Berlin Cigar Journey Ride-a-Long

[Buck14]

A ? for my Cigar adventures in Berlin..

Just arrived at hotel in Berlin from Chicago - room isn’t ready yet - oh well...guess I’ll just fire up this HU2 from @inter4alia while I wait



Berlin tour continues at Krohan Bress - a very nice cigar lounge about 12 minutes walk from my hotel in NW Mitte neighborhood Punch RE 5th Avenue Preferidos.

(I’ll look up the year later I’m busy right now?)

Edit - Proprietor says that these were supposed to come out end 2017 or early 2018 but that they just got these this month (April 2019). They only have about 6 sticks left in the whole store. (They may be sold out by close business later today???)





2011 Sancho Panza Belicoso Easterfest Alexanderplatz Berlin accompanied by Berlin Pilsner 

[Buck14]

Part 2

Zigarren Herzog

Classic cigar lounge I believe in the Charlottenberg area of west side Berlin.

Only a handful of one type of regional offering - the Punch Preferidos 2018 (which are now gone??). They indicated that they just got this cigar in four days ago and are now completely sold out)??

Party Maduro No. 1 Oct 16 - nothing in the Habanos profile tastes like this one - spectacular (I might have to yank my box from Oz humi soon) 

[unclepauly25]

24 minutes ago, Buck14 said:

A ? for my Cigar adventures in Berlin..

Just arrived at hotel in Berlin from Chicago - room isn’t ready yet - oh well...guess I’ll just fire up this HU2 from @inter4alia while I wait



Berlin tour continues at Krohan Bress

Punch RE 5th Avenue Preferidos

(I’ll look up the year later I’m busy right now?)

Edit - Proprietor says that these were supposed to come out end 2017 or early 2018 but that they just got these this month (April 2019)





2011 Sancho Panza Belicoso Easterfest Alexanderplatz Berlin accompanied by Berlin Pilsner 

Go cubbies!

[madandana]

Thanks for the report. Looks cool.

[Buck14]

Part 3

La Casa Del Habano Berlin in the Savoy Hotel. Gorgeous setting a few tables out front and nice 4 top leather chairs and tables inside with a few seat bar.

Surprisingly sparse humidor and the only shop I’ve been to in Berlin so far without ANY REs at all - not one stick. LCDH? WTF? ?

 

Can you guess which drink I’m having?

Cohiba Especial - no idea what year I wasn’t allowed to touch the box?

Cough syrupy ?? - oh what I do for FoH!

[Hookmaker]

Don’t worry about the Preferidos, I think they’ll be around. I am not impressed by the first box, and there’s going to be 10k boxes. There’s always a run on the 5th. In the first days, - I think however the stampede will wear off soon?

[Buck14]

7 minutes ago, Hookmaker said:

Don’t worry about the Preferidos, I think they’ll be around. I am not impressed by the first box, and there’s going to be 10k boxes. There’s always a run on the 5th. In the first days, - I think however the stampede will wear off soon?

Thanks brother! I was able to secure some so I’m happy. I smoked one couple days ago and thought it had great potential but meed at least another 6 months to 1 year down 

[TheGipper]

7 hours ago, Buck14 said:

Cohiba Especial - no idea what year I wasn’t allowed to touch the box?

I see the LCDH Berlin's odd idea of what constitutes "customer service" hasn't changed since I was last there years ago.

[SignalJoe]

If you make it to LCDH Hamburg please beat the proprietor about the head and shoulders until he produces either a 50 Cab of PL Coronas or the $600 USD he owes me.  At this point I'm not too particular about which he chooses to part with.   

 

[Lotusguy]

If you make it to LCDH Hamburg please beat the proprietor about the head and shoulders until he produces either a 50 Cab of PL Coronas or the $600 USD he owes me.  At this point I'm not too particular about which he chooses to part with.   
 

Rotfl - what did you expect? I have been warning people publicly and privately about this crook for years.

[SignalJoe]

5 minutes ago, Lotusguy said:

Rotfl - what did you expect? I have been warning people publicly and privately about this crook for years.

I am aware.  I was given false hope as 3 friends ( also members of this forum) ordered and received theirs.  

[Buck14]

3 hours ago, SignalJoe said:

If you make it to LCDH Hamburg please beat the proprietor about the head and shoulders until he produces either a 50 Cab of PL Coronas or the $600 USD he owes me.  At this point I'm not too particular about which he chooses to part with.   

