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Never thought, that tequila could be paired with cigar.
But Tequila Jose Cuervo Black is something wonderful, really it's nice pair with cigar (Perdomo Lot 23 Maduro Punta Gorda).
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Good mercy you are in the cold country.Hows the fishing there. Try dealers in florida may get lucky with havanas:rock:
Really?
That's pretty cool!
Yea, the Montes are quickly becoming a favorite for me as well.
Mike
Looks like a nice stoogy:hmmm:
Montecristo C - Edición Limitada 2003.
It's a great, wonderful and very tasty cigar. Possibly, ten years of aging had a positive impact on flavor.
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That's awesome Alex!!
I decided to "slum" and work on another Casa Magna outside on the driveway while my kids painted Picasso's on it with their chalk.
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Up close
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Pan out to get a foot shot in there
What a great day!!
Oh and... you'll never see this mug in a photo again. I think I may have began to relax a bit too much lol.
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the horror!
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according to the best here's # two for the poor boy .
I've been "cleaning" out the doubles from my Humidor
Casa Magna Colorado Torito 4 3/4" x 60
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At 1/2" per 1/2 hour, it could be a late night :)
Mike
YEA, THAT WAS A LOT OF SMOKE !!!!
LOL
Mike
Romeo y Julieta Hermosos No.2 - Edición Limitada 2004.
Nice cigar with classical Cuban flavor.
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I hope that worked, I haven't uploaded direct from my phone before.
The rain finally stopped so i was going to have this la Rica no.4 this morning. unfortunately the wind really picked up and half an hour later the rain was back with a vengeance. I had to settle for smelling the unlit cigar. Outer wrapper smells of cedar, hay and a kind of rotten compost smell that I don't want to cal rotten because it's a really nice smell. The foot has more like a toasted nuts and milk chocolate aroma, with cedar and hay and maybe walnut. Hoping for better weather on Monday when I'll next have time for it.
Just had that la rica. I wasn't that impressed to be honest, especially since it wasn't the one I wanted when I ordered. Quite earthy in a minerally kind of way, almost metalic, bit of cinamon, dark chocolate or maybe cocoa. Tasted ok and got a bit spicier towards the end with a hint of white pepper, but didn't really develop much apart from that. Smelling it unlit was better than smoking it. It was a petit corona and I've heard a bigger ring guage allows for more flavour development. Is that correct?
I personally think that after about 52 ring, it starts going the other way. That's only based on my limited experience by the way, but I really like the figurado and torpedo shapes, it seems they gather a lot of flavor from the tapered roll. Again, its just from what I've been able to gather from what I've smoked.
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Mike
This was only 40 ring. So far the most complex and interesting tastes have been from the two robustos I've smoked. I had a chess maduro corona that was very nice but not all that complex. I ordered a chess maduro robusto, but looking at the size I think it's a short sublime and I'm pretty sure it's a 60 ring, so we'll see how that goes when we next get a break in the rain. I'm thinking I might find a decent tasting cigar and order one from each size and shape available to explore how it affects the flavours. I found a uk company to order from, so I should be able to do things a bit cheaper now. I got to try my new cutter at last, so this wasn't a wasted smoke.
In theory... The wrapper leaf presents the majority of the flavor. Hence, the smaller the ring gauge, the more flavor, flavor :)!
In theory anyway...
You can actually calculate the wrapper versus filler effect mathematically, and as the percentage of wrapper drops with larger ring gauges, so does the intensity of flavor. That's why Lanceros seem more intense and also why I avoid ring gauges beyond 54.
I'm smoking a Tatuaje Fausto now that probably has so much black pepper flavor that it probably doesn't matter, and I'm loving it. As you increase the ring size, what you get is more air and more dilution of flavor. For the guys who want milder smokes, big ring gauges are fine, and that is why they are all the rage now. Me, I like it as strong as I can get it.
The Fausto is wonderful!
Alec Bradley MAXX Connecticut Culture
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L'Atelier Surrogates Tramp Stamp.
