Friday, 30 October 2026 · Malmö Free to read · 23 retailers · 228 live prices

The Next Cigar

The anthology of the leaf — Cuban cigars, the European market, and the things worth owning.

Vol. II · No. 10 Independent · Reader-supported · No tobacco sold here October 2026 · Published from Sweden

Markets · the board · Romeo y Julieta

Every listing · cheapest first

5 retailers

Pick a country to see what each box costs at your door.

RetailerBoxPer cigar
Turmeaus (sister to C.Gars) UK Habanos Specialist · live · 30 Oct £1,170≈ €1392 €55.69 Buy →
LCDH Brussel (Charlemagne) BE La Casa del Habano · checked 15 May €640.00≈ €640 €25.60 Check →
Cigarworld.de DE La Casa del Habano · checked 15 May €650.00≈ €650 €26.00 Check →
CigarOne CH Habanos Specialist · live · 30 Oct · sold out CHF 569.00≈ €597 €23.90 Buy →
EGM Cigars CH Habanos Specialist · live · 30 Oct · sold out CHF 806.21≈ €847 €33.86 Buy →

Rows in grey were last read more than 60 days ago: they are history, not quotes, and never count as the cheapest. Listed price for the box of 25 in the retailer's own currency, their own tax included. A box crossing a border picks up destination duty and VAT on top — the "duty paid EU" mark shows the few retailers whose price is all-in beyond their home market.

Ninety days · cheapest in-stock box in Europe, in euros

€1392 €620 14 Sept7 Oct30 Oct

Now €139290-day low €62090-day high €139247 readings

The piece

Romeo's robusto. The brand's most-popular Línea Clásica vitola in a 60-minute format with their signature creamy, floral profile.

The Short Churchills joined the Romeo y Julieta Línea Clásica in 2006 to compete with the Cohiba Robustos and Partagás Serie D No. 4 in the increasingly popular 5×50 robusto slot. It uses the same gentle, floral, cedar-forward Romeo blend as the brand's iconic Churchill — and the shorter, thicker format made it a runaway success. Today it's one of the best-selling Cuban robustos by box volume worldwide, and the tubo (aluminum-tubed) presentation is one of the most-shipped Cuban tubed cigars on the market.

The smoke is the gentlest of the major Cuban robustos. First third opens with butter, hay and a faint orange-blossom floral note; the middle drifts into Romeo's signature cedar-and-honey core; the last third delivers a creamy, slightly sweet finish that never gets harsh. Smoking time runs 55 to 70 minutes. The Short Churchills is also one of the price-spread-friendly Cuban robustos: Noblego runs around €625 per box of 25, LCDH Brussels €640, Switzerland's Cigarmust CHF 690 (~€720), Spain's regulated estancos slightly higher at €680. The 8 to 12 percent spread across European retailers is meaningful but not extreme — worth a comparison check, especially for the tubo box format where pricing varies more than the standard SLB.

Questions

  • Where is the cheapest place to buy Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills in Europe right now?

    The cheapest verified box of Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills in Europe right now is at Turmeaus (sister to C.Gars) in United Kingdom at approximately €1,392 for a box of 25 (about €55.68 per cigar). All 5 retailers we track for this vitola are in the table above, each with the date its price was read: rows marked live were re-read by our scraper within the last fortnight, the rest were checked by hand.

    Prices and stock move. Save a price alert and we email you when any retailer drops below your target or the box comes back in stock.

  • Will the listed price include duty + VAT for my country?

    Only if you live where the retailer is. Every price on this page is all-in (excise duty + VAT included) in the retailer's home country and nowhere else. Buy from a German retailer to a German address and what you see is what you pay. Buy across a border — a Swiss retailer shipping into the EU, or any EU retailer shipping to the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Ireland — and the destination country charges its own tobacco excise and VAT on arrival. How much depends on the destination's excise rate; our import-duty guide walks through the main markets.

    The few retailers whose price is all-in beyond their home market carry a "duty paid EU" mark in the table.

  • How does Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills compare to other Romeo y Julieta cigars?

    Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills is a Robusto, ring 50, 124 mm, medium strength, sold in a box of 25. The other Romeo y Julieta vitolas on the board, each with its own price page, are Romeo y Julieta Petit Coronas, Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchills, Romeo y Julieta Churchill, Romeo y Julieta No. 1 Tubos. Per-cigar price is the fair way to compare them: box sizes differ.

  • Is the price for Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills likely to drop?

    Habanos S.A. (the Cuban state tobacco monopoly) sets the worldwide release-price floor for every Habano in this catalogue. That floor went up roughly 40% during the 2022–2024 global price harmonisation, and Habanos has signalled further annual increases through 2027. So the long-term trend is up, not down.

    Short-term, prices move at the retailer level — promotions, clearance, a restock at a different price. Where we have a history, the 90-day line on this page shows what the cheapest box in Europe has actually done. A price alert with no target emails you on any drop; setting a target limits it to your budget.

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