Petit Robusto and Dinosaurs.

[El Presidente]

Magnum 54, Medio Siglo, New QD........the HSA love affair with the Petit Robusto shows no sign of abating. 

Don't get me wrong. I am not panning it. I love a good Monte Petit Edmundo or HDM Petit Robusto as much as the next person. 

Is it my favourite size? Not even close.  They are proving to be very good cigars but personally I just can't come around to see them as regulars in my personal rotation. 

PC/Corona/Corona Extra/Lonsdale/Hermoso Number 4.......be there or there about's and i am but putty in their hands 

Knowing our sales figures I can see that i am in the minority.  I am quickly becoming a Dinosaur. 

if there are any other dino's out there...raise your hand. I suspect that while not exactly heading to extinction, our grazing lands are being progressively restricted. 

 

[lafabrica]

[Jbhunter223]

I'm fairly new to CC's, but I'm all about the PC. For me it's the perfect combo of time, value, and flavor/enjoyment. I have been working my way through the PC's that Habanos has to offer and hate to see those offerings go away before I get the chance to try them. 

[dvickery]

42ring is my " girth " of choix .

to me corona gordas are a large cigar .

through luck ... I have more smallish cigars than I will smoke in my lifetime .

in a happy place

derrek

[PlatypusMaximus]

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[Danimalia]

I really like the two Habanos petit robustos I've tried: The HdM and the Monte PE. Really nice cigars.

My main beef is that their smoking time is more minuto-ish than robusto or even PC, in my experience. If they were priced similar to minutos or PCs, I'd probably be a lot more enthusiastic, though I usually prefer a longer smoke in general. 

 

 

[Blakes]

36 minutes ago, dvickery said:

42ring is my " girth " of choix .

to me corona gordas are a large cigar .

This ^^^

I think (roughly) about 80% of what I smoke are Marevas/Minutos. The other 20% is a mix up between anything under 6.5" in length ( plus Dalias )  and 48RG  and under. Now and then I'll have the odd Beli or Robusto.  

In summer this usually evens out to about 50/50. 50% PC's and 50% the rest.

Larger cigars, IMO take more effort to smoke. I want to relax when smoking a cigar, let it smoke itself and take me on a journey rather than me having to 'smoke it' almost making it feel like a chore.

[tengel78]

I completely agree as well.  Give me a 46rg and smaller cigar any day of the week.  

[fabes]

I'd say I'm a young Dinosaur. I don't have the tenure of some of our more classic dinos, but am certainly more dino that the casual B&M visitor. I spent the past several years smoking through the marcas and vitolas to see what I like and enjoy. There is much greater value in the smaller and thinner formats. I've found cigars like le hoyo du depute are far more interesting to me than the epi 2 or san juan. 

I'll take that list you put up @El Presidente and add julietta no.2 for those "big cigar" urges, add some panatelas for the sipping cigars and I'm good to go. 

[oliverdst]

Medio siglo, média corona, Petit 2... the trend is chop the cigar and double its value.

[Philc2001]

Count me in, I'm a skinny dino-nerd all the way - anything between 38 and 46 works for me. I especially love Lonsdale, Corona, Corona Gorda, PCs, and Marevas, and probably in that order.

 

[wabashcr]

I prefer a corona gorda, PC or a lonsdale, but I have no complaints about the petit robusto format, as long as they're appropriately priced (which they often are not).  I generally get close to an hour out of them, and the ring gauge isn't wide enough to bother me.  Whereas I have no interest in a lot of the bigger ring stuff they've been releasing lately, I'm happy to smoke a good petit robusto.

[1LegLance]

For years it was all lonsdales....back when they made some...RG Lonsdale (the orginal), SLR, Boli, Part 898 (one of the few left)...

with petite coronas as my cheap backup sticks....

Now it seems PC's & Minutos/Tres Petites are my norm with what few corona gordas are still around...Hermoso #4 is a nice size also.

But fat sticks, yuck....blends are so totally screwed when putting together a fat stick....it is interesting to talk with factory people about how many leafs go into each size.

 

[skalls]

Lonsdales and double coronas make me happy.  Big fan of robustos too.

I get why these smaller buggers are liked though.  The petit edmundo is a little flavor bomb when you only have 45 minutes to have a cigar.

[stogieluver]

T Rex here.

[99call]

With the most recent trends, I can only assumed HSA are in cahoots with Putin and Trump, sounds like folly but maybe theres something in it. 

There is a brilliant documentary by Adam Curtis called 'Bitter Lake'. It touches on many things to do the birth of extremisim in the middle east. One of the interesting points it lingers on, is that someone in the Putin press cabinet, has worked out if you release a multitude of conflicting statements that all seem true and ridiculous in equal measure, that the actual impact upon the public is confusion, but more importantly submission. When you don't know what is good or bad, the general human response is the be passive and just step into line

Now I'll get back on point. When you're showered with RE's and LE's to the point where quality and character is so fleeting, and cannot be charted, your left bemused, and with the feeling of some idiotic school kid, blindly collecting baseball cards, not necessarily for the desire of owning them, but more for the fear of missing out. 

Regular production is a bit like that brilliant restaurant thats been drawing in 1000s of customers over decades for serving up that perfect steak. HSA have basically performed some weird sort of hoodoo, where they open up a vip only, pop up eatery  every other day, in a new secret location, with an improvised on the spot menu. The only problem is, is the food (although covered in gold leaf) ultimately doesn't scratch that itch of being memorable or truely satisfying. 

Now, I have no doubt, that some of these special releases in the future will be proved to be excellent cigars, but where is the back story? where is the class?

[Colt45]

My favorite dinosaur is pterodactyl.

My sign is scorpio with a bad moon rising.

[oliverdst]

One day you will all look back and say: remember those skinnies 60 RG?

[TheMonk]

7 minutes ago, oliverdst said:

One day you will all look back and say: remember those skinnies 60 RG?

I certainly hope that's not the case!

[Duffer]

I may be in a different minority, but my favorite size is the Churchill.  With the Bolivar CG soon to become extinct, the size seems to be becoming the dinosaur that I apparently am.

[HarveyBoulevard]

I will smoke anything between a 38 and 83...though that 83 does hurt a bit.

The longer it is...the skinnier I can take it. 

If its short...it better be fat.

[subport]

2 hours ago, Philc2001 said:

Count me in, I'm a skinny dino-nerd all the way - anything between 38 and 46 works for me. I especially love Lonsdale, Corona, Corona Gorda, PCs, and Marevas.,,

 

^ this sums up nicely to me 

dont get me wrong. I will still smoke a robusto here and there and a dc too. Have yet to try those petit rubustos...maybe on day...or not

[RickHendeson]

Panatela is my preferred cigar so keep your swollen lonsdales Rob.   

[Fugu]

Do I have to say it....?

 

[kalibratecuba]

These larger size are an intervention of sorts for me. Fewer options means I spend less money and don't end up suckered into buying exclusives. Btw - I really appreciate the love for short smokes here. I don't see the sentiment anywhere else. We are confident men who know that small sticks yield great pleasures!

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