Very nice cigars with great flavors. Highly recommend to try.
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Had a great Don Kiki Red.
Roger
Montecristo #4 again, these are just great tasty little cigars
:)
Mike
I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?
My Father Le Bijou 1922 Grand Robusto on the way into work this morning.
These have been in my regular rotation for a while now, always enjoyable.
A fair amount of coffee, with just an underlying hint of sweetness.
On a side note, I picked up a V-Cutter (Colibri) that it quite impressive. It carves a deep wide swath with clean edges that affords an aggressive draw.
I think my guillotine cutter will be strictly reserved for Torpedos/Belicosos/Figurados from now on.
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I wait till it's smoked down a bit and the adhesive softens so the band comes off easily.
I have had them pull the wrapper off before :banghead:
I am much more careful now :)
Mike
I think a rather interesting but expensive experiment would be to take a box of cigars, peel the wrapper off one and replace it with cigarette papers and smoke just filler. Then peel all the rest and roll a cigar of just wrapper leaves and smoke that to see the difference in flavour. I doubt anyone will ever do it.
From the beginning, for a long time I smoked "band off". But after a great number of bad experience with removing that band from unsmoked cigar. Now I smoke with band and remove it when need.Quote:
I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?
I miss smoking cigars, enjoy a good one for me gentlemen!
QUOTE=Ezekiel81;1314235]I think a rather interesting but expensive experiment would be to take a box of cigars, peel the wrapper off one and replace it with cigarette papers and smoke just filler. Then peel all the rest and roll a cigar of just wrapper leaves and smoke that to see the difference in flavour. I doubt anyone will ever do it.[/QUOTE]
I could do it no problem... but why? If one doesn't want a blend, smoke a pipe.
I think much of the pleasure of cigar smoking is the blends and how they take to the different ring gauges. It not like coffee snobs who get all up tight when you add cream - there is art behind "bastardizing" the leafs by blending in others to compliment lol.
:)
That's my two cents anyway.
Curiosity I guess. I think it would be interesting to see which flavours come from which bit of a cigar. I was also wondering what it would be like to eat one, but I'm not planning on doing that either. I think my brain just kind of works that way, I'm an inquisitive kind of chap. I'd love to taste whisky fresh from the still to see what flavours come from the cask and which are inherent in the spirit. I once spent a day brewing beer with a friend who does that and I got to taste the stuff at different stages. That was fascinating.
American Eagles robusto. 4 colors of wrapping. Comes with nice little travel humidor. They stay with my rocks in a special humidor.
Quesada Q D’etat Daga, 7 x 44/50/54.
Tasty and interesting cigars.
"The first few puffs of the Daga are quite smooth with a discernable oak to the flavor. There is a mild pepper and mild spice on the finish. As the bulb burns off I pick up recurring bits of coffee and leather that are interwoven through the smoke. While progressing through the bulb elements of citrus dart through the oaky smoke. Through the first third the strength is mild, yet complex, while the flavor is medium to full.
Just past the bulb and there is a dominant cedar that steps to the foreground along with a sweet milk chocolate, coffee, and a very soft pepper. Through the second third and the flavors are consistent with the cedar at the foreground, as well as varying shifts between milk and dark chocolate, and a creamy coffee. The strength is moving into the medium range. flavor remains complex and noteworthy".
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Oddly enough I was just thinking about the Q D'Etats I had a while ago. A very nice smoke with a unique shape ('resembles' a Molotov), however I feel their price point (Canuckistan) is too high.
This morning I had a Perdomo 20th Anniversary Epicure on the way into work...I'm regretting it.
Not because I was disappointed with it, it's that my cold is now full blown and I truly couldn't enjoy it to its full extent....
...user error on that one.
I have no doubt it, like all the other Perdomos I've had, is nothing short of impressive!!
Romeo y Julieta Hermosos No.1 - Edición Limitada 2003.
Nothing special, but nice cigar with classical Cuban flavor.
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