Smokingy first cigar in over two decades. Bought this Rocky Patel NP Bold. It's nice but im not sure I want to join the club.
What Did You Smoke Today? Cigars.
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AJF New World Cameroon... I did nothing to deserve this wrapper disintegration (often times I do!). Hopefully the rest of my 5 pack performs better because I think the flavor is quite good and the price is right.
I've had similar things happen with other Cameroon cigars, but this was pretty extreme. It smoked pretty well, considering, and it really was quite good. But it detracts from the experience and gives me an anxiety case when there's something that catastrophic going on... Like I keep expecting it to become unsmokable.
Chop it up for a bowl maybe? There's a lot of cigar to salvaged there!
Was it a hot day? I had a Pepin Garcia Cuban Classic do that to me last summer. I took it out of my big cooler/humidor, which is in the 65 degree basement, out onto the 90+ degree deck for a relaxing smoke. Well, the thing basically exploded, I was still able to smoke it, but it was a mess!
Thanks to Kilgore Trout I bought a box of Jamie Garcia Especial Belicoso, for my Fathers Day. Thank you friend.
Happy Father's day my friend! Hope you enjoy them!
Warm for the Bay Area, but not too bad (~87). It had just arrived in the mail so it probably had gone through a lot of changing conditions in a short period of time, though. I also wonder if box-pressing has an effect. I have had problems with Cameroon Fuentes, but it seems less common and they tend to be round.
Room 101 Big Payback. The first couple I smoked were nutmeg bombs, this one, not so much.
Just smoked one of these (and still have another) last week. I’m a bit of a Cameroon connoisseur so I always pick one up if it’s new to me.
I liked that it was box pressed.. not common among Cameroons. I found the flavor to be lacking though. It wasn’t BAD, just one dimensional and rather bland.
A shame they tend to be fragile. Did yours dry out a bit?
Stars must not have been aligned this morning -- whether it was the cigars themselves, the palate, or the weather, who knows, but rejected 2 in a row. First the Chateau Fuente Maduro (I love the sungrown), which tasted charred and harsh without any of that Broadleaf earthy sweetness, and I tossed after a few minutes. Then a La Aurora 107 corona, which had a pleasant-enough aroma but a (sungrown) wrapper that tasted sour and peculiar in the mouth, and I tossed at the halfway point. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses.
Gonna have this Partagas „Super Partagas“ later.
Cut 5 acres of grass this morning with my zero turn, showered, took a nap, went on porch, nice North wind, smoked a Jaimie Garcia, then a H Upmann Vintage Belicoso Cameroon, had a conversion with myself about the direction of this Country, did not like the conversion, but Cigars were good.
Oliva G Churchill with a Sidecar on the....side.
So nice outside tonight I had to pull out a big gun, probably my favorite cigar not named Don Carlos.
Partagas Ramon y Ramon Fabuloso.
Partagas Ramon y Ramon Fabuloso.
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