Por Larranaga Montecarlos LGR ABR 18 (NRW)

[Bucky McSwensen]

    This is one of my favorite sticks normally.  I have had nothing but good experiences with it and love sharing this long skinny with others.  I always prompt them to smoke them slow and not too hot for the best experience.  I brought this to a aussie wedding as a good cheap share.  Unfortunately the guests had already got amungst it (am I using that right?) a few hours earlier and were a bit hammered.  This stick proceeded to be shared with 6 people, bent, relit with a bic lighter, puffed on hard, scorched with a torch, and then abandoned at the midway point for an exit to catch the shuttle.  Not the biggest loss as I got these cheap, but I was handed it back.  Rather than chuck it I finished it off.  It was a bit plugged, it needed many touch ups, and it wasn't the classic PLMC I have come to expect.  I felt ashamed I had shared it.  I doubt I will see them again but hate it when a dud makes it to others.  I can handle that loss okay myself, but hate to gift it way.  Part of me wonders if the others thought I handed them an "off brand swisher".  Still not terrible but no where near what it should have been.  I want to assume it was a dud, but I cannot help but feel that they smoked it wrong and ruined it (like overcooking a steak).  This used to be one of my go to newbie share sticks and it is now on the nemesis list for that.  I shall stick to HUHC and other standards in the future and keep these for myself.  Bummer but not nearly the worst experience I have had.  Shame on me for expecting too much out of strangers.

 

I'd value this stick at $3

cost ratio: 1.05

cuba ratio: 0.98