Cigars and the law of Diminishing returns

[headstand]

I suppose I am saying the elements that made it a 93 for you once, may not be there longterm. It may be a 95 cigar for someone else....but an 85 for you. The constant in reviews is how subjective taste is. One mans Cohiba is anothers Guantanamera.

Never assume a cigar you are thoroughly enjoying will remain or improve upon that utility indefinately.

Got it. Smoke'm if you have them.

[Yoruba Hacker]

I don't recall the thread you refer to that inspired this thread, but if the thesis is that The Hoyo Pyramide is beginning to decline,

and therefore keep an eye out for decline in your other aging stock, I disagree with the premise. I had one recently (I dip into

my remaining stash of these once or twice a year), and it was fantastic.

That said, I will say what I always say: All you know about a Cuban cigar is whatever you experienced with that one cigar. Not sure how wise it is to make sweeping generalizations about a box or a line based on that one cigar. If you got a dud from a 10 year old box, who's to say it wouldn't have been a dud five years ago? And next year when the box is a year older and you pull out a stunner from that box, are you going to assume that somehow that year of age "improved" the cigars?

They're Cuban cigars. All you know is that one. Non-Cuban cigars? Different story.

[Dbone]

You know the kind of savoring you do with a habano where you literally close your eyes, you look at the cigar between puffs, you are conscious of the feel of the habano in your fingers, you enjoy the feel of the foot of the cigar between your lips. you smell the aroma of the cigar in the air and you hope to smell that again.

Schwing!! Stop it already Arnold

[investandprosper]

.... you enjoy the feel of the foot of the cigar between your lips. ....

Now, that's something new. I haven't ever put the foot of my cigar in my mouth, let alone enjoyed the burning sensation :lol:

[LeafLover]

Now, that's something new. I haven't ever put the foot of my cigar in my mouth, let alone enjoyed the burning sensation :lol:

Ahhh ****! Didn't see that. I suppose my subconscious wouldn't let me use the word "head" in that sentence.

Well, gotta go make that appointment with the plastic surgeon to repair my lips now.....

[Dbone]

You where just caught up in the moment bud

[Van55]

were there two releases of the Hoyo Pyrimid? I think I got a box of the second release and they never measured up to the first few I got in trade.

Absolutely consistent with my experience. The first ones released were fantastic cigars. Those released (dated) a few months later were simply average to my taste.