My Father THE JUDGE - Weekend Review Competition

[Buck14]

Overview: My first NC in about 4 months - and my last for a very long time!

Draw: When you look up “WIND TUNNEL” in the dictionary there must be a glossy 4x4 foot picture of THE JUDGE.  I have never had a cigar move wind like this baby.

Taste: If you dig up some ransid dirt and mix it with a few metric tons of human manure, then dry that mixture with a blow torch and dump a bunch of sulfur and iodine into the mix, you might then began to resemble the flavor profile of THE JUDGE BY MI PADRE.

Burn: If you like canoeing then you will LOVE this cigar.  Multiple opportunities for retouching, purging, massaging and manipulating this piece of garbage.

Rating: -25 out of 100

Lasting Impression: If you have too many friends and yearn to thin the heard, buy of box of these babies and pass them out at your next shindig - you’ll be glad you did!

[OB1]

Awesome review. Lol

it has thickness going for it. 

[NSXCIGAR]

Wait, I thought NCs were head and shoulders above CCs in QC? 

Just goes to show CCs really aren't that bad, especially considering the capital, state-of-the-art equipment and facilities and competition in the NC world.

[xtcat9k]

You guys are funny some times. 

[Chuckmejia]

Had one recently that was gifted to me.

 

awful 

 

thats the nicest word i could come up with to describe it 

[dozer996]

I echo everything everyone is saying about the Judge, this stick was horrible...poop stains


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[clarkvstewart]

Damn this makes me sad. I bought a fiver of them but haven't tried them yet. So far the la antiguidad is the only stick in this line I found smokable. What sucks is I had planned on buying a box of these for my father, a retired judge of 30 years for Christmas. Has the Bijou demand just ruined the whole line trying to get smokes in shops?


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[Fugu]

  On 10/9/2017 at 10:21 PM, clarkvstewart said:

Damn this makes me sad. I bought a fiver of them...
 

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So, an excellent decision to join here. Welcome to FoH! 

[Buck14]

  On 10/9/2017 at 10:21 PM, clarkvstewart said:

Damn this makes me sad. I bought a fiver of them but haven't tried them yet. So far the la antiguidad is the only stick in this line I found smokable. What sucks is I had planned on buying a box of these for my father, a retired judge of 30 years for Christmas. Has the Bijou demand just ruined the whole line trying to get smokes in shops?


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Doesn’t mean yours will necessarily suck...don’t know until you try them.  And BTW, La Flor de Las Antillas is a NC made by the Garcia (My Father) family the same people that make THE JUDGE.  La Flor de las Antillas is my favorite NC.  So you never know. Go buy a La Flor and sample it you might love it...skip the judge and get those

[Islandboy]

  On 10/9/2017 at 10:21 PM, clarkvstewart said:

What sucks is I had planned on buying a box of these for my father, a retired judge of 30 years for Christmas. 

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Wow, that would’ve been perfect. You can always just get him the car instead.

[Winchester21]

Funny The Garcia is typically a good to great stick for a NC. A guy at the shop bought one of these megaturds and lit it up. After 15 minutes and 3 cans of butane he finally threw the ugly thing in the trash along with a volley of f bombs. He said he had never tasted shit firsthand but if he had it would resemble this excuse for a cigar. So u are not alone with your observations. He was considering licking his dog's ass to get the taste out of his mouth.  Sorry you wasted your money. Note to self. Don't buy the Judge?☠️

[BuzzArd]

I've had three and all were fantastic smokes. 

[Doctorossi]

Buck14, you really threw the book at The Judge.

[ElPuro]

  On 10/10/2017 at 9:11 AM, Winchester21 said:

He was considering licking his dog's ass to get the taste out of his mouth. 

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Intense. Can't say that particular thought has ever crossed my mind. Usually a glass of milk, beer or a dram of scotch does it for me, but to each his own, I guess? 

[Buck14]

  On 10/10/2017 at 9:04 PM, Doctorossi said:

Buck14, you really threw the book at The Judge.

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I did and the Garcia Family deserved it for putting out such a piece of shit stick.  BTW, for me, the Garcia Family (My Father) and Arturo Fuente produce the best NCs for the last several years bar none, nothing else even close.  But that JUDGE was a whored out marketing driven piece of absolute shit nonrepresentative of the good Garcia name - they should be ashamed.

[Danimalia]

I had a single a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it. I guess I'm in the minority here. The construction mine was good, too. I dunno. YMMV.

[Buck14]

MY FATHER THE JUDGE GRAN ROBUSTO #7 CIGAR AFICIONADO 2017 CIGARS OF THE YEAR

http://top25.cigaraficionado.com/2017/my-father-the-judge-grand-robusto/

Come on man, you have to be shitt*ng me? LMFAO

Definitely in my three least favorite cigars in 2017 - what the hell is going on?

And, btw, I actually like Cigar Aficionado and am a subscriber!

 

[KnightsAnole]

 

Cigar Journal has it as the #1 cigar of the year. Ive found these lists a little suspect for years. I wonder exactly what advertising buys in these rags sometimes.

[Kitchen]

I bought a couple of these, had one and will probably not have the other.  I thought it was horrible too. 

[Lotusguy]

  On 12/20/2017 at 6:17 PM, Buck14 said:

MY FATHER THE JUDGE GRAN ROBUSTO #7 CIGAR AFICIONADO 2017 CIGARS OF THE YEAR
http://top25.cigaraficionado.com/2017/my-father-the-judge-grand-robusto/
Come on man, you have to be shitt*ng me? LMFAO
Definitely in my three least favorite cigars in 2017 - what the hell is going on?
And, btw, I actually like Cigar Aficionado and am a subscriber!
 

That's hilarious.

I bought and tried to smoke one at a B&M recently - damn it was bad. Hard to believe it's made by the same guys that brought out the really good La Flor De Las Antillas (not the Maduro one!).

[omgpauljr]

I had one a couple of months ago and it was so awful that I stopped halfway. I’d rather smoke a Montrcristo Puritos. The fact that something like a Cohiba Medio Siglo was not ranked higher than this turd tells you all you need to know about CA’s top 10. 

[godpheonix]

well the CA magazine is full of NC and Dom cigar adds, so its really not hard to understand the top 25 list choices. what would really be astonishing is seeing mostly CC in that list!!

now that's not saying that some of those choices they make are not good cigars but that's relative to other American cigar companies and nothing coming out of Cuba really.

So when you look at that list, remember that's its really looking at the top 25 of the American cigar market. the few cubans they do add there are just to throw people off or deflect controversy.