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This evening's cigar. Hope all y'all are doing well!

ATE ABR 18 PSP Wide Churchill. This box is outstanding and they keep getting better. These can easily stand up to a good Churchill. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

NFL DRAFT CIGAR

C&C Time. RYJ Churchill from Christmas sampler. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

Fundi after a terribly tight Monte 4. It's as if I can breathe again.

an impressive cream/cocoa laden Monte 2.

One of my few remaining Grand Edmundos (BAP NOV 10) while watching cigar videos made by a couple clowns! ?

Picadores Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

ARS OCT 19 Esmeralda

A real biggie today - HdM Maravillas from 2016. At 55rg by 233mm, cigars don’t come much bigger than this monster (see pic for comparison with a Trini Fundadores). A generous gift from a colleague, this beauty has been sitting in my desktop humi for a couple of years. Today’s the day! Draw is a bit on the looser side (I used a punch cutter), but burn has been perfect without needing touching up. Very little evolution, just creamy, nutty goodness all the way. Beautiful!

Good night gentlemen

PLPC picked up from 24:24 FEB ABR 17 Managed to sneak in a Monte 4 from ‘04 today. Even managed a quick drop in on the Herf also.

Played w storage today. Set up a “deeper” lockdown for my aging boxes in some IRIS containers. Made a whole lotta room in the Coolidor for rotating boxes now. ran through the singles tray and saw this. Have not loved them in the past but had an awesome aged RJ Churchill a few weeks ago so why not smoke this w a cocktail before the Draft. opening 1/2 inch mellow and smooth but somewhat unremarkable. Will update if my review changes AND if I don’t drink the remaining third of the bottle of McKenna bourbon that I spied. ok not drunk yet first third almost done then the twang arrive thank you lord I was worried this was going to be a dud edit Rain is intensifying. So is the cigar. Glad the awning is keeping me dry. More pepper and leather/earth. Starting to enjoy this smoke. Might be the bourbon. NFL draft in 30.

May or may not be on my third cigar and it’s not even 6pm. But this Sig II is the best of them. Perfect cigar.

Social distancing in Venice with a Rio.

2015 BCG

Tried my 1st ever Diplomaticos No. 2, from a fresh box LGR AGO 18.

A perfect 70 degrees outside, beautiful day. Going with a Cohiba Siglo IV POU OCT 13, an HQ box that I’m finally diving in to.

N3

ABO OCT 18. A step above that JL2 yesterday. So much twang and cream. Fantastic

PET DIC 16. HUPC. Can’t stop smoking these lately

A nice H Up no. 2

Hail to the Redskins...although without corners, pass rushers can be seen as ‘meh’. Happy Friday!

This is the first time I've ever had one of these. I was shocked at how fantastic it was despite being so young. ABR 19. Delicious!

2017 Vigia....sipped it for almost 2 hours

PMU NOV 14, from a freshly cracked PSP box, and it's been -- as our Aussie friends say -- an absolute cracker. Terrific sweetness and complexity!

These are only getting better...

Lovely TES MAR 17 RyJ #4. Darker, more fungal than the short Churchill. More earthy and serious, but still exotic and rose-petal perfumed. I was frankly buzzed on good wine, and then finished off most of a bottle of fizz with the smoke, while catching up with a good old friend. This is what cigars are for!

HU Mag 50 (ESL SEP-18) first one from the box. Been in the Humi at 64% for a little over 4 months and thought I'd try one. Dry boxed it for 5 days at 52%. Started out very smooth, but getting very little smoke with a tight draw. Had to work the draw tool almost immediately and improved enough to be a pleasant smoke for an hour and 25 minutes. Right around the last third it became an effort to keep it lit and I stopped fighting the CC shortly after the last picture. As you can see from the pictures it is an overcast, rainy day in FL and I'm sure the outside humidity did its work on this CC. Will try agin in 6 months as I see some FOH members smoking these, and enjoying them, while they are still young.

@SigSauer516 sprinkled these God of Fire around at the last Chicago Habanos Society Herf. Very generous BOTL move in support of the B&M shop that hosted us. Thanks, brother. Hope all is well. Cheers

It is now 3:00 am. Perhaps I should have waited until morning to try out the machine...

NC day. San Cristobal Revelation. Smooth easy smoke. One dimensional.

NC today

Quai d'Orsay No. 50 MSA May 2019 This Quai d'Orsay No.50 today made me appreciate what a good run I've had with this cigar in the last twelve months. It was slightly underfilled and as a result it gave off large plumes of smoke per draw and hence I needed to smoke it very slowly. The usual toffee-like sweetness and soft hay flavours weren't there, in their place was the charred wood and spice which in comparison I tolerated but lamented missing. There was some ginger shortbread to redeem the cigar, even if that redemptive value was relatively minor. Overall, this cigar was a disappointment but I've had so many good to great Quai d'Orsay No.50s that I envisage the next one I have will make me forget this one!

