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Punch Punch Punch 2020. Hoyo du gourmet 2013. Hoyo du Roi 1997.

MEL OCT 15 RACA MEL FEB 14 Punch DC Two great MEL cigars

Rio Seco from the FoH 21 Christmas sampler. Not my typical ring gauge, but excellent flavor and construction on this one.

First time with this one. It’s very good! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Last from a 2015 box of very light-bodied PSD4s. This one was fairly firmly rolled and burned brilliantly: great clouds of mild smoke. Nice after along day.

Trinidad Reyes BSM Jul 2020

Very strange ‘18 RASS. Tasted like tar from the pre light on. A few decent puffs and a few I had to clean my mouth out after. This RASS cab just never turned on! Of course after I post the tar disappeared and became pretty pleasant.

Siglo VI

LFD Double Ligero. I enjoyed this cigar for an hour and a half. Sweet opening tried, built in intensity,with coffee and white pepper notes. Final third was more of the same,only got gnarly at the very end. I rested it for a number of months before smoking it.

I love smoking DCs when given the chance. These days laptop is usually in hand, there is work to do, but it is so much nicer to have one of the great Cuban cigars of the world to help one's day along. It is a woody / creamy smoke with a lovely mouthfeel, beautifully balanced and a touch under medium bodied for the first half and becoming medium to medium full and right on full at the finale. Really perfect.

A random custom corona gorda

Petit Corona, MEG MAY 16

Vegas Robaina Maestros Edición Regional España 2007 paired with some Blanton’s.

Nice morning smoke with a Siglo I MUL FEB 14

C&C time. PLMC (2019) from our gracious host.

Thanks to Peter and Agnes, Sam and Connie for making the journey out from the big city to join Dana and I for a boat ride and a little lunch. It was a perfect day (for MN people-bloody cold if you were an Ozzie) 70 f and a slight breeze. Our guests were very generous bringing great cigars, wine and gifts. Thanks guys, can’t wait to catch up again

Enjoyed a Partagás Serie C No. 3 Edición Limitada 2012.

2007 Punch Punch. Real swell! Only got a few more of these though. And I can't believe I'm burning the only thing thats worth any money in my life these days!

I picked up a 10-count of singles of SMA Oct 2018 Montecristo Petit Edmundos prior to the announced price changes from Habanos S.A coming through...

Partagas Lonsdale CUE SEP03 from a 50 cab. Still plenty of life left with these.

ML BSM FEB 20 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

H Upmann #2 - GEM APR 20 A fantastic smoke, 2 asher

Partagas short

Diplomaticos Bushido.

19 PLPC. Not leaving this spot to go find a code but damn! It gets better with a few more years? 92* right now. RL Seales rum and this. If this is torture, just chain me to the wall! I'm not leaving.

Best smoke of the year, just incredible... on a friend's deck with a '99 Bordeaux.

Wife likes to take a few puffs when I'm smoking ... She found a new favorite

100 degrees and a 2015 Monte 2 light wrapper. Perfect hot weather cigar. Hits the spot. Tilly’s laying on an ac vent somewhere in the house. Can’t say I blame her 🥵

San Cristóbal de la Habana Oficios LCDH (FIN DIC 05).

I introduced my mate to the Epi 2 a few months back after telling me that he was physically sick after smoking his first cigar. Of course, he tried his first cigar at 2am after around eight litres of beer, countless shots and it was likely a Bolivar or Opus X Double Corona type thing that just blew his head off. He fell in love with the flavour of the Epi 2 and is now keen to get into cigars. His birthday was a few weeks ago and I've been busy picking out cigars from my collection to put into a humidor that comfortably fits up to 40 sticks. I've put my first pass list below but wanted to see what others thought and whether I am missing anything obvious or whether I'm putting in anything ridiculous. Sorry if this has been done before but a basic search yielded nothing specific... From the list below assume I'm planning to put one, but maybe two of some cigars: El Rey Del Mundo Choix Supreme El Rey Del Mundo Demi Tasse Padron Damasao No. 8 (Corona Gorda) Portagas Series D No. 4 Punch Punch (from 21) Por Larrañaga Petit Corona Por Larrañaga Galanes Cohiba Robusto Quai d'Orsay 54 Montecristo Especiales No. 2 Punch Short de Punch Montecristo Edmundo Hoyo de Monterrey Hoyo du Depute Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 1 Hoyo de Monterrey Hoyo du Rio Seco Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes San Cristóbal de La Habana La Fuerza H. Upmann No. 2 H. Upmann Mag 50 Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Presidente Trinidad Reyes N3 Carlotas (both shades) Rafael Gonzalez Perlas Any comments are greatly appreciated/welcome.

