With New Year’s just around the corner, The Beverly Hills Cigar Club has compiled its Top 5 Champagne and Cigar Pairings: ideal combinations for ringing in 2011.

BHCC’s pairings were formed by compiling a list of the highest rated champagnes, then selecting a top rated cigar that would complement the beverage.

Selections for both ranged through multiple price categories, ensuring, fairly surprisingly, this pleasurable combination is available for every budget.

Stephen Webster is one of the most celebrated jewellers worldwide. He has won four-times UK’s ‘Luxury Jeweller of the Year’ prize.

“Things have changed,” he says. “The fear factor, the reverence and the rather staid formality have all but disappeared.

Magazines now have fashion shoots featuring cheap H&M jeans worn with £5000 diamond rings.

Cigar aficionados who want the very best selection, the finest lines the market has to offer and personal treatment from their own cigar concierge might want to check out Beverly Hills Cigar Club, an exclusive online club that offers more than 800 product lines, house brands; premium accessories for the smoker; and two levels of private membership that provide members with free, hand-picked cigars

Lines carried by the BHCC include Montecristo, Opus X, Davidoff, La Aurora and Oliva, specialty brands like Bahia, Cao and Acid and many small independent, hard-to-find brands from the finest tobacco houses, worldwide.

The club stocks a wide selection of Maduro cigars as well as Connecticut and Rosado leaf product. All ring gauge sizes and styles can be found on the site.

Davidoff of Geneva has introduced a new brand of cigars called Winston Churchill.

Named after one of the world’s most notable cigar icons, the project was a collaboration between Churchill’s grandson Winston S. Churchill and Davidoff’s Henke Kelner.

The Winston Churchill is the only brand with full Cuban seed tobacco produced by Davidoff.