This was a Small Club Corona, I'll have to try the bigger brother!
What Cigar are You Smoking? - 2022
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Sutliff Ready Rub Match in a Bones Poker and a diet coke
Nicaraguan overrun with Costa with yesterday’s roast of Papua New Guinea Sigri Kula
Upmann No. 2 with some Guatemalan coffee. Watching Warriors-Nugs after getting home...
Smoked this Balmoral Anejo XO yesterday. First third was a bit too much pepper, after that it settled down into some nice flavors.
Just lit up an Oliva O before I have to report in to work. The O and G are fantastic value cigars.
Warped Companion, looking forward to this smoke. Dat wrapper color!
Aladino Santi. Fabulous size in a great blend.
CAO Cameroon. Delightfully smooth and multifaceted, almost floral. A great final cigar for for the evening. Also enjoed a Drew Estates Factory Smokes Maduro, and an Aj Fernandez New World Connecticut 
Apostate The Liahona. This cigar uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper, a Mexican San Andrés binder and fillers from Paraguay and the Dominican Republic.
Can't say I've ever had a cigar with tobacco from Paraguay. Can you pick it out from the blend, and if so, what's it like? I'm a big fan of Peruvian tobacco, but it doesn't seem to be used often.
To my palate, it's a mild cigar but I'm struggling to come up with a matched flavor desciptor. It doesn't have much pepper, some of a pepto chalk. Midway there is a very slight bitters finish but not off putting to me. Very subtle transition towards the final 3rd. I may get a few more because it is different and I am intrigued enough to see how I feel about it on a different evening. Construction is really good, two inch ash that I intentionally knock off. Draw is perfect. Even burn line.
I picked the other two blends from these guys as well.
I picked the other two blends from these guys as well.
Yesterday was a nice weather day, smoked a San Lantano Robusto, then a Bolivar Confrida 554, both very pleasant, dry season here, watching neighbor fight a grass fire across the road, got it under control by smothering it with his tractor bucket, thought the fire department was gonna have to come out.
It's been a few years, but I remember the Small Club Corona being more similar to the Gigantes, than the Specially Selected. Gigantes and SCC are much better, IMO.
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