Winston Churchill???????????

Question

What brand of cigar did Winston Churchill smoke? Can anybody help?

Answer 1

As long as it was a good quality Cuban I don`t think he was particularly fussy, especially as the war drew on and they were hard to get. He was far fussier about his whisky.

Answer 2

Churchill's favorite brands were Romeo y Julieta and the now-defunct La Aroma de Cuba. He had a number of regular suppliers of Havanas who kept him well-stocked with cigars throughout his life, even during the prohibitive years of war.

Answer 3

Sir Winston, as he was later known, enjoyed many different types of cigars and was said to smoke approximately 10 cigars a day (or 250,000 during his lifetime). He was especially fond of large maduro cigars yet observers noted that he never seemed to smoke them more than halfway down.

CUBAN

Answer 4

http://www.cigaradvisor.com/qa.cfm?id=15

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,5,00.html

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=2

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=433

Q. From Maj. Gen. Ken Perkins (Celia Sandys's husband) in England comes a telephone request from Celia, lecturing in London on her grandfather: What commercial cigars and spirits did Sir Winston prefer?
A. Cigars: many were specially made up for him, bearing his name on the wrapper with no brand indicated. But his favorite commercial brands were Camacho and Romeo y Julieta, both Havanas, and therefore for the time being unavailable, legally, to denizens of the USA. (Wm. F. Buckley, Jr., speaker at the ICS 1995 Conference, wrote recently that the Dunhills he received from ICS were Churchill's favorites, earning an immediate e-mail riposte that the man from Dunhill was smoking something, likely not tobacco.)
Scotch: Johnny Walker Red. Churchill was a personal friend of Sir Alexander Walker, judging by a fine jacketed copy of INTO BATTLE inscribed to Walker, which we have just seen for sale. He apparently did not have much time for single malts.

Brandy: vintage Hine. An early issue of Finest Hour recalls that a London wine merchant, sent to appraise the cellar at Chartwell, pronounced it a "shambles," the only items of value being a large supply of vintage Pol Roger Champagne (regularly topped up by shipments from Madame Odette Pol-Roger in Epernay); the Hine brandy; and some bottles of chardonnay which Churchill had bottled with Hillaire Belloc and which WSC forbade anyone to touch. The merchant pronounced the chardonnay undrinkable, along with the rest of the cellar!

The editor asked General Perkins why Celia needed this cigar information. "Well, they're not for me, I don't smoke," he said. I replied, "In that case obviously they are for me, please tell her to strip them of their Cuban bands and send them in a plain brown wrapper." -RML

Answer 5

H. Upmann (cigar brand) later to be named after him "Sir Winstons"
check this pic out http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Stocki_hu_magnum50_1.jpg

Answer 6

Romeo y Julieta and L'Aroma de Cuba were his favourite brands - the latter is now defunct.

Answer 7

Corona Coronas.

Answer 8

white owl

Answer 9

castella

Answer 10

Havana's xxx