After choosing your stogie, the next — and arguably most important — step is to light the cigar. It’s here, in the typically austere world of luxury cigars, that the real aficionados like to add a bit ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “My dad used to take me, in the ’70s, to the store when I used to visit London with him,” recalls Zaim Kamal, ...