A quiet ritual,
finely kept.
For nine decades the Ashfield & Crown atelier on the Rue du Rhône has blended, aged and quietly sold the cigars and objects of an unhurried life.
From the house tables.
Three cigars we keep at hand, every week, in every season. The Signature opens the conversation; the Reserve closes it.
On keeping a humidor honest.
A cigar should travel through your humidor the way wine travels through a cellar — slowly, in cedar, undisturbed. We rebuild every humidor we sell from solid walnut and unfinished Spanish cedar, and calibrate it before it leaves the workshop. Seventy percent humidity. Always.
"A good box is the second cigar you buy. It should outlast the first hundred."
Objects for the ritual.
A small library of accessories chosen, made or commissioned by the house.
An hour, an espresso, a cigar.
Our first-floor tasting room is open by appointment. Four seats by the window, a small cellar of single malts, and whatever has just arrived from the Dominican.