Your Best Cigar of November?

[El Presidente]

Your best cigar of the past month?

For myself, Ramses short Lancero took the cake but crikey the current 898 V I tried toward the end of the month I can still taste.

I haven't tasted a lot of real barnyard floor in my time (aroma ...yes). However in this 898 I swear I could taste the chicken poop/toasted tobacco/moist floor. It was feral...pungeant...confronting....GORGEOUS!

Your pick for November?

[Stalebread]

Edmundo Dantes El Conde from '07.

Really one of the best for quite a while, not just November.

[PADDYWHACK121272]

Trinidad Reyes OUR OCT 08 - 40 min of pure class

[Wil]

A superb Monte 4.

[adic88]

Monte Grand Edmundo for me. Fantastic cigar.

[Cohiba007]

Mag 48 for me. Just great to the nub

[JoshMP]

HdM Epicure No. 1 have been phenomenal,

The Wide Churchill's really grown on me too.

[Dbone]

I had two Partagas cigars on Thanksgiving day which were nothing short of remarkable. I had a 898V after the big meal, a few hours later after pumpkin pie I lit up a P2. Could have been one of the best "cigar days" of the year.

[Liuk]

to me november wasn't a lucky month about cigars! The best I had was a cohiba robusto!

[winelover]

Your pick for November?

Mine is RASS. I had an absolute stunner and first in 3 years that I nubbed and left me craving another. Box code unknown and most likely aged a little as it was a single picked up from the same vendor that was frequented by W. Churchill in Mayfair.

[BigGuns]

Mag50 blew me away a couple times over the past month.

[mbrody]

#1 was a 10 R&J Wide Churchill from a HQ Box - it was still young, but what was there was very promising. Some age should make it a bomb of flavor. Cherry, Sweet Wood, Spice, Pepper and Cream. I was able to forgive the size.

#2 09 PSD4 that smoked average up until this fall, then all of a sudden WHAMMO. Partagas flavor and strength that comes at you with guns ablazin.

[jdbrown]

Cohiba Behike 52...wish I had another Aristocrat filled to the gills with them!! 08 Partagas 898. Very rich and flavourful.

[thechenman]

For me it would be a Bolivar Corona Extra from 2007. I'm actually surprised.

[cigcars]

*My Partagas de Partagas No. 1

[PigFish]

I still have a few '99 Choke Supremes from a box I bought in '99. I have largely passed over these cigars and that is the reason I still have a few. I pulled one out the other day for a short trip to a woodworking show. WOW... what a cigar. This cigar was loaded with aromatics, very rich, well blended and spicy. It has been a standout cigar for me this year and certainly in the top three cigars this year.

I think my top cigars this year were:

'99 ERdM CS

'95 QdO Taino

'01 Monte Esp #2

I have really attacked the box of '01 Montes. These cigars are outta' this world! -Piggy

[Omskakas]

Didn't smoke many. The best might have been Party connie 3: Strong, rich and short for the cold weather.

[MPS]

80's CoLa en cello

[cgarner]

A des dieux. Not sure the box code or year, got them in a sampler pack and didn't keep track of the codes. Bloody good smoke. Glad I have a box secured.

[MrGlass]

Ramses Custom without a doubt. One of the best cigar experiences I've had. Smoking them wet is just something else.

[mef]

Ramses freshly rolled petite corona (though I got to smoke it on 3rd Dec). I suspect I may be the first to smoke a Ramses custom in NZ

The other great cigar is Monte 4 (HQ box) and original release of Por Larranaga RE Robusto.

[#2 man]

Last night I smoked an 08 HQ Dip 2 that was fabulous couldn't keep it away from my nose it smelled so good

[rdb6]

My favorite cigar for the month of November was a HDM Le Hoyo des dieux from 2000 month unknown. Sweet and complex along with some spice and tingling of the tongue. I have 5 or 6 more chillimg out for awhile before sparking them up.

[LeafLover]

08 Rafael Gonzales Coronas Extra. Simply fantastic in flavor and construction.

[shrink]

The best cigar I smoked in November surprised me. No, it shocked me...

It was a Cuaba Piramide EL. Previously, I had found these to be somewhat bland and one-dimensional. I once described them as resembling a Partagas P2 without the pepper and spice!

Unless my last example was an anomaly, a freak...

It opened with loads of tangy pepper, then progressed to show sweet spices and rich stewed fruits. It finished with more pepper, wood and earth. Medium-bodied and full-flavored. I'd describe it as a cross between a Partagas 898V and a Ramon Allones 898V. I've never tasted anything quite like it. Superb.