What Cigar are You Smoking? 2024

[pantsBoots]

Last Rafael Gonzalez PC from a '14 box. I've watched it and waited and tonight was the night. Pretty good, but as a self-described Cuban-Mareva-hound, this was never one of my favorites (I used to smoke 2-3 Upmann PC and a Monte no 4 per week, every week)

 

[samb]

Last Rafael Gonzalez PC from a '14 box. I've watched it and waited and tonight was the night. Pretty good, but as a self-described Cuban-Mareva-hound, this was never one of my favorites (I used to smoke 2-3 Upmann PC and a Monte no 4 per week, every week)
View attachment 337402

When I went through my Cuban cigar phase that was my favorite vitola. I really enjoyed monte 4’s when they weren’t plugged

 

[Speak Easy]

Espinosa E Doble for lunch. These have a little age on them and make for a good smoke. Medium-plus in body and flavors of sweet cedar, cabinet spices, baker's cocoa, freshly ground coffee, and a custard-like finish.

 

[danhester]

Fuente Magnum R52(?) or maybe 54 I dunno, Rosado Sun Grown.

View attachment 337133
What I can say for sure is that I love these, and bought a box of the R44 which are actually 47 gauge and are also the only ones in the series where the R(X) does not equal ring gauge but rather box count. Got it?

They're such great cigars. Really, the only Fuentes I like more is when you get a great Opus, but those are in a whole different league in terms of price, and aren't always so great.

Now that Fuente has a Nicaraguan factory, I'd love to see a version with Nicaraguan binder and filler, though I guess the San Cristobal Revelation uses a very similar wrapper, if not the exact same

 

[cshubhra]

Just finished a Padilla Reserva

 

[pantsBoots]

Now that Fuente has a Nicaraguan factory, I'd love to see a version with Nicaraguan binder and filler, though I guess the San Cristobal Revelation uses a very similar wrapper, if not the exact same

Ashton Symmetry (meh)
Fuente Rare Pink
Fuente Naked Kings

All use their Nicaraguan tobacco. I haven't heard they have a factory in Nicaragua. I know they have farms there now and I would assume warehouses/barns for processing and fermenting the pilóns.

Right before she quit, Liana Fuente did say that the Rare Pink is a preview of something to come in the future that would be more widely available. To date, I haven't heard any more about that project. I'm still waiting for the rerelease of the Hemingway Rosado (best Fuentes I've ever had), but that looks like it got derailed with the Rare Pink.

 

['olbuzzsaw]

Fuente Queen B. Happy Friday!

 

[dottlejockey]

Had an AF Flor Fina 8-5-8 Sungrown on the way back from Seattle today. This one had some years on it. Made a very enjoyable drive out of an otherwise dreary trek down a busy freeway on an overcast Washington afternoon.

 

[Grangerous]

FFOX - Destino Siglo. I love these. Every once in a while I get a pronounced banana bread note. This one has it.
View attachment 336894

There was a machine made cigar from Tampa, Florida years back called Black Arrows, By Rigoletto.

Rigoletto is still in business. Most popular cigar today is their Black Jacks.

But the Black Arrows are gone and were a favorite for the exact reason you described.. I always tasted Banana Bread. You brought back some fond memories.

On edit: After a search, they’re still around!

Different band and Handmade?

A drug store offering about 35 years ago. As the Black Jacks still are today, sold in packs of four.

 

[BenMN]

Dapper Desvalido Disla Robusto

From a sampler, I only have this one that's been boxed about 5 months. Incredibly good, definite re-buy.

Apparently one of those "undisclosed" blends

 

[JoeW]

Dapper Desvalido Disla Robusto
View attachment 337625
From a sampler, I only have this one that's been boxed about 5 months. Incredibly good, definite re-buy.

Apparently one of those "undisclosed" blends

I got one of those in a BL Luxuries blind buy in March. I’ll try it out this weekend.

 

[cshubhra]

Monte Christo by AJ Fernandez

 

[PipeWI]

Monte Christo by AJ Fernandez

View attachment 337634

What a beaut!

 

[BenMN]

I got one of those in a BL Luxuries blind buy in March. I’ll try it out this weekend.

That's where mine came from. 4-pack Dapper sampler thrown in with a box purchase of El Borracho Broadleaf

I hope yours smokes great. Wouldn't surprise me if our smokes were box mates back in Feb...

 

[cshubhra]

What a beaut!

Yes This is a beautiful cigar. Tastes exquisite as well

 

[JoeW]

That's where mine came from. 4-pack Dapper sampler thrown in with a box purchase of El Borracho Broadleaf

I hope yours smokes great. Wouldn't surprise me if our smokes were box mates back in Feb...

I got the DTT, Plasencia, and 50 for 100 blind buys for my birthday. The 50 for 100 cigars were mostly unfamiliar, and I'd never heard of this one before. Yesterday I handled it during the boring part of our daily team meeting, when I was looking for something else; now that you've mentioned it, I'm looking forward to giving it a try!

 

[PipeIT]

@JoeW

Congratulations!

 

[danhester]

Ashton Symmetry (meh)
Fuente Rare Pink
Fuente Naked Kings

All use their Nicaraguan tobacco. I haven't heard they have a factory in Nicaragua. I know they have farms there now and I would assume warehouses/barns for processing and fermenting the pilóns.

Right before she quit, Liana Fuente did say that the Rare Pink is a preview of something to come in the future that would be more widely available. To date, I haven't heard any more about that project. I'm still waiting for the rerelease of the Hemingway Rosado (best Fuentes I've ever had), but that looks like it got derailed with the Rare Pink.

I've had about 5 of the Rare Pinks, and 4 of the 5 were really good, and 1 was just OK and suffered from some construction issues. I think in all those cases there is only a bit of Nicaraguan leaf in the filler. If love to see that sensational Rosado wrapper over an all Nicaraguan blend.

 

[danhester]

The "new" EPC Sumatra. I put new in quotation marks because they've done so many re-brands of their non top shelf stuff, I don't know if it's really a new blend or just new packaging for the old regular EPC line. I wish I had a couple more to smoke, because I'm still not sure what I make of this one.

 

[JoeW]

@JoeW

Congratulations!

Thank you! It's a little cooler here than Hawaii, at least from October-June, but we enjoy it anyway