Today the entire city was wearing green in celebration of St. Patrick's day! It was a gorgeous sunny day, and the aroma of cigars was everywhere. As I walked from the Columbus Circle store to the Madison Avenue store (and took a quick stop in at our sister store De La Concha on my way), I counted at least 20 people enjoying cigars while strolling the streets of midtown and watching the famous parade. It was refreshing to see people enjoying the day and enjoying a great cigar.

Last night we celebrated Avo Uvezian's 83rd Birthday. The man in white was in attendance and joined about 60 of his friends and fans for a fabulous dinner provided by Rothmann's steakhouse. For full coverage of the event and pictures, as well as a little more info on the cigar, visit my blog http://michaelherklots.blogspot.com. David Savona and Greg Mottola from Cigar Aficionado were also in attendance, and you can read about Dave's experiences on his blog http://www.cigaraficionado.com/. Finally, CigarTV was on hand filming the entire evening. Keep checking in to http://www.CigarTV.com for some video footage of the great event soon!

We smoked some great cigars last night! All AVO cigars of course. For those of you who missed it, here's the run down of what everyone enjoyed.

And, there are plenty of other events coming up as well! So stay tuned and I hope to see you at one soon!!!