 

I’ve been extremely unimpressed with everyone of the handful of LCDHs I’ve visited excepting Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

Did not experience any scam / price gouging at the one in Berlin but very unfriendly and one of the worst stocked cigar lounges I’ve ever seen.

[Lotusguy]

I’ve been extremely unimpressed with everyone of the handful of LCDHs I’ve visited excepting Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.
Did not experience any scam / price gouging at the one in Berlin but very unfriendly and one of the worst stocked cigar lounges I’ve ever seen.

Check out Stuttgart, Leipzig, Munich, ... and you will change your mind.

[TheGipper]

Yeah, don't let the Berlin LCDH sway you from visiting the others.  Most are great.  Hamburg is run by a charlatan and thief, but at least in person you will be able to be very insistent about receiving cigars you paid for.

[Nino]

3 hours ago, Buck14 said:

I’ve been extremely unimpressed with everyone of the handful of LCDHs I’ve visited excepting Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

The only LCDH I'd strongly discourage people to buy from here in Germany would be Hamburg - don't get why anyone would still buy there..... Frankfurt is a close second as service is shitty to non-existant from my one and only experience there.

Never been to Berlin - nor care to.

If I am not allowed to "touch" a Cab or check the bottom markings I will bring my money somewhere else right away.

My favourite LCDH's here are Cologne, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken. Family run cozy affairs with great service and good attitude.

[bwgan]

Yeah Berlin LCDH at the Savoy is a joke for stock, looks like a Russian shop in the 80s, empty shelves. On the whole the service is pretty cold in all the cigar ships in Berlin.
As others have said, Peter Heinrich's in cologne is brilliant, lcdh Koblenz is very very friendly in a lovely town and selected cigars in Dusseldorf is good too. Crap experience with cigar world on line, but in person no complaints

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[Squarehead]

9 hours ago, Lotusguy said:

Check out Stuttgart, Leipzig, Munich, ... and you will change your mind.

I've been to the one in Stuttgart and was treated like a king.That was 3 years ago

[SokaKiel]

13 hours ago, SignalJoe said:

If you make it to LCDH Hamburg please beat the proprietor about the head and shoulders until he produces either a 50 Cab of PL Coronas or the $600 USD he owes me.  At this point I'm not too particular about which he chooses to part with.   

 

I have to second this opinion, took me many phone calls and eventually a not so friendly letter from the family lawyer in Germany until they refunded my money. And that’s a good 10 years ago now.

Used to go there regularly when I lived in Hamburg in the early 2000’s. In the shop and in Person it was always ok. But now I’m with Claus! Stay away as far as you can!

In Berlin I’ve always been treated very well at ‘Herzog am Hafen’. Even though it’s the same owner as the LCDH I’ve always received great service from the guys, either online or in the lounge.

[Akela3rd]

If you make it to LCDH Hamburg please beat the proprietor about the head and shoulders until he produces either a 50 Cab of PL Coronas or the $600 USD he owes me.  At this point I'm not too particular about which he chooses to part with.   
 

Took me two months to get my money back on a 50 cab of RG Perlas that never materialised. Used Google Translate to express myself in very strong terms in phrases that were beyond my basic German. It became quite a game and I learned to say things that would shock a 'Oma'.

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[Buck14]

Part 4

They have a fantastic old school department store in Berlin (KaWeDe) which reminds me of the old Marshall Fields in downtown Chicago (RIP). What a fantastic store! You can spend ALL your money in there really easily.

They have a little Davidoff-sponsored kiosk with a little walk-in humidor - was the only place in Berlin that I found a few PL RE 5th Ave Coronas. They also had a couple off boxes of Punch Preferidos RE 5th Ave as well.

 

[Buck14]

Part 5

There is a very nice liquor store in Berlin  called Delicious Berlin with a nice walk-in humidor in the back. The cigar area is called Stark Zigarren which confuses the hell out of me when trying to find it. Well worth the visit several boxing of the RE Punch Preferidos

They also had a 3 types of ANEJADOS: 

1. HDM Robustos 

2. Party Piramides 

3. Party Coronas Gordas

all from 2008 with that REVISADO stamp.

I have limited knowledge of the Anejados program other then what I’ve read on here and I’m terrified to throw any coin at it. But those Piramides looked incredible.