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Juan Lopez Selection No. 1 collection vintage. I think 2016

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Monte Double Edmundo and an HU no2, both pretty good..

JL4 and some Rhum Rhum Liberation. Here’s to the start of a good weekend, FOH!

UEB Jun 2019 - perfect example of RyJ Churchill - great smoke and a smooth buzz

Epi.2 from UEB ABR 18. Totally uncharacteristic for the marca and vitola, this is a dark, intense PSP box. Only just starting to be approachable now, and still very full and intense. Weird for Hoyo.

Adventura “The Navigator” — not gonna lie, as a CC smoker, this ticked a lot of boxes for me… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just got these two boxes today. Both smell amazing

RASS

My first Tatuaje. It looked much smaller when I bought it, but next to a La Trova it's huge. Smooth, sweet & mellow with good flavors.

Fundy. Forget the year. I've had better.

Just wanted to express a sadness and dismay about the killing of what seemed like a very kind and mild mannered man. I know a very small about Japanese politics, but he seemed to be a universally loved and respected figure. I'm sure every political figure attracts their enemies no matter how meek and mild. Nobody deserves this, but it just made me especially sad and angry, that there are so many hateful, self serving, destabilising, and corrupt politicians in the world right now, and THIS guy get assassinated!!!? The world makes no sense sometimes. RIP

Casual Thursday evening garden smoke. No one around to see the double band!

Two lovely boxes arrived today. Hoyo de Monterrey Petit Robusto TUA ENE 22 and Montecristo Petit Edmundo MLS NOV 21. Nice aroma…

These codes had the highest % of PSP/HQ in June 2022. If you are shopping blind (anywhere) you could do worse than to pick one of these if you have the option. These are all 2021/2022 and generally across multiple lines. TEU AMP LGB LOS TUA GEL TLU TRS RAT BLT

A Churchill seemed apropos this morning. Paired with a fine craft mineral water. ESL ABR 19 a PSP offering from our host. So far an excellent box example of this marca. Complexity and construction in spades.

I acquired some singles of LGR Jun 2019 San Cristobal de la Habana El Principe...

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Following up yesterday's BBF with an Ashton Cabinet Bellicoso. And the comparison was...

Better than the 54/50 imho

...you two

The always reliable Quintero Favoritos

I have posted this before but it seems more appropriate for this thread…

RAG - have a great weekend all 🥂

Nice box of Romeo y Julieta Petit Churchill arrived today. Lovely fragrance. BEL FEB 22

I’ve been remiss to post in a timely fashion. Last 3 shipments from 24:24. Mag46 OER OCT-21 RASS GRM OCT-21 RASCC SOU NOV-21 MAG54 TUE OCT-21 RyJ Cedros de Luxe PTG FEB-22 Haven't seen lighter colored wrappers on the RASS for some time.

We finally figured out how to grow things after a couple of disappointing seasons. Turns out plants like water… We pulled this out today and have been pulling similar amounts out about every two days for the last couple of months. Also been pulling out tons of okra, green beans, snow peas, turnips, radishes, and carrots. Probably something else in there I forgot about.

Decent p2, does p2 need some rest to shine ? This one is from a 2020 box

A couple boxes from FOH El Rey del Mundo Demi Tasse SOR Dec 21. Bolivar Petite Coronas TUA Dec 21

I do the Staff Performance reviews next month at Czars. It is the highlight of my year. I take all my inspiration frm Conan.

Don’t know anything about it but this is great.

At work ... both of us 😁

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2006 Tubos day.

