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GOURMET

Casa Turrent Cigars

For Aficionados Only

A lejandro Turrent wanted to fortunate that in San Andrés, Veracruz, we can cent Sumatra and Habano.
make a decent, top-notch plant many types of tobacco since the soil does The complexity that surrounds each one of
cigar, or “puro” as termed by not affect the flavor of the leaves perceptibly.” Casa Turrent’s cigars is unique. The premium
aficionados. The secret was The Turrent family is not only the largest series 1901 was rated 94 by Cigar aficionado
found in hundreds of tobacco “pilones” and in producer of tobacco in Mexico but also the and 91 by the Cigar Journal.
his family’s extensive knowledge but it was not most important exporter of Mexican tobacco. casaturrent.com
until he understood that the land of Mexico They cultivate three types of tobacco including
was his main ingredient. Don Alberto Turrent, Black San Andrés which is made of over 50 per
Alejandro’s father, has always said, “We are very

Louis XIII
Le Mathusalem

- Establishing a new precedent in the
history of this legendary Cognac -

S old at Harrods The superb cognac with notes
for just over 77 of myrrh, honey, immortelle,
thousand U.S. plum, honeysuckle and leather
dollars, the Louis is enclosed in a luxurious
XIII Cognac from Rémy display chest, featuring eight
Martin is the first of its kind crystal glasses, a serving
since the cognac’s inception in platter and a pipette in honor
1874 presented in a bespoke of the ancestral tasting and
mathusalem La Maison serving rituals of the cellar
Baccarat crystal decanter. masters.

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