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Win it: Bespoke Post’s “Churchill” Box

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Bespoke Post December 2013: “Churchill” – $45.00

For $45 per box, Bespoke Post will deliver to your door a “box of awesome” once a month. Inside you’ll find hand selected items curated for a guy like you. You can skip any box you want or cancel at any time.  Click here for more.

If your only experience with Cigars was one of smoking Phillies or Swisher Sweets over cheap beer and Golden Tee in college (what, that was a weekly event for you?), then it’s understandable if you’re hesitant to dive back into the world of cigars.

But that wasn’t really the world of cigars. This latest box of awesome from Bespoke Post on the other hand, sorta opens the door to that world. And for $45, it’s an awfully nice way to stick your foot down that rabbit hole without losing your shirt in the process.

The Churchill Box from Bespoke Post on Dappered.com

The obvious star of the box is the 4-Pack of cigars from the Dominican maker E.P. Carrillo. Ordered from mild to full-bodied, this is a starter set that you might want to make notes about for future reference. The cigars come sealed in “Boveda humipacks” to ensure freshness (sorry, had to crack it open for the photos) and would make for a nice way to spend an evening with some pals.

 

Ashtray/Weapon on Dappered.comThe Beastly Ash Tray / Candle Holder.

But the rest of the box holds its own and then some. The reclaimed wood ash-tray/candle holder is the size (and almost weight) of a friggin’ brick. And while looking a little country rustic, the wood is aged enough that it’ll fit in among any decor. It’s something to look at for sure.

 

Candle from Bespoke Post on Dappered.comOne of the better “masculine” smelling candles out there.

The candle smells terrific. Cigar smoke smells great… while you’re smoking, but in the cold light of the day after it’s not quite as fun. Even smoking outside can leave the room closest to the door with a little stink. Light this candle up and fill that space with a sandy, slightly sweet outdoorsy smell. Fresh but warm at the same time.

Final bits of the box are a Glenfiddich branded (sneaky advertising) cigar cutter, plus a 4-pack of slow-burning cedar lighting sticks. The point of those is to avoid poisoning your cigar with the smells of a lighter, and offer more flame time than a match.

This is one of the more impressive boxes Bespoke Post has ever produced. Not everyone smokes cigars, yet it still sold out awfully quick. And now that the box is here in hand, it’s fair to say that those who opted in made a solid choice. For those of us that opted out and wish we didn’t, well… still not going back to those Swisher Sweets.

Enter here to win This “Churchill” Box from Bespoke Post. One entry per person. Deadline for entry is 11:59 pm ET 12/18/13. Thanks again to Bespoke Post, and Good luck!

UPDATE: Congrats to Andrew M. who won the Churchill box from Bespoke Post.

Comments

  1. Just toss that boveda pack in some tupperware Joe. Itll last a few months until you select a winner. Nice sticks. They are worth the $45 alone.

  4. does this continue the trend of the “alternative” box not being the best one? I just received polished yesterday – very happy with it!!!

  12. Actually had a discussion about this earlier today. Yes. Indeed. But alcohol causes cancers as well. Found this paper on Cigar/Pipe/Cigarette mortality rates and found it interesting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1945937/?page=1

    I think there are some shades of grey here. I treat cigars like donuts. I have maybe 3-5 per year. But yeah, it sure as hell isn’t a box of vegetables. So point taken.

  14. I’ll listen to you on most fashion advice Joe but that paper is 45 years old and lots of things can cause a cancer cell to form (such as just breathing in city air or being in sunlight) but not all activities are equal.

  15. [troll shields up] Call me a philistine, but… there is nothing remotely “sexy” about smoking. Cigars, cigarettes or otherwise are gross, at least in my opinion. I have lost many family and friends to cancer, including lung cancer, from primary and second hand smoke. I know two people, currently living, with one lung each from having the other removed due to smoking and eventual cancer. Selling cigars as “sexy and fashionable” on this blog or on Bespoke Post with the image that you are Winston Churchill and one of history’s greatest leaders is just like selling the idea that smoking will make you manly and macho like Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man (god rest his soul… of lung cancer) .

    Thanks Bespoke, but I passed on this month’s box.

  16. 1969! Yep, did NOT catch that.

    Look, I’m not trying to offer advice. And I probably shouldn’t have responded. But I think there’s a lot of grey area here. One or two cigars a month doesn’t seem like it’d equal half a pack a day. I think there’s a ton of emotion attached to this kind of thing, one which I didn’t quite see coming. Not in the least.

  17. While I completely respect your opinion Anthony, I don’t think it’s quite so black and white. As someone who has never smoked a cigarette in his life, but has smoked the occasional cigar, I found this box to be, personally, quite well put together.

  19. Powered wigs were once in fashion too. Some things are best left to the past and on the heap of items that will never come back in style, bell bottoms, polyester patterned wide collars shirts etc… no matter how classy or well put together. I agree, it is pretty to look at, and I am almost sold on the whole “image”, but smoking in any form is a turnoff to me. If I see a handsome man at a bar light up ANYTHING he loses all points and enters the realm of NEgative Points along with Pauly Shore. If the smell is what makes it manly, there are pretty candles out there that do the job. I like the Bath and Body WOrks “boathouse” candle this year.

  20. I… don’t think your interpretation of what my opinion is on this box/issue is accurate. And I think many who have opted into this box (its sold out) might feel the same way as I do. So, bear with me.

    Smoking in a bar = no. Here’s why: it subjects others around you to your presence. And I’m big on not inflicting your existence onto others unless invited. Smoking is a private thing to me. And again, I’ve never smoked cigarettes. Ever.

    The few times a year I smoke a cigar, I do so on my back porch while reading a book. Maybe with friends over who might have one as well. Mrs. Dappered has one from time to time too. And it’s not really about being “manly”. It’s more about relaxing. Why is it relaxing? Beats me. But so is watching a campfire.

  21. I have to second the thought that I respect your opinion regarding smoking. My experience with generations of smokers in my family has been, thankfully, the opposite. No lung cancer to be found at all. In fact, those members of my family who did smoke for decades all lived into their late 70s, 80’s and 90’s. So I have trouble accepting the idea of a positive cause and effect.

    While I am thankful that lung cancer has missed my family, I would also say that as adults, we can make the decision whether or not to smoke. I’m quite frankly irritated that people are deciding on my behalf what is healthy and what isn’t, whether it’s smoking or eating foie gras, or drinking soda. In my opinion, the hyper-commercialization of alcohol in every aspect of our culture is a more serious problem.

  22. This is a good example of why Science doesn’t use anecdotes. Some things are facts whether we choose to acknowledge them or not, they are not “decided on”.

  23. Can science then explain why generations of people that smoke do not develop lung cancer? Or people that have never smoke and develop lung cancer?