Good but still NC Just became notable...still NC tho

C&C Time. Cohiba Medio Siglo (2017) - 24:24 Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

I have special memories related to this NC. It was spring 2015 when I was with my friend in Chicago. We were travelling from Finland to Omaha Nebraska (Berkshire Hathaway shareholders annual meeting) and we stayd 3 night in Chicago. We visited Ivan Ries & co cigar lounge wich was great. We smoked E.P. la Historia paired with Jack Daniels and cherry coke. After visiting Chicago we went to Omaha Nebraska to see what Berkshire CEO Warren Buffet and his vice chairman Charlie Munger has to say about investing and life. That was a really great experience. 10 monts after that trip me and my wife had our firstborn and 2 days after so did my friend and his wife And the cigar. Well it was not truly special smoke. It had perfect draw but was one dimensional. The athmosphere and good company made it truly special.

Talked my wife into it... She was hesitant due to the price point but it's an investment in us as far as I'm concerned. It's gonna take like 10 days for delivery. I can't wait. Jura Ena 8

One for the background over the weekend. Great mix

Bought me a new St. Croix fishing rod with a top notch Shimano reel. Ready to tear up the fish! Sent from my SM-T820 using Tapatalk

H.upmann- Connoisseur A SOM FEB’16

After about a week of intermittent cutting, sanding, mounting, etc. I have completed my Le Escepcion Selectos Finos shadow box. Box # 1584 was disassembled, cleaned up and mounted. Components include. Inner flap logo Serial # from Warranty seal. Cedar insert Box # plaque. Side of box. Bottom of box where box code is. Descriptive insert. Original bands (on the cigar) The cigar is made from a wood dowel, covered in paper mache and then painted with acrylic paint. The hue/shade isn't perfect but I think it works well. And being acrylic paint, if I want to take another go at it, it's easy to paint over.

So after a visit to the general practitioner yesterday and the cardiologist today it turns out the chest pains are most likely musculoskeletal vs. heart related. He switched up some meds and scheduled a stress test in a couple of weeks to confirm. It's quite a relief as I was getting ready to stop smoking ? Otherwise feel pretty good other than the hernia operation I'm now due for as the doctor yesterday found a small one and popped it back in. Not sure when that will be happening due to the current hospital situation. When it rains it pours. Smoked a Monte 80th after the appointment today. No pictures but a great smoke!

received this, this morning, from one of my mates who is normally so busy he would not have time to rsvp to his own daughter's wedding. Only in Brisbane, I swear!! ? me! I drive into the servo on Lutwyche Road on my way home to fill up last night. I noticed 2 police were watching a woman who was smoking while filling her car up. I thought, is she stupid, crazy, or both, especially with the police standing RIGHT there?! ?.. I minded my own business filled the car up and went inside to pay. As we were paying for the fuel, we heard someone screaming!! I looked outside and I saw that this woman's arm was on fire!!!! She was swinging her arm, running around and going nuts!! I ran outside, the police had the woman on the ground and they were putting the fire out!! Then they put handcuffs on her and put her in the police car. I was a bit shocked, couldn't believe they arrested her, surely she ought to be in an ambulance, not a police car?! Me being nosey as I am, I asked the policeman what they were arresting her for. He looked at me, dead serious, and said, "WAVING A FIRE ARM”!!

It's just been spread thin. Also, I believe post-Criollo ligero is inherently less flavorful. Lately it really only adds "strength" and not character as @PigFish notes. I believe the rich earthiness/woodiness of pre-98 CCs like Pary, Boli, Punch SS1/2, Monte 2, RyJ Cazzie, etc. was due mostly to the ligero and not the seco. I think Cubatabaco realizes this. Too much ligero will overwhelm the seco anyway, particularly if the ligero provides more strength and less flavor. There are so many large RG cigars they can use up the ligero pretty easily and keep the cigars medium. I recently had Carlos Fernandez roll me a Robustos Extra with 3 times as much ligero as he would normally use as an experiment. He substituted two leaves of ligero for one leaf of volado and one of seco. The cigar was both strong and flavorless. And interestingly, the cigar got less strong as it went on until it became rather bland. Quite simply, the heart of a cigar's character is seco.

Put in about 45 hours painting at my grandparents house over the last two weeks. They had an addition put on recently that's 75 percent complete and due to COVID, its progress has come to a standstill. They've been wanting this painted for some time now and weren't going to wait any longer for it to be done to have the painters do it. There were a few more existing areas in green that I had painted over in grey to match the rest of the back. These were easy as they only needed one coat. The addition, like the rest of the house is unfinished cedar an soaked up the paint like the desert sand during an infrequent rain storm. It required 2-4 coats in some areas. I'm no professional painter but I think it turned out ok. Here are a few before/after pics of the siding/trim work I had to paint. Now kicking back with a little cedar peanut butter Famosos.

I also had the El Principe tonight. Burst of sweetness (honey/ brown sugar/ caramel) from the first puff. Very floral from the beginner to the end. It ended with wood and nut. This little one is very satisfying. Mine is from 2017.

An RASCC from Mar 2016. Sunshine, beer and a Cuban .....beautiful Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk