobacco beetle infestation and difficulty in lighting. Put simply, a good quality cigar humidor keeps cigars in an environment of ideal humidity because an ideal humidity of around 55 to 70 percent is required to remain the tobacco fresh.

Buy your favorite cigars online

The availability of premium branded cigars at online stores at reasonable prices has also increased the popularity of cigars. One of the interesting factors about purchasing cigars online is that you don’t have to worry about the delicate nature of cigars. Moreover, these online stores accept all types of payment options like Paypal and credit cards and also deliver them to your doorstep as quickly as overnight if you desire.

Cigar to smokers is just as golf clubs to golfers?Those fine, dark, leafy odors seem to permeate your every pore whenever you step into a cigar store. Although cigar is not good to health, so many people like cigar, when you smoke you are cool.(hi guys,i bought cheap golf clubs,Titleist AP2 Irons just cost $329.99,you may try.)

Do you know how long is the longest cigar in the world?

Wallace and Margarita Reyes have been rolling cigars for many, many years.  Wallace is actually a Grand Master cigar roller of which only three exist in the world.  He’s been rolling cigars since he was 12 when he was taught by his father.

In 2001 Wallace and Margarita had actually rolled a cigar that was 101 feet long and so he was already prepared for the stresses and strains of what lay ahead.  But first a brief congratulations of his aforementioned past record.

The Guinness World Record for hand-rolling the longest cigar in the world has been held by individuals or teams in only three places: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States.  the record Wallace and Margarita aimed to break was held by Cuban Jose Castelar Cairo who in May 2008 in Havana had rolled a cigar 148 ft 11 in long.

To roll the world’s longest cigar Wallace and Margarita had purchased around 140 lb of Ecuadorean tobacco which cost approximately $4,500.  They had pre-rolled the cigar into sections each measuring roughly 10 ft with a 64 ring gauge and this process had taken 104 hours.  The plan was on the day to roll all 18 sections together.

At the appointed hour (which for the Reyes was 4 am on Saturday November 21st 2009) they stepped into a tent which was built to act as a giant humidor and started rolling.

And on it went, minute by minute, hour after hour, the rolling of the longest cigar in the world was a total labor of love for these guys.  they actually ended up with a cigar measuring 196 feet 3 3/8 inches!!!

Congratulations to Wallace and Margarita Reyes for setting a new Guinness World Record!!!  Ybor City is back in the Guinness World Records book!