WINNER ANNOUNCED!! List your Starting 5 Comp

[El Presidente]

What are your current championship 5 ? 🏀

• You have to pick a maximum 5 cigars that you own (CC or NC) 
• On form, they are the best performing cigars in your stable currently:    Dollar for dollar, pure satisfaction.....the best performing/most consistently satisying cigars that you can put on the court for yourself today.  Box codes if you have them but approximate year would be great. 
• Commentarty always welcome. 

All top 5's go into a draw for a 5'er picked by myself 

[Sub]

Tough choice but this has been the lineup recently:
RASS

Bolivar Royal Corona

Partagas Maduro 1

HDM Epicure 2

RYJ Wide Churchill 

[yossie]

Monte #4

PL MC

HU HC

RG PE

and ... Villiger's small cigars.

I have only them.

[RichG]

I have smoked at least five from each of these boxes and they have all treated me exceptionally well.

-Cohiba Secretos TPO Jan 18 

-Cohiba Siglo III BUP Aug 18 

-Cohiba Robusto MAR Feb 20 

-Partagas Shorts ASU Sep 19 

-Montecristo No. 5 ESL Sep 18

 

[havanaclub]

Upmann SW
Trinidad Esmeralda
CoRo
RASS
BBF

Goodnight that’s all she wrote!

Honourable mention to Lusi.


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[griller]

Serie E2

Connie A

Connie 1

Punch 48

Monte Especial #2

Thanks!

[benfica_77]

Cohiba Genios MAR NOV 19 

JL #2 MOL JUL 19 

RASS MOL ABR 19 

Trini Fundadores ASR SEP 19 

CORO ASR MAY 19 

Honourable mentions to UBM OCT 18 Connie A and Monte #4 UEB AGO 19 

As you can see 2019 is lights out! 

[JohnS]

Currently, it would have to be the following...

• Cohiba Siglo VI ARG Jun 2015
• Montecristo No.5 AUM Jul 2014
• Por Larranaga Montecarlos LGR Oct 2017
• Punch 48 LGR Oct 2018
• San Cristobal de la Habana El Principe TOS Oct 2016

[Bijan]

1. RGPC (SOM MAR 16)

2. Hoyo du Depute (18 and 19s)

3. CoRo (GOS ENE 18)

4, 5, 6 Partagas Serie du Connaisseur 1, 2, 3 (1999, 2000, 1998).

I guess that's 6, so scratch out the PSDC3.

[ChangBang]

From my spreadsheet looking like this in no particular order:  

1. HDM Epi 2 UBR ABR 19 
2. RAG ABO NOV 19
3. CORO BRE DIC 17
4. BRC TEB MAR 08
5. Dip2

 

[Çnote]

E2

Huhc

El principe

Plpc

Plmc

[Kevin48438]

RASS - MSU OCT 18.  Fabulous box.  Only a couple left that I’m kind of saving for a friend to verify they are special.  A have a few other boxes (different codes) that are also very nice, but just one notch below.  This box has made me a huge fan and I’ll be chasing them for a while.  My buddy better get here soon…

Monte 4 - I’m always down for one.  Mine are all ‘18-‘19.

Tatuaje Black Label Corona Gorda - I have old and new releases.  Awesome cigar

Rocky Patel Decade Robusto - One of the few Rockys I like all that much.

Padron Family Reserve 50 Natural - Get some

[Rhinoww]

Tough one, but here goes:

Boli PC

Party Short

RASC

Hoyo Petit Robusto

Coloniales 

honorable mention to BBF and Party 898. 
 

[Texwrangler]

Knock my socks off but (1) Parti shorts

2 RASS

3 Monti 4’s

4 Monti 2’s

5 Cohiba Siglo III

 

[Puros Y Vino]

• La Escepcions Selectos Finos (2011 RE)
• 2002 CoLa
• 2002 RA898
• 2004 LGC MdO No 4
• 2012 RyJ Cazadores

[jonnyfromiranny]

PSD4

EPI 2

Monte 2

BBF

HUHC

All box dates are '20 or '21

Would've put Lusi up there but rarely can find time to smoke them these days.

[dominattorney]

Upmann sir winston 2014  pound for pound the best thing in my humidor. I lie about not having any left when certain friends pop up. 

RA Gigante 2020. Best golf course cigar hands down. You don't have to pay attention to get it, but if you're paying attention it will surprise you. 

Fonseca no 1 2014. Cheap! At least compared to how it smoked. Great pickup on 2424. 

Trinidad fundador 2014. Need I say more? Must be smoked indoors or with minimal wind. Good contemplation companion. 

Montecristo especial 2012. Elegant substitute for those times when you feel nostalgic for a glass of chocolate milk. 

[Bri Fi]

1) Partagas Serie D4 SOU OCT 20

2) Partagas Serie P2 MSU SEP 18

3) Ramon Allones Superiores MSU ABR 18

4) HU Sir Winston TRU JUL 19

5) Padron 1964 Torpedo Maduro 

Below are some honorable mentions that could easily break the top three, but I’ve only had one out of each box. If they were as good as the first, then they are legendary. 

-Montecristo Edmundo UTO JUN 20

-Cohiba Esplenditos GRM AGO 20

-Cohiba Siglo VI MTS NOV 19

[GotYaGoat]

1. PLMC 

2. Reyes

3. Coloniales 

4. Monte 2

5. Lusi

[Thirdcoastwatch]

Michael Jordan: Cohiba Esplendidos 

Scottie Pippen: Monte 4 (MOB DIC 14)

Dennis Rodman: RASS

Ron Harper: HUHC (SOU NOV 19)

Toni Kukoc: Trinidad Fundadores

 

Steve Kerr 6th man award: Hoyo Epicure No2

[Trapper99]

In order 

Lusi - SOU NOV 20

Punch Punch - JUN 20

Epi 2 - TLU MAY 20

Reyes - TLU MAY 20

Monte 2 - EPM OCT 19

I have a box of Esplendidos, fundis, a box of 1998 Punch Monarcas I haven’t cracked open yet, but I imagine they would slide into this list.

[Wetduck79]

All mine are nc since the few cc I have are resting.

Arturo Fuente Double Chateau Sungrown 

padron 3000 maduro

601 blue label toro

fat bottom Betty toro 

la Gloria Cuban series r maduro

[sho671]

L’Atelier Surrogates Cracker Crumb (can't beat for under $3)

Vegueros Tapados (hard to beat at $4)

RyJ Short Churchill

Monte 2

Monte 4

[Meklown]

Monte 4. Have managed to score various aged boxes from 24:24. Current one I'm smoking through is a '16. 

QD 50. These are so popular the prices are going up. I need to restrain myself otherwise I will run out.

Nudies Carlota. Have probably a dozen left and hoping covid fecks off so we can get new batches.

Connie 1. Absolutely love these and still can be had for a reasonable price. 

Finally, plpc. Still to come of age but some sticks show the occasionally flash of caramel. I get it and I know I'm committing infanticide but at around $6 a smoke there is no better value. 

[rjake100]

Shorts LAT FEB 19

El Principe LGR JUN 17

PSD4 SOU OCT 20

MC4 UGR APR 20

PLMC LGR MAY 19