Blend your ideal cigar

[El Presidente]

We were taking about this yesterday over a few bottles of red and a some quite excellent Punch Regionals.

If you were in the position to blend your own cigar for your own consumption. You had the Havana factories on call.

1. Pick the Vitola you would blend.

2. Choose two flavour profiles from existing cigars you would merge.

3. State the body and flavour objective you are trying to achieve.

An example (my personal preference).

1. Dalia

2. Partagas 898 Varnished & Upmann Sir Winson

3. Body: Medium Full. Seeking the richness and menacing darkness of the 898 Varnished with the smoothness and vanilla cream highlights of the Sir Winston. A cigar which is the equivalent of Black Forest Cake.

[Colt45]

I could easily live with and would love your choice, but to be a bit different:

1. Dalia - could also go with Julieta2 or Corona Gorda

2. Ramon Allones Small Club Corona and Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No.1

3. Medium / medium full in body. The raisin/stewed fruit and structure of the RASCC mixed with the spiced amaretto cream of the HdM Epicure 1.

I won't call this my absolute ideal, but I wouldn't mind smoking it.

[Don Candido]

1) Hermoso No.2

2) Ramon Allones Specially Selected & Cohiba Piramides EL 2006 (can I use an LE in this game?)

3) This is all pretty abstract to me, but I would be going for a full bodied cigar. I really don't know how to imagine how blends will taste. I am guessing it will either blend or clash. Heavy fruits and broad flavors of RASS layered with the tangy, sharp flavor style of the Piramide.

[Claudius]

1. Dalia

2. Partagas 898 Varnished & Ramon Allones 898

3. Body: Full. Seeking the Partagas leather along with RA's spice and fruit.

[asmith]

A cigar which is the equivalent of Black Forest Cake.

Gee I bet you never hear that when people are describing cakes.

"Yes I will take three layers of sponge, some extra thick cream, a dash of cinnamon and layer them up, I tell you Judy this cake will be the equivalent to a an 03 Cohiba Esplendido!"

[Don Candido]

Gee I bet you never hear that when people are describing cakes.

"Yes I will take three layers of sponge, some extra thick cream, a dash of cinnamon and layer them up, I tell you Judy this cake will be the equivalent to a an 03 Cohiba Esplendido!"

You forgot to ask for extra ligero between the layers of sponge...

[shrink]

1. Laguito No. 1

2. Cohiba Lancero & Por Larranaga Magnifico

3. Body: Medium. I'd like the elegance and "vanilla" creaminess of the Lancero, spiced up with some richer "caramel" elements.

Who wouldn't like some vanilla Häagen-Dazs ice cream drizzled with warm caramel syrup?

[shrink]

1. Dalia

2. Partagas 898 Varnished & Ramon Allones 898

3. Body: Full. Seeking the Partagas leather along with RA's spice and fruit.

Bravo! This would be "over the top" in terms of spice and complexity. A cigar that would take at least ten years to achieve balance and integration. But then, it would be off the friggin' hook.

[trumpetchris]

1. Lancero

2. Sir winston and RyJ Cazadores

3. Body: full, but creamy. Nice core tobacco flavor, with a hint of spice and creaminess. A Chai tea of a cigar.

[Van55]

I don't know what the hell I would get, but if I could try infusing a Bolivar Corona Gigante with the Por Larranaga caramel sweetness....

Churchill size

Medium to strong intensity

Sweet caramel underneath the earthy Bolivar character.

Or

Alternatively, a VR Unicos with a Por Larranaga Lonsdale might yield a cigar Milky Way bar in a Pirimide size and shape.

[Spartan]

Two of my faves rolled into one!!

1. Robusto

2. Cohiba Genios 5 & Montecristo No. 2

3. Body: Full. dark, rich & creamy. a cigar the equivalent of a Chocolate Macchiato with double shot of expresso!! OMG!!!

Or so I would hope!

[mkz]

1. Mareva (my favourite size)

2. Punch Petit Corona & Montecristo #4

3. Sweet fudge with strong wood. Full body.

[anacostiakat]

Nothing much to add to Claudius and Rob's comments. Both are excellent choices that I can not improve upon.

[Mr. Japan]

1) Dalia

2) Ramon Allones Estupendos & H.Upmann Sir Winston

3) Sweet start with medium body and only last third full strenght. Mix of fruits and vanilla with spicy end.

[Bill Hayes]

1. corona gorda

2. BBF & SLR DC

3. Meduim body - Macadamia nuts with leather and spice

what a great thread, can't help myself

0r

1. Petite Corona

2. Partagas Corona & Trini Reyes

3. Medium - Oily, stewed fruit, wood and cream

Ahhhh...I've gone mad...just make mine 2003 Chohiba DC's and be done with it.

[scroggers]

I would like a corona extra cigar

I would blend a cohiba secretos with a Parti 898

Not sure if it would be good but I would like to just use the wrapper of the secretos on the 898 to have a kind of spicy cocoa falvor???

[El Presidente]

Interestingly....... members apear to be seeking in the main Medium full richer sweeter cigars.

The Magnum 50 falls very much into this profile.

Keep up the good work Punch Joe

[SamuraiJack]

SLR Regios and Monte No 4 = ripe fruit, cream, silky, refined, with a slight dusting of spices and cocoa.