What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

[jamespowers]

Geez, I forgot to mention the cigar tasting we had at the house last friday. We tried some light faire.
A JR alternative for the box press Padron or Perdomo (I forget which), was quite good and easily as good as its brand name that it was claiming to be. The Rosa Cuba was another decent cigar from Nicaraguan American Tobacco S.A. in Esteli, Nicaragua. It was not as good as the knock off but it was decent with a little tougher draw. The Mr. B was a dog rcoket as far as I am concerned. It had a dark wrapper but the draw was bad enough for me to get out the ice pick and fix it---twice. :eusa_doh: Ther was another that I cannot remember the name but it was sort of mediocre so it doesn't need to be mentioned.
Saturday found me itching for the Partagas 8.9.8. It was quite a cigar. Perfect draw, smooth taste and a decent cloud of gray smoke emitted from me and it.
Sunday found me opening an Excaliber 1066. I suppose the Partagas ruined me for the 1066 but it was a decent cigar with a good draw and a well constructed cap. What disturbed me was how hot it got! :eusa_doh: Geez, I didn't realize they could heat up so much! [huh] So I smoked it carefully. Even so, the cigar started coming unraveled. The wrapper split and really started crumbling about three inches from the end. By that time I was over my friend's house and I just abandoned it to die out. It was a decent cigar if it would stay together.
So how was your weekend? :cool2:

 

[apipeguy]

FL, it's British Woods in a Pete St. Patrick's day! real nice.

 

[jamespowers]

Last night it was a Trinidad. Yes, I know it is unusual for me to hit the humidor every night for several days. However, I consider it preventative medicine. My wife and son came down with a flu last week and ever since I started having a cigar or two a day it has kept the flu away.

 

[indycop]

Sosa no. 4 and Top Cigar torpedo, my work cigars.

 

[RedPop4]

Nice weekends.
James, the JR Alternatives aren't really trying to be like the cigars they claim to be. It's all a marketing schtick, even Lew Rothman, president of JR Cigars will admit to it under duress. Of course, if you corner him, he'll start ranting and raving about how most cigar smokers smoke cheap cigars, and he takes care of them with the Alts.

He's done a lot for smokers, he held his prices and wouldn't add new customers during the Cigar Boom of the 1990s. But the Alts are just cheap cigars, that's all. They don't study the cigars they "alternate" they just call them that.

 

[jamespowers]

Nice weekends.
James, the JR Alternatives aren't really trying to be like the cigars they claim to be. It's all a marketing schtick, even Lew Rothman, president of JR Cigars will admit to it under duress. Of course, if you corner him, he'll start ranting and raving about how most cigar smokers smoke cheap cigars, and he takes care of them with the Alts.

He's done a lot for smokers, he held his prices and wouldn't add new customers during the Cigar Boom of the 1990s. But the Alts are just cheap cigars, that's all. They don't study the cigars they "alternate" they just call them that.

Well, they did pretty well on the first one I mentioned. If you smoked this one and I didn't tell you it was an alternative, You would not be able to tell it was a cheap cigar. Of course that is the first cigar of the Alternatives that I have felt this way about. The La Gloria alternative burns unevenly and has a poor draw but the ice pick and careful trimming/burning fix that.
Then again, I just ordered Some Montecristo No. 2, Petite Edmundos and Partagas Culebras. So my willingness to pay more for cigars might be sealed there.
I am not disparaging Rothman's cigars though. He has done right by me for many package deals he offers and opened up my choices by offering these deals. We just sat down and smoked a few cigars and rated them honestly. I suppose I wouldn't be very good for most cigar ratings as I can be brutally honest.
Oh and yesterday was a pipeful of Argosy Black. shhhhhhhh :cool2: :cheers1:

 

[RedPop4]

You'd fit right in with us.
I'm not looking to disparage Lew, either. He's a contributor at CW in the Smokin Post. There's a thread he's involved with this week. Of course there are many who "honk his bobo" which gets a touch tiresome after seeing it for so many years. Yet he's willing to slum with us and participate in discussions, and for that I admire him.

 

[jamespowers]

You'd fit right in with us.
I'm not looking to disparage Lew, either. He's a contributor at CW in the Smokin Post. There's a thread he's involved with this week. Of course there are many who "honk his bobo" which gets a touch tiresome after seeing it for so many years. Yet he's willing to slum with us and participate in discussions, and for that I admire him.

I am going to have to check out that forum of yours.
Bobo sounds like the name of a clown.

 

[Bull Moose]

Today's cigar was a Saint Luis Rey Reserva Especial Serie G No6 6x60.

Wonderfully full-bodied and balanced from the beginning to the nub.

 

[merkman]

Today I bummed a Winston ultralight , Marlboro red, and a Winston light.lol

 

[ortega76]

For Saint Patrick's Day

I had a CAO Eileen's Dream Petite Corona. The weather was in the 50's, sunny and breezy. I had the day off, so I enjoyed one on the short walk home from lunch. One ad copy describes the cigar as follows.

CAO Eileen's Dream is a combination of Irish Cream & white chocolate truffles. Superior Irish Whisky, frothed cream, and coconut milk composes CAO's Irish Cream. The delicacy of white chocolate truffles is a subtle mixture of hazelnut paste, white chocolate, ground almonds, cocoa, and vanilla extracts. This avalanche of flavours is infused into a cigar with grade one Cameroon wrapper and mild Dominican fillers to complete this five-star reverie. Relax in tranquility while savoring Eileen's Dream and let it lullaby you into a bed of green grass where Irish Eyes are smiling.

It's certainly a richly sweet smoke. I loved the first few minutes of it but tired of it toward the end- like a too large portion of dessert at the end of a seven course dinner. Still, it was good. I recommend buying a single or the ten of cigarillos. I think I'd have enjoyed this more with coffee or espresso.

 

[Delthayre]

And Englishman come by way of Cyprus or Syria

I've been indulging in another blend from Edleez, a local tobacconist, called Lord Chamberlain in my Butz-Choquin Balzac churchwarden pipe while reading a letter from a friend.

 

[jamespowers]

Introduced a friend to Partagas 8.9.8 lst night. Two more up in smoke.
We experimented and the darned cigar held an ash up to two inches long. Never had a cigar do that before. The Excaliber came close at about 1 1/2." I nubbed mine down to the point where I could not smoke it anymore due to the heat.
I think I ruined my friend's taste for cheaper cigars.

 

[RedPop4]

A toothpick is an acceptable device when "nubbing" a cigar.

 

[jamespowers]

A toothpick is an acceptable device when "nubbing" a cigar.

It was too far gone even for that. The smoke I was pulling from it was just too hot.
My friend chomps most of his cigars so he didn't get down as far as I did before it became too nasty to smoke.

 

[indycop]

Just had a CAO Brazilia in celebration of my red CAO ashtray coming in the mail today!!

 

[jamespowers]

Just had a CAO Brazilia in celebration of my red CAO ashtray coming in the mail today!!

You need to own stock in that company.

 

[indycop]

You need to own stock in that company.

I think they have hooked me:eusa_doh:
My absolute favorite cigar is by Sosa but since I only get them when I go to Orlando I end up hording them instead of smoking them...[huh]

 

[jamespowers]

I think they have hooked me:eusa_doh:

Gee, ya think?

My absolute favorite cigar is by Sosa but since I only get them when I go to Orlando I end up hording them instead of smoking them...[huh]

I know what you mean. There are a few that I hoard as well but not lately.

 

[indycop]

Ok to break the CAO pattern I had a Flor De Oliva torpedo. A nice $2 cigar