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A trip to Iwan Ries

Black Plague

Black Plague

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Getting out of work early today, and having recently moved to Chicago, I'd been told that the Iwan Ries smoke shop was one of the best cigar shops in town.

So I went over to Wabash Ave., walked up the stairs, following the smell of cedar and pipe smoke all the way, and went into one of Chicago's oldest and most respected tobacconists. Beautiful place up there, very old building, humidor cabinets lining the walls, and if you're a lover of the briar, you'd die if you saw the wall full of hundreds of different kinds of pipe tobacco.

The selection was awesome, including a humidor cabinet full of nothing but Davidoff....and another one where I made my big score!

I found the little corner where they stash the Pepin Garcia goods, and made off with a Petit Tatuaje, a Tatuaje Noella, Reserva J21, Reserva SW, RC184 (the last one left in the box!), and a Cabaigaun Belicoso Fino! :D An awesome selection of hard to find Tatuajes, including some of the Cojonus that I didn't pick up.

If you're in Chicago, definitely find your way over to Wabash between Madison and Monroe. It's kinda hidden, being tucked away over top a little food court mall with a lot of construction going on around it, but it's well worth the trip! (You can even buy off their website: Iwan Ries website)
 
Black Plague said:
Getting out of work early today, and having recently moved to Chicago, I'd been told that the Iwan Ries smoke shop was one of the best cigar shops in town.

So I went over to Wabash Ave., walked up the stairs, following the smell of cedar and pipe smoke all the way, and went into one of Chicago's oldest and most respected tobacconists. Beautiful place up there, very old building, humidor cabinets lining the walls, and if you're a lover of the briar, you'd die if you saw the wall full of hundreds of different kinds of pipe tobacco.

The selection was awesome, including a humidor cabinet full of nothing but Davidoff....and another one where I made my big score!

I found the little corner where they stash the Pepin Garcia goods, and made off with a Petit Tatuaje, a Tatuaje Noella, Reserva J21, Reserva SW, RC184 (the last one left in the box!), and a Cabaigaun Belicoso Fino! :D An awesome selection of hard to find Tatuajes, including some of the Cojonus that I didn't pick up.

If you're in Chicago, definitely find your way over to Wabash between Madison and Monroe. It's kinda hidden, being tucked away over top a little food court mall with a lot of construction going on around it, but it's well worth the trip! (You can even buy off their website: Iwan Ries website)
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Being that I go to school in Chicago, I visit this place often. Beautiful environment and an awesome selection. I loved it just as much!
 
Few things in our hobby (outside of the actual SMOKING) are as sweet as a good tat-haul!

Nice score.

Don't sit on that RC184 too long, they are too good not to smoke.
 
Doesn't seem too far from where I go to school. I guess I will have to check this place out when I'm not hitting the books.
 
I've visited Iwan Ries once or twice while in Chicago on business. What a classy shop, just old school comfortable. Knowledgeable folks too which is a plus.

Wilkey
 
Iwan Ries is the shop to go to when in Chicago. I lived in Chitown for 15 or so years before moving out here to the DC/VA area and stopped in after work at least 3 times a week just because it was on my way home. Always at msrp or less for everything and a great staff. I heard Tony wasn't there anymore but the other guys are great. Jack Schwartz is the other shop worth visiting but they were not open on the weekends, and the shop was smaller and on the other side of the loop from my travels home. Chitown has a lot of shops but many of them don't have the inventory, history and staff of the 2. Both places also are long time Fuente retailers and if one has Opus or Anejos, its always a good thing to travel across the loop to the other because they hit town at the same time (at least they did a few years ago). Oh yes and of course at MSRP. I've been lucky to relocate to a place where there is a shop which is equally as good (actually better :) ) than Ries with a rich history, and a "home" like atmosphere in a major city. G1
 
Lots of people told me Jack Schwartz was worth the visit, so I might hit that one up today after work.

And I was surprized that everything I bought at Iwan Ries was the same price as the MSRP that moki noted for the Tats on his website! :0
 
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