Have a request from my dad to bring him back some Swiss smoke cigars. He describes them as "Swiss smoke cigars that come in a pack of three .....cigars are very long and are twisted".

As anybody heard of these and know what the name is in German? I got some funny looks when I asked and not sure if it was my english or not

Maybe this company?

http://www.villiger.ch/

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they're aweful.

Never seen those before lol

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"Tosgani" maybe "Tosganelli" .Not sure if I spelled them right

Alas, there is no accounting for taste with my dad. I like to think he wants to play a trick on somebody, but he actually likes these.

A twisted cigar is called a culebra. Davidoff do them, and they're Swiss although cigars are normally identified by the provenance of the tobacco e.g Cuban rather than the domicile of the company.

I'll stick with my Cubans

Ok... the Villigers are the cheapest and possibly worst of that kind. This is not a Swiss invention, but a traditional cigar size "culebras". Any decent tobacco shop (for example the one at the beginning of Bahnhofstrasse) will have some better ones as well.

Toscani,Brissago ??

OK but for a lighter smoke, Davidoff is right up there.

Culebras were invented there...

" These crazy-looking cigars actually originated in the 19th century cigar factories to keep workers from stealing cigars. One culebra cigar was given to each employee who would usually unbind it to smoke separately throughout the day. By doing this the owners would know which employees were smoking their allotment and which were smoking the profits. "
http://www.cigaradvisor.com/education.cfm?id=5

Here you go:

Maybe your dad wants to keep the black-flies and mosquito's in check, back home

If you fly away for christmas, they sell them upstairs in Zürich Airport, terminal 1, A.

Doc.

As bad as these may be, it can't possibly be worse than muskol.

Er...Yeah, but was refering to sticking with my preferred cuban cigar. Should have been more specific.
Very informative though. Thx

Funny, until I was 8 years old I thought Cubans were a Quebecois thing since every place in Montreal seemed to sell Cuban cigars. Apparently they were popular with American tourists.

Someone should organise an EF cigar and whiskey evening.

They have a Cigar bar in Zug. Good selection of Whiskey as well. 1st one I've seen.

I'll sort this out in the new year... W sell Partagas Culebras for 69 FR a cigar not too sure that I'm man enough to smoke one... Its a long haul cigar

PM me if any one is interested in buying one our shop is in Luzern