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[Islandboy]

Excellent La Trova Saturday evening. Mahalo @inter4alia!

Aloha Gang!

[Raskol]

C&C Time.

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[IanMcLean68]

 

HDM Des Dieux MER ABR13

Many thanks to @chr0nic (Ryan) for the very kind gift of this absolutely gorgeous Des Dieux!

Gifted to me by Ryan during the last great Sydney get together, whilst @ayepatz was here. What a great night! My liver has thankfully recovered.

Perfect draw and burn throughout with lots of smoke. Super smooth and creamy. Medium bodied throughout.

Lightly spiced cream, cedar, slightly tannic hard woods that remind me strongly of African Walnut (wood) and oak, and lashings of vanilla. Hints of floral and umami notes.

I love the creaminess, woodsy nature and vanilla forwardness of the Des Dieux. The aroma of this cigar is second to none. Has all the Le Hoyo trademark flavours, in what I believe the best balance and the most complex delivery of the Le Hoyo line.

Easily 96/100.

PS: It looks like Ryan hasn't logged into FOH for about 2 years. Perhaps this post can lure him back to the forum!

 

[SigmundChurchill]

Siglo VI

Sorry, forgot to take the pic when I started smoking.  This is a Vigia.

[SirVantes]

Immensas TEB AGO 08

[RubenF]

Had a CoRo yesterday that was a bit disappointing so felt like something consistently great. NC time. Padron 1964 diplomatico in natural. Always a classic

[Ciscojohansson]

Some recent aged smokes and the first time I  tried any of these cigars.

Monte no. 1 2006. Great creamy, smooth and slight chocolate flavour.

 

Partagas shorts 2014. Wow, what a cigar, I am buying a 50 cab. This is the perfect short smoke.

 

VR Don Alejandro 2007. My first DC and it was beautiful but the draw tightend in the last third. 

[Jonboy4074]

MSU FEB '19. Rob was dead on when he said these are smoking great fresh. Wonderful cigar.

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[Thirds]

16 hours ago, GeorgieP said:

Sitting I at my TJ apartment enjoying a Monte Linea listening to Bad Company. This - is - the best Monte I’ve ever had. Stay tuned for the rest of the smoke. Bought it as a single so unfortunately  can’t tell you the box code. 

Update: the first third was very good and typical Monte flavor. I thought it was going to die for a second about half ways through but it revived itself. Could have been that it was a little windy. Second third started to get a little pepper but still had a good chocolate nutty flavor. Aroma was great the whole ways through. Last third I started to get a funky burn and had to relight, of course more pepper but no bite. All in all, definitely worth it .

 

I was slated to play a round of golf with 3 other buddies just outside of graduating college.  One of my buddies got too drunk and didn’t show so the course paired us with a random single.  I was talking with the guy and asking him what brought him to town.  He said he was playing a concert that night and usually tried to get a round of golf in before they played.  I was thinking he was some small timer playing a local show so I pressed a little harder.  He said he was with Bad Company but assumed we were all too young to know who that was.  I said, are you kidding me?  I then belted out “I feel like making love.”  He got a huge smile on his face and we enjoyed the rest of the round. He took a taxi to the course and in exchange for a ride home he left us 4 tickets at will-call. 

My buddy Dan got hammered drunk and as a result I got to play a round of golf with Simon Kirke, the drummer for Bad Company.  I’ll take that trade all day long.  I gave him one of these tees to remember us by.  Ha! 

[ayepatz]

On 7/26/2019 at 9:09 PM, JohnS said:

Por Larrañaga Coronas 2017 - Edición Regional 5ta Avenida 2018 (thanks @ayepatz!)

5ta Avenida (or Quinta Avenida) is Spanish for 5th Avenue. It's also the name of the distributor of regional Edition cigars for Germany, Austria and Poland. This 2017 Por Larranaga Petit Coronas was released in September 2018 and this cigar came from the same box that Rob and Ken smoked from for their recent video review (thanks to our dear friend @ayepatz for gifting us these cigars), a review where they sang the praises of this latest release from 5ta Avenida.

If you are familiar with these releases from this distributor, then you'd know that the first three have been reputable - the La Gloria Cubana Glorias (2015), the Bolívar Tesoro (2016), the Por Larrañaga Coronas (2017). The fourth release, the upcoming 2018 Punch Preferidos is due sometime in 2019.

There are two things that I greatly admire about this release and they are the dimensions of the cigar and the packaging. Firstly, the cigar is a Coronas vitola at 42 ring gauge x 142 millimetres (or 5.6 inches). This vitola has been decimated in the last 20 years by Habanos S.A. There are only three left in regular production, the Montecristo No.3, Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe No.2 and the Quai d’Orsay Coronas Claro. Secondly, this comes in the classic 50 cab SLB; again, a packaging size that is no longer as prevalent as in the past.