About 2 weeks ago, I smoked one of these at a BBQ and I remember it being extremely tasty. Now, I had been downing quite a few glasses of wine and was having some pretty well peated Islay Scotch with the cigar. So I’ve been meaning to revisit this to see whether it’s still as tasty, what better time than a PC review weekend! The cigars came from a local brick and mortar, got them about 6 months ago. The box they came from was MSU JUL 18. Formula 1 free practice is on, perfect length for a Petit Corona. Pre-light Bit of a mottled wrapper, a little lumpy too. Smells of hay and tobacco. I straight cut it, draw is excellent. The cold draw doesn’t reveal much other than sweet tobacco. First half On the first draws, there is a very pronounced vanilla sweetness. Now, sweet does not mean light in this case. On the palate there is this big bold tobacco core with a bitter drying effect. This is exactly like the other one was, very satisfying. It’s kind of like a gin&tonic. Not the flavors, but the sweetness up front followed by the bitter drying effect. On the retrohale I can detect something of a dark cherry. Second half The draw flavor remains sweet, not vanilla anymore but darker sweetness. On the palate it got way bolder. Leather, earth and coffee. The retrohale is now all dried fruit. As I go past the band all the sweetness goes and the smoke starts tasting of toasted mixed nuts. The smoke gets too hot or I would’ve smoked it even further down. Conclusion It held up to my inebriated recollection of the other one. Construction was good, didn’t have to correct the burn and the ash held on for a few inches at a time. Smoked it in about 45 minutes. 93/100

My last QDO 54 could also float around the room.......as they were so underfilled

Last night, I smoked a N3 Ebony Carlota. This one—now in my possession for 6 months—was amazingly better than the one that I smoked 3 months ago. I was thinking that the maduro version was not for me, but aging these Nudies changed my opinion. What a delicious smoke. Bravo Rob and Hamlet!

Well, after a month of matchups & voting, the H. Upmann Sir Winston has once again (based on similar comps in the past) defeated all-comers as the best Cuban cigar going! Smashing the Lusitania in the final matchup is a pretty impressive testament to its right to the title. The overall Bracket winner was @GotYaGoat with a super impressive 88%!! Very well done!! The Goat collects the fantastic grand prize Punch 898 box (10) for the win! - Please PM your details (name, address, and email) to me, and we'll arrange dispatch of your prize. Sampler prizes go to 2nd & 3rd places, which was a tie between 3 on 85%: @EMC12, @hrs1, and @Edwin M !! Again, PM your details to me. Final Top Ten Well done and thanks to all who participated! Also, special mention to Tom @tjkoala who came up with the concept and did much of the groundwork and operation for the comp - fantastic effort, Tom! Thank you!

RIP James. One of my favourite actors. Favourite Caan movie? So many great works. This wasn't one of them but still my favourite

For those who haven't read it (and are interested), an excellent interview with Phoenicia group Chairmen, Mohamed Zeidan CONTINUED These are the words of Mohamed Zeidan, Chairman of the Phoenicia Group of Companies, about the founding of his cigar supply and distribution business in Lebanon in 1979. The 40th anniversary of partnership with the Cuban cigar business through Cubatabaco and Habanos was due to be celebrated in November 2019, but postponed. Finally, last month, the group hosted a sumptuous evening that blended the physical and the virtual to mark the occasion.

Smoked my first of these a few months ago and (hand-to-God), I got notes of…salted steak with mushrooms. Granted I’d had a few Knob Creeks, but the taste was definitely there. Since then I’ve been stalking them like TMZ on a Kardashian and have managed to pick up a few boxes. Here’s hoping they can bring the same flavor, and that our esteemed host will have some to offer on 24:24 before too long!

RIP Kinda have to phrase this as "favorite movie besides the Godfather" (as you would for anyone in it, even Pacino I suspect). For me personally, it's Misery - not that it's an especially "great" movie, but I read a lot of Stephen King growing up. For an author whose work has been turned into some - ahem - questionable films, Misery was one that definitely hit the mark (and stayed much closer to the source material than The Shining). He and Bates had good chemistry (if you can call it that).

Punch Punch 48 (LGR AGO18).

just a reliable NC - AF casa cuba divine inspiration

Media Luna. BSM ABR 20.

First smoke on Ibiza was an Esmeralda. And I capped off the first night with a D4 on the balcony.

Two shades of Coronas Claro Both TUA 21, darker wrappers from MAY and lighter wrappers from SEP.

The Oscuro JL#2 had to get some bright sunlight to show some color. A 6er from 2019 maybe. I have had only a few and this one is showing very well.