FOH'ers Daily Smoke

[daleighan]

Mag 50

[Habana Mike]

  On 5/22/2020 at 10:01 PM, torsion said:

El Rey del Mundo, Choix du Roi.
Been forever since I posted here

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Miss you Don. Hope all's well across the pond!

 

[JayHabanos]

D4


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[Hotboxx]

UAO 2017 E2. Last time I smoked one of these I said it was a La corona factory of course these are El Laguito.  I didn’t bother to look at all the expert responses who corrected me.  I know what the F I have. BTW these don’t suck. 

[Ej456]

[Astar20]

Monte #2 with some Stagg Jr batch 9 Monte is big cocoa biscuit with the Stagg Jr is a cherry bomb!!! Great pair 

[Theophilus]

Ramon Allones-Specially Selected TOR DIC ‘16

[StogieSteve23]

I know there's a lot of haters out there but I'm a big fan of the hard seltzers.  Especially on a hot 90 degree afternoon.  Pairing with a TPO NOV-18 Rio Seco. 

Watching a glorious sun shower and enjoying a delicious MC with my Nespresso.  Have a great day everyone! 

Fiancé and I rode our bikes to my grandparents.  Enjoying a delicious Chuck before a few afternoon storms roll in. This thing is reaaaallly good.. 

Breakfast. I hope everyone has an excellent Sunday! 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Partagas Short 

 

[ha_banos]

Too many cigars this month ? 2008 Mercaderes.

Tapacrap says! How dare you!

[bigbwalls]

 

Juan Lopez #2 - Jan 18

[HDGSN]

Juan Lopez No. 1 MOL JUN 17

[SigmundChurchill]

Wild Turkey, paired with a Monte Leyenda.

[TheFullMontecristo]

Epi1 w rum punch

[JohnS]

Cohiba Robustos MUO May 2014

I surprised myself when I looked at my Cuban Cigar Website inventory and noted that I have had 18 Cohiba Robustos in the last three-and-a-half years. Upon closer inspection, it proved to be closer to 12 as I have given six away to share in that time. Of those 12, in an overall rating system out of five I had given 4 CoRos three marks, 6 CoRos four marks and 2 CoRos five marks. That's an average of 3.83 marks out of 5. How can one describe that average in words? Possibly 'dependable' would suffice.

The interesting note about my Cohiba Robustos consumption in the last few years is that it was across a number of box codes, the box code of today's CoRo has been excluded as they have been sitting in my humidor aging. So, it was a delight to pull one out of my humidor to smoke today.

The flavours from the cold draw were an inviting cedar, baking spice and refined barnyard. The initial flavours of the draw in the first third were exemplary; mocha coffee, buttered cream, honey and spice with plumes of smoke. I was thinking at this point of the cigar, "what else could one want from this cigar?"

In the meantime, I reflected on how Robustos came to be so popular in modern trends. There was once a time when Simon Chase commented in an interview with Nic Wing in 2015 that the Partagas Serie D No.4 sold a total of 5000 boxes in the mid-eighties worldwide. Even up to that point there were only four, yes four Robusto (i.e. 50 ring gauge x 124 mm or 4⅞ inches in length) vitolas available. These were the Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No.2, the Bolivar Royal Coronas, the Partagas Serie D No.4 and the Ramon Allones Specially Selected. The Cohiba Robustos itself wasn't released until 1989. Soon after, the Juan Lopez Seleccion No.2 was released in the early-90s. No, it wasn't until the 2000s that Robustos started to get more popular. In the 1980s and prior they were just thought of as very large ring gauge cigars, an anomaly, if you will.

Today, Cohiba Robustos simply sell. I would say they would be amongst the very highest selling Cohiba vitolas, and I think this can be gleaned from their availability recently when other in-demand Cohiba cigars such as the Behike line and the Cohiba Siglo VI have been in hiatus. In the last decade the Partagas Serie D No.4 has via communal consensus moved past the Montecristo No.4 as the number one selling Habanos cigar in the world today.

As I approached the middle third, the cigar still had those mocha coffee, buttered texture and a touch of spice notes joined by some hints of honey sweetness and lemon citrus too. The retrohale was nice and refined in the middle third too. The construction was spot-on, ash lengths were long and the ridging on the ash was consistent.

Coming into the final third of the cigar, I reflected on the quintessential Habanos cigar in terms of size. In the 1970s and 80s, it was definitely the coronas, a 42 ring gauge x 142 mm vitolas with each marca having one. Today only the Montecristo No.3, Quai d'Orsay Coronas Claro and Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe No.2 are left in regular production. After this the petit corona (or should I say, marevas?) a 42 ring gauge x 129 mm vitola became more prominent, perhaps as result of the popularity of the Montecristo No.4. The trend towards larger ring-gauged cigars with the streamlining of Habanos S.A post-2000 saw 50 ring gauge robustos become more popular. In 2020, I feel we've come near to full-circle with the idea of the quintessential size as the petit robustos, ranging in size from around 4 to 4¾ inches or 102 to 120 mm in length seeing a plethora of releases across all Habanos marcas in the last five to ten years. After all, it was only around fifteen years ago that the Hoyo de Monterrey Petit Robustos (2004) and Montecristo Petit Edmundo (2006) was released to market.

The final third only reinforced the exceptional nature of the cigar throughout the first two-thirds. This was the third Cohiba Robustos to receive an overall rating of five in my Cuban Cigar Inventory. The irony is, I can only see these getting better with a little more age, especially in regards to its buttered texture.

[inter4alia]

TES Nov 16. I've had 6 from this box so far. They just don't float my boat. 

Esmeralda gifted by @lovethehaze. I think I'm going to have to find a box of these. Thanks, brother! 

[Smalls]

2012 Serie D No. 4

[lovethehaze]

  On 5/24/2020 at 9:31 PM, inter4alia said:

Esmeralda gifted by [mention=32986]lovethehaze[/mention]. I think I'm going to have to find a box of these. Thanks, brother! 

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They are definitely worth their price of admission. Glad u liked it brother !


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[Monocle]

1-20 Reynaldo Robusto. Though I know a little more down time is warranted, I just can’t keep my hands off them. I’m pretty sure I’ve sampled every regular release CC robusto at this point, and Rey’s is the best to me. I love the graham cracker and ginger snap undertone I find in his rolls. Perfect construction with plentiful smoke and rarely a touch up needed. While Alex’s, La China’s, and Club Habana sticks I got on the same trip are all more visually appealing, none currently smoke anywhere near as lovely as Rey’s. I can’t help but smelling my mustache and fingers for hours after smoking them. 

 

[armada_crew]

A few relaxing after yard work.

 

[jvd1291]

HDM Epicure No.2!

[MigsG]

Early ‘18Siglo II, my last. These Off the bat starting out with what could be a butterscotch flavor. 
 

[Monocle]

  On 5/25/2020 at 12:12 AM, MigsG said:

Early ‘18Siglo II, my last. These Off the bat starting out with what could be a butterscotch flavor.

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Sounds wonderful! Lovely day in the Bay for a Cohiba.

[VRATJV07]

Nice draw and lots of smoke output.  Very nice.  Paired with a tropical IPA.  Happy Memorial Day weekend!

[MigsG]

  On 5/25/2020 at 12:17 AM, Monocle said:

Sounds wonderful! Lovely day in the Bay for a Cohiba.

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It sure is, neighbor! Beautiful summer like weather.