UK Cigar Scene Magazine February Issue 2 | Page 27
CIGAR INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
Davidoff Dom Perignon
Ring Gauge 47 | Length 178mm (7”) | Factory name Julieta 2 | Parejo
Cuban Davidoff’s are one of those cigars which every cigar lover has on his ‘bucket list’. A taste
of a Cuban past now sadly gone. As Simon Chase mentioned in our recent video some of the
cigars were actually made at the famous El Laguito (Cohiba) factory.
Zino Davidoff was born in 1906, the son of
cigar merchants in Kiev. The family moved
to Geneva in 1911 where they opened a small
cigar shop. The family sent him to Latin
America after he finished school including a
2 year spell in Cuba. Zino returned to work
in his parent’s cigar business in neutral
Switzerland which flourished during the war
years.
In 1967 he was approached by Cuban Habano
specialists and asked him to create a brand
created in his own name. The cigars were to
be manufactured in the El Laguito factory
which had been created in 1966 to produce
cigars for Fidel Castro. The Dom Perignon
line was introduced in 1970.
(Information taken from An Illustrated
Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana
Cigars and reproduced with the permission
of the author)
Auction Analysis
Talking to London based cigar specialists
recently the feeling is that unless these cigars
come with a guarantee that they have been
stored by one or two very specialised cigar
stores since they were released it is likely
that they are near the end their best smoking
period.
While they remain a cigar which everyone
wants to have tried once it looks as though
prices have ‘topped out’ from recent auction
details:
June 2010 18 cigars £3,300
(£183 per cigar)
Nov 2010 Box of 25 mid 1980’s £6,000
(£240 per cigar)
July 2011
16 cigars mod 1980’s £4,600
(£287 per cigar)
Nov 2011
Box of 10 1988 £3,100
(£310 per cigar)
July 2012
Sealed box of 25 £4,000
(£160 per cigar)
Nov 2012
Box of 25 cigars (1984) £8,000
(£320 per cigar)
July 2013
Box of 4 cigars 1980’s £1,200
(£300 per cigar)
Nov 2013
Box of 25, 1985, £6,800
(£272 per cigar)
Box of 10 early 1980’s £3,500
(£350 per cigar)
Dec 2014
Box of 25 cigars , 1980’s, £4,500
(£180 per cigar)
Box of 10 cigars, early 1980’s, £2,300
(£230 per cigar)
Box of 10 cigars, 1978, £2,500
(£250 per cigar)
Pack of 4, 1980’s Pristine
Condition £1,050 (£262 per cigar)
Feb 2014
Box of 25 cigars, 1987, £4,960
(£198 per cigar)
Boxes of 10 cigars sold at between
£2 & £2,300 (£200 – £230 per cigar)
Note: prices shown are the hammer price and don’t include any buyer’s premiums or tax on those premiums.
Pictures courtesy of C.Gars Ltd
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