Cigar smokers?

Apparently this is a touchy subject here, vinosnob. There was a cigar thread that I started here some time ago, but it seems to have been "dissapeared....."

PH

What happened to 'What are you smoking?'

I used to really like that one....

Always ready for a Romeo y Julieta Churchill

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What happened to 'What are you smoking?'

Zingasm hijacked it

Ew.... Don't use the words term "jack" and "Zingasm" in the same post....

PH

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Originally posted by vinosnob:
Who enjoys a good cigar?

I do.

me

AF Double Chateau with a sungrown wrapper tonight. Most excellent after a few bottles of wine with friends and dinner.

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Ew.... Don't use the words term "jack" and "Zingasm" in the same post....

PH

On very rare occasions, I love a cigar...the birth of my now 4 month old, perfectly beautiful grandaughter... when my very best friend came out in July from Tennessee as my houseguest... when we got home after moving my baby girl in August into her dorm at college...

As do I.

Can't stand the smell of it.

I love a good cigar, but very rarely smoke one.

I have been spoiled the last couple months with smoking Cohiba Robusto and Partagas Series D #4.

When i did smoke ashton vsg, series r robusto, monte 2 tubos habana.
I once read that there was something like 350 times more cohibas sold each year than made. While I think I might have had a few originals in the probably hundreds that I tried I always stayed away from stocking them.
Used to keep at least two humidors going, one for the cubans, one for the others.
For a mellow smoke I used to like p&G, la fontana and acid cigars.

La Gloria Serie R
AF Hemingway

Punch Rare Corojo with a Booker's Bourbon
Very nice

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Apparently this is a touchy subject here, vinosnob. There was a cigar thread that I started here some time ago, but it seems to have been "dissapeared....."

PH

That is very odd.

... and yes, I greatly enjoy a fine ciger!

Once or twice per year. Preferably with some Germain-Robin right after or during.

I just begain getting interested in cigars. I've found it to be a very entertaining hobby, with a lot of similaries to wine.

a Fuente Double Chateau with sun grown wrapper for today.

Opus X for after the big dinner tomorrow...

Ashton cabinett reserve Conn Shade Grown wraper tonight. Hard to look busy to your staff when you are smoking a fat cigar and sipping brandy behind your desk.

I average 10 cigars/week.

My favorite is the La Flor Dominicana Ligero L500 with the Oscuro Natural wrapper. Frickin awesome!

But I've gotta have at least 3-4 hours between a cigar and wine or my palate is toasted.

in the last few months ive enjoyed a cigar on the course of the first times, lazy rounds with good weather & good company...

1st time actually my partner wasnt doing well, and he tries to right the ship on the back 9... well, by #10 tee the cart girl pulls up and im like, i'll have a cigar & 2 shots, me Jack, him Grey Goose... no stogies on the cart so the girl drives up to the clubhouse and back and brings me a Macanudo... i light it up, we finish the hole, get to #11 and just as we're saying cheers a marshall drives up... "look at you two guys..." he says with a laugh... it was a very relaxing, enjoyable back 9 from there...

other time i grabbed a Monte Cristo @ the pro shop and sat out on the patio and proceeded to go through 4 Crown & 7's while i puffed away at about 3:00-4:30 pm... could not complain at all

Could I store cigars in my wine cellar at 57 degrees?

I came across the mention of pre-ban Cubans being legal, in another thread and thought I'd ask what seems to me to be an obvious question. Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not a smoker.
So why would anyone have/smoke a 50 year old cigar? Unlike wine, and even under the best of storage conditions, I can't imagine one tasting anything other than sawdust or composte by now.

Maybe you can get James Suckling to chime in here, because he is a cigar nut. I've had some aged Cigars over the years (never as old as pre-embargo, though), and I can tell you that, like a good wine, properly stored cigars will develop with age. They tend to mellow and devleop a richer flavor over time.

I really enjoyed the Nording's I smoked the other night. They have pipe tobacco in them and are fairly mild. Great flavors, though.

Perhaps I've missed it but I think it may have been deleted. I remember having a discussion about where to buy Cubans reliably. PH, I think you listed a website that you have used. I am particularly interested in Limited edition Cohibas. I have some big celebrating to do soon and would appreciate some advice.

Not PH, but here's the site he so graciously provided a link to.

Sorry I missed the request, Curt! Thanks KSC!

PH

In Windsor, ON on business earlier today. Couldn't resist picking up a couple for the weekend:

Romeo y Julieta Churchill
Romeo y Julieta Escudos Edición Limitada 2007

Convenient for purchase however, at $30 per, almost twice the price of PH's site.

YIKES! I just realized this purchase has made me "lawless and amoral".

Romeo y Julieta Escudos Edición Limitada 2007

Very nice with a Blantons Bourbon. A long, rich, full bodied smoke. The mildly spicey flavors paired well with the drink. An enjoyable complexity of taste throughout.

Romeo y Julieta Churchill

A powerful, yet creamy smoothe smoke. Leather, nuts, mild spice and floral. A continuously evolving smoke throughout. Never a disappointment. Life is always good when smoking a RyJ Churchill.

Today on the driving range, Montecristo #2 Habana.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Today on the driving range, Montecristo #2 Habana.

Wonderful cigar isn't it? Had one last month...sadly I only brought one back from the Caribbean.

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Originally posted by Chilepepper:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Today on the driving range, Montecristo #2 Habana.

Wonderful cigar isn't it? Had one last month...sadly I only brought one back from the Caribbean.

Indeed Chile.

I brought a box back from our trip to Europe in November, and gave 12 to a friend.

A buddy and I picked up and smoked a pre-embargo Cuban in Hilton Head over the summer from our regular reputable cigar shop. I wouldn't call myself an aficionado, but I do enjoy a good stogie.

It certainly didn't taste like sawdust or compost. It was full of flavor and a very manly smoke, but there is a funny story.

We had been at the beach all day with the wives. We followed up the day back at the house with a big dinner, followed by a 20-yr old Tawny and the cubans. We were both enjoying them immensly with our feet up on the patio table commenting on how unbelievable the cigar was. About halfway through the cigar, almost simultaneously each got up, I went to my bedroom and threw up trying to clear the head spinning. He did the same. Neither of us made mention to the wives on where we were going, I rallied for about 10 more minutes before retiring for the night. He never came back. All I can say is GREAT CIGAR !!

FWIW, I'm an Arturo Fuente guy.
I just celebrated my son's birth with a 2004 Fuente Opus X Forbidden X.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Today on the driving range, Montecristo #2 Habana.

Another Habana Classic. Nice

This afternoon:

Arturo Fuente Double Chateau Maduro

Not bad, but just 'unsatisfying' after the previous two. Not near the complexity of wrapped, intertwined flavors.

A wonderful sunny day in Dallas in the low 60's.

On the patio, Romeo Y Juliet Reserva Real

Long drive from Toronto to Cincinnati: Montecristo #2

Longer drive from Cincinnati to Montreal: RyJ Churchill

Waiting in the wings for the right drink and moment:
Cohiba Siglio VI