yossie Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Cigar of the year by Cigar aficionado has been released today, So, What's your cigar of the year?
aavkk Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Since I have maybe smoked a total of 3 or 4 cigars with an 08 box code Im not qualified to respond on that. Are we talking the single best cigar we smoked or a particular vitola that we most enjoyed? If the latter, MY cigar of the year would have to be the POS FEB 07 RASCC, runner up goes to PLM FEB 07 Siglo IV's. If the former it would have to be the 2 LLN AGO 03 Siglo VI's I smoked. Both were the 2 best cigars I have smoked in 08.
FireDigger Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 I just glanced at ten through six on CA's Top 25 of 2008 and there are two Habanos? You don't say! As for me, my favorite cigar of the year has to be.... Partagas Lusitania. It's out of a 3-pack so I don't have the date code.
bassman Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 The only cigar with an 08 box code I've smoked is a single Cuaba Piramides. My favorite cigar during 08 has been multiple codes of 06 BCEs. Simply spended earthy cigars.
Rogers72 Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 My understanding is that CA doesn't base the year's CC's on the box code date but whatever cigars are widely and commercially available during 08...typically everything released and reviewed by CA in 08 would be 07's and 08's with maybe some 06's thrown in. My number one is the Partagas 898V (based on a couple of different codes and months from 07)
perfectform Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Best 08 cigar smoked last year...Montecristo No. 2 GAS ENE 08 Best overall cigar smoked in 08...HdM Piramides EL 2003...
terrantheman Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 The best cigar that I had the pleasure of smoking for the year of 2008 actually qualifies for the box code if that's what we're talking about but it was also the most memorable cigar and it was the new H. Upmann Mag 50 just a splendid cigar for me....................................................................YEAH!
Habanos2000 Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 I'll second the vote on the Upmann Mag 50. Pretty damn good right out of the gate.
kilroy Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 I just glanced at ten through six on CA's Top 25 of 2008 and there are two Habanos? You don't say! I saw this this morning and saw the R&J Short Churchill on there and just HAD to fire one up. Its not my cigar of the year, but its in the top 10: 3) Partagas SDC #2 2) PSD4 1) RASS I had an '02 or 04 the other week... glorious... dont let my Partagass hear me say that!
PartagasIV Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 3) Partagas SDC #2 I have only sampled 06 and 07s of these, but they have become a go-to smoke and a favorite of mine as well.
mef Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 G'day Yossie, Mine cigars of the year are:- 1. Hamlet Shaggy 2. Upmann 50 (2008) 3. Cohiba Siglo VI (2007) and closely followed by RL Por Larranaga Robusto Go to cigars, soldiers of the humidor are:- 1. PLPC 2. Partagas Shorts 3. Trinidad Reyes mef
yossie Posted January 7, 2009 Author Posted January 7, 2009 Opps. I forgot listing mines. My cigar of the year are siglo2 and RAE!
anacostiakat Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Cigar of the year by Cigar aficionado has been released today, So, What's your cigar of the year? The 08 SIG VIs I tried I thought were very good and showed enormous potential. Those and my MAG 50s are all I have so far and I have not touched the MAG 50s.
Guest rob Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 '08 partagas 898V. Nothing else even comes close. Except maybe '08 CoRo or Mag50
habanohal Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 08 H. Upmann Mag 50 Followed bu 2000 HDM Epic 2
SethG Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Well, excluding the crazy rare stuff like the book humidor etc.... I would say the Montecristo Sublime, which every one I have had has just been amazing. Next up would be the Cuaba Piramide, who knew they could make a cigar like that? Followed by the Upmann Robusto, which is dwindiling in supply.
El Presidente Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 I would have to say that I was most pleasantly and consistently surprised in 08 by the Magnum 50. Others were the Punch Petit Corona, Cohiba Robusto and the Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure two (excluding yesterdays poor showing). These three were my surprise packets for 08. Of course there are others I also reach for and are favourites but these three cigars pushed their way into my rotation and did so with a rocket.
audio1der Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Cigar of the year by Cigar aficionado has been released today, So, What's your cigar of the year? Hands-down, a Reinaldo (custom rolled) lancero. Simply Outstanding.
dragon Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Including much of what's already been mentioned, I've really enjoyed the '08 Trini Colonials.
brutusthebuckeye Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 CA released there #1 cigar of the year.....drumroll please......Casa Magna robusto....all you guys are going to run out and get some and they'll be all gone.....What a fu<kin joke.....
jonesy107 Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Like a few others have mentioned, the '08 H. Upmann Mag 50 was the best cigar I smoked last year.
yossie Posted January 9, 2009 Author Posted January 9, 2009 CA released there #1 cigar of the year.....drumroll please......Casa Magna robusto....all you guys are going to run out and get some and they'll be all gone.....What a fu<kin joke..... CA is an American magazine.. That's all..
terrantheman Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 I have also really enjoyed the 08 trini coloniales very good cigar IMHO
Ken Gargett Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 i know naming custom rolled cigars really doesn't help most members of this forum but at the very end of our havana trip, in early 08, the other guys all took off homeward. i had a few more hours at the airport as i was going the long way via spain for a week or two. as per usual when stuck at this airport, i took myself to the little area upstairs, out of the way. i had a fantastic book - 'sacred games', a beer or two, and lit up a large hamlet. i love hamlet's cigars - if i had one criticism it is that occasionally they are way too young but that is hardly his fault. of all the hamlet's i have smoked, this one was the pick. it was one of, if not the greatest cigar i have ever tried. just glorious. no doubt would have improved even more though i have to wonder how it could. a couple o hours of absolute heaven. second, i think the monte sublimes we tried pre release in havana. more recently, though they just fall into this year, was the cohiba esplendido i mentioned recently on the forum and a glorious bolivar gigantes from 2004 i had a few nights ago. stunning.
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