What Cigar are You Smoking? - 2022
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It was REALLY enjoyable. I'm considering buying a box of 10.
It's beautiful outside today. I'm sitting on the front porch. @Ag®o inspired me to light up a '90s Cuban Bolivar Petite Corona, 5.5" x 42 gauge.
'16 RyJ Churchill after a long day planting root crops and perennials. The cherry and floral notes over the chocolate on this cigar are insane!
One of my favorites. If you like this profile try the Murcielago, by Espinosa.
Just started a Montecristo White Series Toro. This is soooo good.
Gurkha Centurian during our first real spring shower.
I'm turning in early tonight so I went ahead and lit this Rocky Patel Fifteenth Anniversary for a nightcap, with a Voodoo Ranger Juice Force IPA.
I'm still newbie but I feel Rocky Patel, and to a lesser extent Gurkha, are not very popular in these parts. I've found Rocky's to be very quality, second to Oliva in my thusfar limited experience.
Edit: right after posting this, I went to take the bands off. During my most recent visit to my local, I was passive aggressively harangued by old-timers for keeping the bands on my Centurian. My logic was that the GA can get on the wrapper, so you want to heat it up first to be safe. De-band at the last moment. Well my elders got in my head. I just took the bands off my cigar and seperated a singnificant flap of wrapper in the middle of the barrel. It's saveable, but my allegiance is now solidified. I disband when the fire leaves me no choice.
I'm still newbie but I feel Rocky Patel, and to a lesser extent Gurkha, are not very popular in these parts. I've found Rocky's to be very quality, second to Oliva in my thusfar limited experience.
Edit: right after posting this, I went to take the bands off. During my most recent visit to my local, I was passive aggressively harangued by old-timers for keeping the bands on my Centurian. My logic was that the GA can get on the wrapper, so you want to heat it up first to be safe. De-band at the last moment. Well my elders got in my head. I just took the bands off my cigar and seperated a singnificant flap of wrapper in the middle of the barrel. It's saveable, but my allegiance is now solidified. I disband when the fire leaves me no choice.
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Perdomo 20th with last night’s roast of Mexican Altos de Chiapas
My biggest issue with both of the brand’s is there business model and marketing scam. Over the years I have had one Gurkha that I would call good, the rest were mediocre at best and none of em were worth more than $4 Tops. RP has several blends that I like and used to smoke regularly, but then Nish took over the marketing aspect of the company, in my opinion he is such a D-bag that I won’t give them my business anymore. There’s literally hundreds of cigars that are generally much better.
As for the bands, I always remove it before I light up, I just can’t bring myself to light one with a band on it. That’s my preference, smoke yours however You see fit.
I can’t remember the last time I damaged a wrapper, just takes practice. You can hold your thumb on the seam for a minute and it will soften the glue.
I'm not much for flavored cigars but I've gotta smoke a Fat Bottom Betty before the damn thing flavors any other tobacco in my possession. I've been good about keeping it out of the humidor and keeping it in a travel humidor but i fear it will ghost that damn thing too!
It will. Sent a good friend a box of Cubans maybe 4 years ago and he called me in a panic several months later - the dipshit had put a couple of those Drew Estate Dark Fired cigars in the same humidor and all of the vintage Cubans had taken on the aroma. Last we talked, he could still smell faint traces of the dark fire in the humidor. Hopefully your travel humidor is plastic, in which case you can wipe down the inside with grain alcohol and air it out.
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