John B Hayes Tobacconist

The best shop in town! Every time I’m in Winchester I always stop in. The staff is very friendly and they are experts. They have a huge selection of cigars, pipe tobacco, and pipes. Their prices are great! They have a comfortable setting in their lounge, and the conversation is always fantastic! Five Stars any day!

the commodore is like none other

What a great place. My Dad was in visiting from New York and this place was his mecca. And he stocked up. And my Husband and I went back for ourselves to stock up on some nice evening cigars. I love a great cigar in the evening. I highly recommend if you are in the Olde Town Winchester Area you stop by and give them a look. You will not be disappointed by their friendly service and huge selection.

A dark, wet november night brought me to Winchester, VA & I found the John B Hayes Tobbaconist shop. I have smoked cigars off and on for years in multiple countries and multiple cities in the USA. I walked into the shop and knew at once that the selection and knowledge of the staff & it’s customers was diverse and extensive. The weeks that followed as a return customer I discovered that the shop is a place of real honest Virgina character with an impressive cast of characters from far and wide, young and old & experienced and inexperienced smokers. If you want a good smoke and a good time with that smoke there is a place for you to sit and enjoy an experience. The guys and gals wouldn’t have it any other way!

Drop in just to savor the smell, then be treated to warm and friendly service. Even if you are just looking and not familiar with pipes & cigars, their passion and love of their business is evident.

I had been in the shop several times but tonight was the first time I actually sat down and enjoyed the shop. We took our team to John B. Hayes to reward them with cigars and were blown away by how incredible the service was. He not only helped us pick out cigars, but we learned a lot about them in the process. The owner is very respectful, accommodating, professional and knows his line of work like the back of his hand.
I would recommend this tabaco shop above any other. It is a beautiful relaxing environment with very kind people and great conversation. Needless to say, we will be going back.

I went here about 4 times last week while visiting over the holidays. Every time I walked through the door, I was greeted with a friendly hello, even from other customer just chilling out smoking a cigar. I liked that. So I bought a few acid cigars and a really nice pipe that I’ve since smoked all the way down to Savannah.
The staff is super friendly and no pretentious cloud overhanging the place, like most cigar stores. No, the guy here will help you find what you need and initiates friendly conversation while you’re looking.
Great selection of cigars. Priced to sell.

Visited here today with the Hubs. Wow, was this guy knowledgeable! Answered our (many) questions, shared about the history of the store, etc. Not high pressure at all; you can tell that he loves what he does, and loves sharing what he knows about tobacco. Highly recommend.

Incredible shop run by great people. I stumbled across this little spot while researching Winchester before my husband and I visited for a weekend anniversary trip. I called JB Hayes Tobbaconist to see if they could set aside a few cigars as a surprise for my husband and they were incredibly helpful– recommending a couple of things and offering to package it all up as a gift for my husband and have it ready for our hotel valet to pick it up from across the street so it would be ready at our hotel as a surprise. How wonderful! It really helped kick off our weekend– my husband loved the cigars and we walked down to the shop to thank them and check the place out. We left with some other purchases as well– and everyone at the shop was so nice and helpful– again! Will be returning to this spot whenever we are back in Winchester.

Very friendly staff, nice selection of estate pipes. They always allow us to sit for a bit and have a smoke in their big leather chairs up front.

Awesome selection!
Matt was awesome to talk with and really helped me pick new cigars!

Any time I travel one of the first thing I look for in town is a good cigar store.
Large and inviting inside with hardwood flooring and big, comfy leather chairs this was my kind of place. All of the chairs are up front at a large store front window, so you can light up a good cigar, set back and watch the world go by. The sales staff was very helpful and friendly as well. They carry mostly the higher end cigars, which can get pricey, but with weekly specials you can find a good cigar in your price range. As Mark Twain said «the bad, cheap cigars are the ones for me» But any place you can sit back and smoke a cigar and strike up a conversation with fellow cigar smokers is ok in my book.

I have been to a majority of the cigar shops in the surrounding area, mostly in Loudoun county. I am 20, and very much enjoy my youthful swagger — however this tends to make cigar shop employees think I’m just like every other punk kid that walks in looking for a Davidoff. Truth is, I don’t know much about cigars, but I do know what I like. I probably have something around 100 cigars under my belt. Not bad. I also own 3 pipes which I very much enjoy. enough about my tobacco resumé.
John B. Hayes is the only shop I’ve spent time in, where I am treated as a true customer/​patron. All of the staff there are very knowledgeable and always more than willing to make a good suggestion. I work down the street from the shop, so I go there, buy a good smoke and take a load off after a hard shift.
A great feature about the shop is that it has high ceilings and nice hardwood floors — you can sit in one of the comfy leather chairs and not feel like you’re in a burning building.