Cohiba Siglo VI Cohiba Esplendidos Cohiba Lanceros Cohiba Genios Cohiba Behike 52/54/56 Cohiba Medio Siglo Cohiba Piramides Just kidding!

Worst most flavorless Cuban I have ever smoked bar none. No flavor/body like smoking paper. Traded what I had left to a fan of these. And it was a 2010 box. Age did nothing for these. The box came from our host many years ago. I don't get it, Habanos will axe a great cigar like the Upmann PC but continue to make these flavorless turds. Sorry, I won't sugarcoat my opinion on these.

I smoked one just this morning. I remember my first Choix which I eagerly took ROTT and hated it. Left it for a few months and bang - oodles of citrus, cream and wood notes. It's now probably the one cigar I rave about time and time again. I feel that the ERDM blend/characteristics are probably my favourite of all cigars and if HSA did nothing else but ERDM (highly unlikely looking at the current brand portfolio of ERDM) I would be a happy man. It would be easy to overpower the fairly delicate flavours of the Choix and I always tell folk that this is either a morning smoke OR one to have with a champagne or white wine. I think this works well with a German Riesling but many whites will do. Champagne it fizzes away beautifully with these flavours. I remember Rob (I think) saying that this was a poor mans CoRo. Well in that case, I be the poor man as I'd take this over a CoRo any day of the week/month/year. Gushing over

17 Petit Ed. One is never enough!

1997 Hoyo du Roi.

SAR SEP 11. Magical box that subsequent boxes have not lived up to.

Have a nice evening everyone ... SC El Principe RAT ENE 20.

Hot Box Codes Last Month (30 days) BLT TUA RAT UME LOS

C&C time. JL No. 1 & Ramon Allones Superiores.

We have this and 2 other tables. My wife forgets we only have 2 kids

Haven't read the full thread so apologies if this may be a duplicate but the new prices hit Italy yesterday. The prices increased from approx USD 18 for a Trinidad Vigia to USD 55. CORO went from 34 to 76. One shop owner told me that they didn't expect to sell any of these brands at those prices and that the distributor would come and pick up all the cigars later this year that were unsold. I don't know if those were/are official instructions or just what they believe will happen, because the cigars would otherwise just sit unsold for a long time. Just speculation but maybe all unsold cigars will be shipped off to UK/ME/HK eventually.

Except for the exceptions like Fonseca Number 1, Siglo V, HDM Dieux etal

"Jorge wasn't sure if he should varnish the bottom of the box......so he just did a little bit. " It was the least of Jorges problems

I would use the Humidor to display my jewelry... Wonder if they would discount it without the cigars,

Those look like flutes

00001 started around mid-2011 00002 late 2013 00003 early 2016 00004 late 2017 00005 in late 2020 Boxes can sit around in Havana prior to sealing for a number of reasons, so seeing an old box with a new number isn't much of a red flag, ie, there was a batch of 2010 Monte Open Juniors doing the rounds last year with 00005 seals. Someone must have discovered a cache in the warehouse. There is no legitimate way, however, that a box with a recent date stamp can get a seal with a number from 10 years ago. Dealbreaker for fakes.

Not a new arrival but they have sat around long enough to acclimate. A little Ebony and Ivory.