"Mate, I am picking you up in 15 minutes"

[El Presidente]

Following on from the "Travel and Go" thread. 

Assume you had a friend call up today and said “Mate,  I am picking you up in 15 minutes for a lad’s weekend away. Bring 10 cigars”

Brilliant! You have the time. Your wife is all for it or your girlfriend is away. OK maybe both. 

You reach for your 10 stick Otter box and open the humidor. What are you choosing?

10 cigars only....welcome to double up....you must have them in your humidor. 

[fisherclive]

2 Nudies N1

2 Plasencia Alma Fuetre 

1 Fuente Anejados 

1 RASS

1 Viaje private keep lemon 

1 NBK Lizard King

2 Cohiba Robusto 

 

[HarveyBoulevard]

E2

D4

La Fuerza

Monte DE

Monte PE

Esmeralda

Topes

JL2

BBF

Coloniales

[RDB]

Two each of:

- D4 

- Monte 1

- CoRo

- Ex4

- La Fuerza? Picadores? Regios? Or whatever wildcard takes my fancy.

[DaBoot]

Double up on

D4

BBF

TRINIDAD REYES

RASSC

BPC

nothing fancy, good ol smokes

[TBird55]

2 JL 2 

2 Esplendidos 

2 Punch Punch

2 Lusitanias

2 H Upmann  #2

[Chibearsv]

1 - Punch 8-9-8

1 - Nudies 1 Rosado

1 - Esplendidos 

1 - RyJ Cazzy

2 - HU2

2 - BPC

2 - Monte 3

I know where these all are, so no time wasted hunting for them.

 

 

[Chas.Alpha]

2 of each:

Monte #2

JL2

BPC

Nudie N1 Maduro

Lusi

And I'd bring 1 Punch DC, just to see how they're coming along.

[gustavehenne]

Padron 1926 No. 1 (1x Natural, 1 x Maduro)

Padron Family Reserve No. 45 Maduro

Fuente Fuente Opus X Double Corona

Ashton ESG 20-year Salute

ERDM Choix Supreme (x2)

Vegas Robaina Don Alejandro

Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona

Cohiba Piramides Extra

 

[Islandboy]

I was in a similar real-life drill a couple Fridays back - spent the evening at a buddy’s place (recently divorced - but not TOO recently, lol). I brought the cigars and rum, he’s a damn fine amateur chef. We both have a keen eye for quality.

I brought a pair each of:

’07 SLR DC

’06 RA Estupendo

And a bottle of 15 year El Dorado rum.

A fine time was had, and the cigars paired elegantly with the food and drink. Oh, and, no driving was involved ‘till the next day. 

 

[SMELTZ]

Cohiba Esplendido

Cohiba Piramides Extra

Partagas Lusi

Punch DC

Ramon Allones Gigantes

Nudies N1 Rosado

Fuente Fuente Opus Forbidden X Robusto

Cohiba Robusto

Ramon Allone Libertador

Grand Finale - H. Upmann Sir Winston 

[Paladin865]

The ten I would bring 

Cohiba Robusto.                      Diplomatos #2 

Montecristo #2.                        Bolivar Royal Corona 

Partagas D 4.                               Por Larranaga Galanes q

Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchill.  Ramon Allones Superiores 

H Upmann Magnum 50.               Punch Punch 

 

 

[vladdraq]

2 big Cohibas for the first night....the rest doesn't really matter. Not sure i would remember anyways.

[dominattorney]

10 won't do it because a lads weekend means 4 guys. But I'll play. 

4x nudie N1

4x monte no 2

2x partagas Culebra because I like cheating 

[Wfriar]

2 PLMC 

2 D4

2 Monte 2 

2 Short de Punch

2 Dip Nortenos

[Cigar-Therapy]

2 x Sobremesa Brûlée Doble Corona

2 x H. Upmann Connie 2

2 x Partagas Lusitania

2x Partagas Serie P No. 2

2x  Ashton Aged Maduro no. 60 (Churchill)

[wathabanos]

Depends on the crowd, but if it's the best friend/mate, then as follows:

2X Hoyo Petit Robustos

2X H Upmann Mag 54

2X CohRos

2X Monte #2 

2X Cohiba Corona Esp.

If it's just a so-so/just met the guy last week mate? 10 pack of Gurkha's or 5 Vegas Robustos will do nicely 🤣🤣🤣

[Rhinoww]

So my assumption is one mate for the weekend. I do enjoy smoking the same thing at the same time to compare notes. 
 

so here goes in no particular order, with a pair of each, much of which is in my regular rotation except the E2:

Hoyo DC

Party E2

Party 898

Boli PC

RASCC

I know where my open box of each is located and this list would give a variety of time and flavor profiles over a weekend. 
 

In retrospect I probably should put a Robusto in the lineup, perhaps a RASS/ERDM Chiox/Regios in lieu or the RASCC.  

 

[Rhinoww]

2 hours ago, Islandboy said:

I was in a similar real-life drill a couple Fridays back - spent the evening at a buddy’s place (recently divorced - but not TOO recently, lol). I brought the cigars and rum, he’s a damn fine amateur chef. We both have a keen eye for quality.

I brought a pair each of:

’07 SLR DC

’06 RA Estupendo

And a bottle of 15 year El Dorado rum.

A fine time was had, and the cigars paired elegantly with the food and drink. Oh, and, no driving was involved ‘till the next day. 

 

You had me at SLR DC. 

[MossybackR]

4 hours ago, DaBoot said:

Double up on

D4

BBF

TRINIDAD REYES

RASSC

BPC

nothing fancy, good ol smokes

Yes.

[GVan]

Just did this about a month ago but it was 40 cigars - that's even harder and requires some thought!  In 15 minutes the ten easy picks that are all in my normal rotation right now would be:

2 - JL2's (UTL SEP-19)

2- HdM Epi 2's (REG DIC-18)

2- SCdlH Principi's (LGR JUN-17)

2 - Boli CJs (MSU JUL-19)

2 - Monte 2's (MSU NOV-18)

That about covers the water front as far as flavors, what's smoking well now and the time committment to smoke.

[rcarlson]

A vacation with the boys?  Gotta mix.

Sittin' and trash-talking 5er:

Punch Punch 21-22

RASS (same)

Connie 1 (same)

JL1 (same)

Monte 3 (same or earlier)

 

Post-prandial sittin' and trash-talking 5er:

Sacred Cow Stick -- whateves been holding too long (YOLO)

Esplendido (pre 2008)

Esmeralda

Sir Winnie

Connie A

 

 

[hrs1]

Pulled this together last minute for a boy's weekend this summer:

(Ignore the extra Churchill thrown in for reasons unknown)

Every time a scenario like this comes up, the cigar gods make me pull together something different than before.

[Lomey]

Punch Punch

Mag#46

BPC

Monte #2

Epi 2

Nudie N3 Rosado

Monte #4

RyJ Wide Churchill

Party short

Key West custom rolled lancero Habano wrapper

 

[mprach024]

2 Lusis

3 Monte 2s

4 Mag 46

1 Esmeralda