This week on Lounge Lizards: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Solita Red with twelve year aged Knob Creek Single Malt/postponement of the Habanos Festival/future of Cuban tobacco

[El Presidente]

 

This week the Lizards pair the Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Solita Red with twelve year aged Knob Creek Single Malt Scotch Whiskey. The guys discuss the supposed postponement of the Habanos Festival, they debate the future of Cuban tobacco and they share the importance of cigar lounge and shop owner hospitality. PLUS: Successfully Joining a Lounge, Great Cigars You Don't Reach For, Plasencia Barn Fire, Listener Humidity Aligning with Pod Review Humidity, Consistent Humidity for Smoking, More Lizard X/Wife Detail & More

 

[GP012]

Mr Wrappuador just needs to bring back the Bouchard chocolates when he's smoking the Solita and desiring sweet satisfaction.

[JohnInCleveland]

Love the show. A couple of months ago I commented on how the guys need to smoke their special stock (white whales) more often and do some on the pod, and was (mostly) disagreed with.

The boys then spent an extended period of time talking about what to do with their cigars in their estate planning, and how they’d like their friends to smoke their cigars and not have them go to waste.

News flash boys, nothing is guaranteed in this life. Smoke 'em if you’ve got em with your friends and loved ones while you still can.  

(And record the experience on your pod for my amusement)

[Cigar Surgeon]

My friend and now Drew Estate employee coined a GOAT week in January more than a decade ago. 

It was a week where you would only smoke unicorns. I still do this, and I recommend others do too. 

[Lucas Buck]

24 minutes ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

My friend and now Drew Estate coined a GOAT week in January more than a decade ago. 

It was a week where you would only smoke unicorns. I still do this, and I recommend others do too. 

Love it. I’m gonna do this. Maybe my birthday week. 

[LizardGizmo]

8 hours ago, JohnInCleveland said:

Love the show. A couple of months ago I commented on how the guys need to smoke their special stock (white whales) more often and do some on the pod, and was (mostly) disagreed with.

The boys then spent an extended period of time talking about what to do with their cigars in their estate planning, and how they’d like their friends to smoke their cigars and not have them go to waste.

News flash boys, nothing is guaranteed in this life. Smoke 'em if you’ve got em with your friends and loved ones while you still can.  

(And record the experience on your pod for my amusement)

It does seem that between your note, the email response to it, and the difficulty getting Cubans in the US that reaching into our humidors is going to be the new norm...

While I was sensitive of smoking white whales more often in the past - due to the inability for the listener to get them - I think that ship has to sail. I also think most listeners agree with your feeling that the inability to acquire a specific cigar doesn't make the episode less interesting.

6 hours ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

My friend and now Drew Estate employee coined a GOAT week in January more than a decade ago. 

It was a week where you would only smoke unicorns. I still do this, and I recommend others do too. 

This is awesome! Great idea John

 

[BigGuns]

I can’t believe you guys let Rooster’s subtle “I would go to more” comment about gift bags at wakes/funerals slide like that! 😆😂🤣

[JohnInCleveland]

5 hours ago, BigGuns said:

I can’t believe you guys let Rooster’s subtle “I would go to more” comment about gift bags at wakes/funerals slide like that! 😆😂🤣

Good catch I thought the same thing.

19 hours ago, LizardGizmo said:

It does seem that between your note, the email response to it, and the difficulty getting Cubans in the US that reaching into our humidors is going to be the new norm...

While I was sensitive of smoking white whales more often in the past - due to the inability for the listener to get them - I think that ship has to sail. I also think most listeners agree with your feeling that the inability to acquire a specific cigar doesn't make the episode less interesting.

This is awesome! Great idea John

I wasn’t really disagreeing with you Giz, more busting everyone’s chops a little, but the greater point is to not put off smoking your good stock because of the uncertainty in this world.  

I say this as someone who has hoarded some REALLY cool stuff over the years (primarily from @El Presidente), who has to force myself to find more special occasions.  

When I hear of a cigar smoker passing and hear of what they left behind, all I think about is the missed opportunities those cigars represent.  You can’t take em with you.  That’s all.  

No time like the present…

[ha_banos]

59 minutes ago, JohnInCleveland said:

I wasn’t really disagreeing with you Giz, more busting everyone’s chops a little, but the greater point is to not put off smoking your good stock because of the uncertainty in this world.  

I say this as someone who has hoarded some REALLY cool stuff over the years (primarily from @El Presidente), who has to force myself to find more special occasions.  

When I hear of a cigar smoker passing and hear of what they left behind, all I think about is the missed opportunities those cigars represent.  You can’t take em with you.  That’s all.  

No time like the present…

Is there such a thing as cigar smokers regret? I look back at all the singles I've been through and wish I had some more of a lot of those. I've still got some interesting singles to get through. But I can't help the forgone regret. That's making me pause smoking the one offs that remain. Oh woe is me!!

[NYGuido]

19 hours ago, ha_banos said:

Is there such a thing as cigar smokers regret?

The only regrets I have are when I didn’t quit a crappy stick soon enough and missed out on time that could’ve been spent enjoying something rather than fighting it. 

[TommySnark]

On 3/5/2026 at 8:22 AM, JohnInCleveland said:

Love the show. A couple of months ago I commented on how the guys need to smoke their special stock (white whales) more often and do some on the pod, and was (mostly) disagreed with.

The boys then spent an extended period of time talking about what to do with their cigars in their estate planning, and how they’d like their friends to smoke their cigars and not have them go to waste.

News flash boys, nothing is guaranteed in this life. Smoke 'em if you’ve got em with your friends and loved ones while you still can.  

(And record the experience on your pod for my amusement)

Listening to the episode, I was thinking the exact same thing - rather than using the tragic passing as motivation to create a cigar estate plan, maybe use that event to encourage more consumption of your most treasured smokes. Make a regular event of it, either alone or with friends. A carpe diem session, as it were. I think it’s human nature to assume there’s some great day in the future, when the cigars will all be perfectly aged and a momentous occasion warrants it, but that day may never come. Smoke them now, and there’s no chance your wife’s new husband gets to smoke your cigars. 

[El Niño]

On 3/8/2026 at 12:59 AM, NYGuido said:

The only regrets I have are when I didn’t quit a crappy stick soon enough and missed out on time that could’ve been spent enjoying something rather than fighting it

^^^^^^

Life is too short not to enjoy your stick. I find it fun to put down a cigar that I'm not enjoying in a weird way.