FOH International Blind Tasting Competition 2025 Cigar 5 Final Reveal and Winners!

[El Presidente]

 

 

To the winner (who can correctly select most cigars sent) A $1000 USD Gift voucher (AUD equivalent for locals). In the event of a tie, prize is split.

Of course the true prize is world cigar fame 

 

Well, cigar Number 5 took most of you by surprise. 

The Vegas Robaina Famoso is a favourite Robusto of mine but I suspect many of you have not had a great deal of experience with it. It certainly does deserve more love!  

What a great competition and thanks to all of you for participating. We had a two way tie for the win! Griller and EMC12 each recieve a $500 Gift voucher!* Congratulations to each of you. 4 out of 5 in a blind tasting is exceptional 

I look forward to the next one!

*gift voucher expires in 5 minutes. All communication to [email protected]

 

[JohnS]

Congratulations @griller and @EMC12. What a competition. It was a lot of fun, even just to follow!

[Li Bai]

Congratulations to both !!

[Dlowil]

4/5 is quite impressive! Congrats to @griller and @EMC12

[Bijan]

Congratulations @griller and @EMC12!

[99call]

Congratulations @griller and @EMC12,  thats some effort, incredibly impressive

[Ruggerpgh99]

4/5 is a spectacular result. Congrats to @griller and @EMC12. You are truly deserving of your prize here.

[Ruggerpgh99]

Is there any chance that the amazing FOH team could send me one of each of the bands from the competition to add to my collection?

[chasy]

Congrats!!!

Kicking myself for being 0/2 on coin flips!!

[Superhans]

Congratulations to the two winners. Excellent competition to be part of.

[rckymtn22]

Well done to the two winners! Another big thanks to Rob and the gang for another great contest.

[BlueWS]

Congrats boys! Now you only need to come up with $3,300 for that $3,800 box of BHK 56s!

[El Niño]

Congratulations boys!!!

COMPLETELY shocked that cigar 5 was a Famoso. I have a box from 22 that isn't anything like Cigar 5! It's amazing how these things change with age and vary from box-to-box!

[Chucko8]

Congrats on the win @griller & @EMC12 fantastic effort!

Very fun competition to be part of. Thanks again to Rob and the team for running the comp and bring the community together to enjoy and be humbled at the same time.

Special thanks to Lisa for fielding all the emails of guesses and collating.

[ryre]

Congrats to @griller & @EMC12! 

Thanks FOH team! That was fun and educational. 

[El Presidente]

49 minutes ago, BlueWS said:

Congrats boys! Now you only need to come up with $3,300 for that $3,800 box of BHK 56s!

Now $3,300  $3800 for that $3,800 $4300box of BHK 56s! 

[Chas.Alpha]

Ok, somehow I paid $160 dollars and now I have to lick a dog’s nut pouch.

More to follow…😳

[griller]

WOW, this is awesome and THANK YOU FOH for putting this blind tasting together and the extremely generous prize. I'm proof that "...a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut once in a while" LOL.

Congrats @EMC12 as well! Well done!

Now to decide how to blow a $500 FOH gift card. Maybe put it toward some Mag 50s, RyJ Churchills, PLPC Cabinet, or Punch Punch??? Never thought I'd EVER have this dilemma LOL!

Decisions, decisions... 

[Edicion]

Fun competition and congrats to the winners, outstanding performance. 

[MPhillips]

Congratulations @griller & @EMC12!!

[EMC12]

WOW, thanks everybody. Congrats to @griller hell of an exciting run! 

Thanks again FOH for the opportunity. This has been a blast.

[EMC12]

No better way to celebrate than smoking the one you missed!

[TacoSauce]

5 hours ago, EMC12 said:

No better way to celebrate than smoking the one you missed!

Interesting idea! Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me...

Congrats @griller and @EMC12! Impressive stuff.

[TheDonTX]

Congrats to the winners! What a fun ride. I loved it. Such a fun five weeks.

Huge thanks to FOH. I was thinking about the tedious task of removing all those bands and putting on new ones all without damaging the cigars. Job well done! 

[Montezüma]

Congratulations for the winners!! Amazing score in an amazing contest!