What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

[Chieftiabo]

Smoking through this box has been an interesting experience, always getting different flavor profiles, only one being slightly mediocre. I’ll get dry white wine and a lovely intense minerality on one, toasty graham cracker and honey on the other, and now this one has been a very syrupy texture with stewed apple and baking spice.

I think Honduran tobacco can be very elegant, rich and nuanced based on your particular palate that day, or just dry and flavorless for which it seems like I know a lot of people that experience that side. That said I always seem to be entranced by the Honduran goodness and can totally see why they are often compared as the closest thing to Cuban tobacco.

So it’s no surprise this is my favorite Plasencia, being the one Honduran puro. This is a box from a year and a half ago and unfortunately I’ve heard from people who picked up a box this year that they are extremely foul, and smell like bad barnyard in the box, people have been chucking them before they even get halfway through , so I don’t know what’s going on there, I thought these were all one crop year, and what they had they had. So I’ve been put off on acquiring more, which is a bummer because this right now is smoking about as good as you could ever ask for.

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In my experiences cigars are as subject to environmental conditions as wines. Certain batches/ vintages are just better. Same seed, same processing, but sometimes everything is just right in the world.

 

[starrynight]

Tonight is a ceegar. Tatajue monster 2025 mummy redux5. A true Churchill with a Criollo wrapper and having just lit it I can say already that it may well be the most delicious non Cuban stick I’ve ever had. W0WView attachment 430228View attachment 430229

Tatuaje was my first cigar (Havana 6 torpedo) that had that umami savoriness that I just couldn’t put down.

That stick looks amazing!

 

[BenMN]

My buddy gave me what I'm pretty sure was a Siglo IV, although it felt a touch bigger than 46


A good smoke but I will not be smuggling any in for $90

Later, Joya Cuatro Cinco PC


What a nice little smoke. A touch tight, I gave it 1 tentative perfectdraw twist-pull, then a second, and we're good.
In addition to typical Nicaragua flavors and cask wood there were unique apple-y sweet fruit and a fermented quality that reminded me of the Perique in Kajun Kake. Really nice. 7 months on these

*and a couple months on the Cohiba in my low RH box

 

[Revnatorade C.P.G.]

 

[BenMN]

Last Call

 

[Chieftiabo]

Tonight trying the Caldwell Maduro Long Live the King
"Mad Mofo" & a DAB

 

[cshubhra]

Earlier I smoked a Gurkha 125th Anniversary.

After I put in bad reviews of Gurkha here, they are now better behaved Effort well spent

 

[Revnatorade C.P.G.]

Birthday cigar.

 

[JoeW]

Birthday cigar.
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Happy birthday!

 

[Chieftiabo]

Birthday cigar.
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That is a perfect stick for celebrating.
Happy Birthday!

 

[/Adam\]

I just happen to be firing up a Fuente too. Albeit not an OpusX but a Fuente. Which just so happens to be my first AF to date. Happy smokes guys.

 

[/Adam\]

Birthday cigar.
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Happy Birthday my friend?

 

[BenMN]

Birthday cigar.
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Happy Birthday!!

Is that the xXx?

Last Call for me today

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Birthday cigar.
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Happy birthday!

 

[cshubhra]

Happy birthday @Revnatorade C.P.G. !

 

[cshubhra]

Two cigar day

After lunch I smoked a Rocky Patel Number 6

Now smoking an Oliva Round - Supposedly second of Melanio

 

[CPT]

Padron Friday. A Family Reserve 45 with a cappuccino at my cigar lounge. Padron Family Reserve--so much more than a breakfast cigar!

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Now trying a new-to-me cigar, a Caldwell long live the queen queen’s crest Maduro. Drinking the rare second Americano of the day, a special Friday treat that really shows my heart who is the boss around here!

 

[cshubhra]

Earlier I smoked a Bellas Artes

 

[jttnk]

I am really enjoying the DBL (Dominican Big Leaguer) Formula. lots of sweet spice, not any real pepper,good body, flavor, but not too strong.