A welcome along to 2018 everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas and New Year and that we got your orders processed and delivered in time for the vast majority of you. I appreciate your overwhelming understanding that it is a crazy time of year for logistics, weather and general stress for all, and if we were not able to meet your expectations please do drop us a note on [email protected], we always want to rectify any ill feeling and we aim to get 100% of our clients satisfied and believing in us. A busy few weeks for everyone, in our cigar world, and things Cuban, we have a new US President who threatens to undo some of the positives achieved under Obama. We will monitor how this goes regarding the possibility of bringing down the embargo. My feeling was a Hilary Presidency would look to bring that down, under a Trump and a Republican Congress, this looks far from likely. On the cigar front, Cubans are more popular than ever, with expected record sales to be announced at the Habanos Festival coming up in February. This does lead to problems and you may have noticed the lack of firm favourites in the Cohiba range as well as other highly popular cigars. This is the first year we have not had the stock to be able to offer everything to everyone. We take a lot of pride in both our service and also the stock we offer and we will continue to do everything we can to get that stock available for our hard working clients globally. All the best for 2017 and keep an eye out for the next round of deals! David and the Top Team