The draw on this coronas was perfect and the cold draw had quality hay and barnyard notes. The cigar wrapper was a glorious Colorado claro, and it had a sheen and suppleness common to what I've seen on some Cohiba wrappers. The cigar screamed caramel and honey from the 'get-go' and it simply did not let up. I got this pronounced flavours well into the second third. Naturally the cigar got a little more intense in the last third, maybe a little more 'woody' but honestly, not that much.

Overall, it made me wonder how they got that much caramel and honey in a Por Larranaga at such an early stage of its development. By comparison, I would expect that I would need 3 more years of rest on my 5-year old Por Larranaga Petit Coronas 50 Cab to come close to matching it. If you are able to pick up a cab from this distributor, do so and without hesitation. What a wondrous smoking experience this was!

@JohnS, my dear pal, after all the amazing s**t that you have gifted me, I am happy that you enjoyed it so much! Cheers, Iain

[rod707]

Bishops Blend damn this is good!!

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[JohnS]

Vegas Robaina Famosos AEM May 2015

Vegas Robaina was introduced as a new marca in 1997 by Habanos S.A in honour of the famed tobacco grower, Alejandro Robaina. At the time the new marca came out with five vitolas; the Clásicos - 6½" × 42 rg (165 × 16.67 mm), a Lonsdale, the Don Alejandro - 7⅝" × 49 rg (194 × 19.45 mm), a Double Corona, the Familiar - 5⅝" × 42 rg (142 × 16.67 mm), a Corona, the Famosos - 5" × 48 rg (127 × 19.05 mm), a Hermoso No. 4,  and the Únicos - 6⅛" × 52 rg (156 × 20.64 mm), a Pirámide. A little over 20 years later and only the Famosos and Únicos remain as regular production cigars.

As a marca, Vegas Robaina doesn't tend to get the same accolades that other Habanos marcas enjoy, especially the global brands. For this reason, I was eager to call down my box of this Vegas Robaina Famosos from my OLH and see how they were coming along, particularly since my last Vegas Robaina cigar, a Don Alejandro from late '15 was so spectacular a few months ago.

This had that deep chocolate and raisin sweetness from the first few puffs, but soon it settled into a milder smoke. At the end of the first third I detected baking spice and funnily enough, grass...but not like Cohiba-type grass, I mean straight grass or pure tobacco. The cigar stayed this way until the end, so not quite one-dimensional but very interesting as a change-of-pace.

In summary, I'm not disposed to rate this Famosos favourably or unfavourably at this point until I smoke a few more to gain a comparison of what the average Famosos from this box is like. Until then I would reckon I will get a better gauge in knowing what to expect from this Famosos box currently aged a little over 4 years.

[inter4alia]

May 14.  Picked this up in a box pass from @patrick_harmon44.  I'm not generally an Hoyo fan, but this stick is excellent! 

[lovethehaze]

Erdm choix supreme 

 

Compliments of @MigsG smoking great with some coffee as I prep for the day. It’s like breakfast in a stick !! My first and def Not my last  El Principe much better than the La fuerzas I have been smoking  thanks 

[Deeg]

5 hours ago, CampDelta369 said:

El Principe Morning. DIC 17 smoking MED-Full right now. Cheers

Looks like one of the “dark side” Principes. Any spiciness on top of the usual palate?

[JayHabanos]

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[CampDelta369]

4 minutes ago, Deeg said:

Looks like one of the “dark side” Principes. Any spiciest on top of the usual palate?

No not really. I had a plug to deal with on this one so the burn and smoke volume was not on par with first several from this PSP box. Flavor was stronger than usual and a bit out of balance. Still one of my favorite minutos.

[Wookie]

Too lazy to write an outcast review, but I vouch for this 2015 Regio


2017 Vigia...these have been consistent performers....Trinidad complexity and perfect construction.



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[Balboa]

21 year-old Vegueros no. 1

Still tasty 

 

[FHFinster]

‘17, They are starting to shine

Less than 2yrs? Fanstastic.

Took 4.5years for these guys to go from painfully strong to delicious. And of course, that’s my last one.

Got some ‘14 No1 that I haven’t touched in a while. Fingers crossed!




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[Kaptain Karl]

Grabbed this jul ‘17 siglo III from a recent box pass and it didn’t disappoint! It began with the hay/grassiness and morphed into rich honeyed cream heaven in the last 2/3rds. The wrapper was a discolored Colorado wrapper but it didn’t seem to affect the flavor much. A 92 pointer for me and will definitely pick up a box in the next year! 

[THEMISCHMAN]

Yesterday. A well rested Añejo Shark from 2014 while smoking some ribs for dinner. I’m not a big Fuente guy but this was good.


Today. ESL NOV 18 Monte No. 1. Perfect burn but a lousy draw. Finally, got a piece of tobacco out of it about halfway through and the draw improved a little. Very grassy with a slight bit of coffee. Gonna leave the rest alone for a while.

[Rupe]

Cheap and cheerful tonight with a JLP Cremas

[havanaclub]

Siglo VI

Sorry, forgot to take the pic when I started smoking.  This is a Vigia.

What a beauty view Elliot !


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