The Official Cigar Thread

[kydsid]

Advil - You know your smokes. Its the Don Carlos. A box was gifted to me. Yes I must have really good friends cause for the life of me I don't think I'm that good of a friend, ha!

I have heard the same thing but will try the carlito - not a box though at its price!

[Advil]

Yeah I'm sure the Carlito is a great smoke, just not a 20 dollar smoke. I have three Casa Fuente Corona Gordas on my hands that I'm very, very excited to light up. They've got a few months of age on them, I probably won't light one up til June.

I like your avatar, are you an Anon? Or just a fan of the movie?

[kydsid]

Hadn't heard of the Casa Fuente, but then again unless its a spectacular smoke I forget very easily what I have had and haven't had.


As for the avatar more of a fan of Guy Fawkes and how he seems to survive in culture to this day.


-In Quintum Novembris

[Advil]

Oh the Casa Fuente is supposed to be a Spectacular smoke! You can only get them at the Casa Fuente store in Vegas. Nowhere else in the world! No online retailers are allowed to have them either. So they're hard to come by.

You should search around for reviews and info. It's supposed to be an amazing smoke.

Vitolas - Information

[kydsid]

I will remember that since I will be in Vegas next monday! Thanks for the heads up

[Zarathustra19]

Thread necromancer here. I just picked up a few sticks the other day, got an Oliva Serie V, Serie O, and a Padron 1964 Principe. I also picked up a few cheap smokes (2.50 a piece) which I can't quite remember the name of (something like dos dias), and they don't have bands on them, but they're very good for an everyday smoke. I'll try to get the name and post it here if anyone's interested. I also went out yesterday and got a Rocky Patel "The Edge". I can't recall the size of that...I'm pretty scatterbrained today. Anyway, the Rocky was amazing, and I'll be picking more of those up after the cash starts coming in from my new job.

Cheers everyone!

[Zarathustra19]

Hey all,
I just want to put this out there as a kind of warning review for anyone who might come across this cigar, which I found to be quite...lackluster.

Tatuaje Cabaiguan "Belicosos Finos"

Wrapper: Connecticut Shade Leaf seed grown in Ecuador
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Nicaraguan

Length: 5 1/2 inches
Ring: 52

Price: ~$9.00

From the Tatuaje website:
"Blended in the style of the flavorful yet Medium Bodied Cuban Cigars. Cigars are rolled in classic Cuban tradition by Master Rollers in Little Havana Miami, FL U.S.A. Headed by Maestro Tobaquero Jose Garcia. Cigars are rolled with a beautiful Cuban triple-cap and are Medium to Mild in flavor."

This cigar reminds me, very clearly, why I do not particularly care for cigars rolled in the U.S. We have some good cigars rolled here, but I find that the quality overall is less than the utmost. I paid a fairly good sum for this ($9.25) with the knowledge that it would be a "pretty damn good smoke" (according to my tobacconist, who I trust very much). However, my experience does not quite agree with what I have heard about this cigar both on the web and from other sources for several reasons.

Inspecting the cigar, I could see that it was fairly well constructed. It was firm, but not hard, and had a smooth, light wrapper. The cap was well affixed and did not seem like it would come loose or tear away (which it did not), and the pre-light draw was excellent, allowing just the right amount of air through. The veins in the wrapper were very small, and there were little or no imperfections to the overall appearance. I took notice of a pretty bulky protrusion on one side where it looked like the binder had been rolled too close to the wrapper, but it did not look at all like it would make a difference in the smoke, since I've seen a lot worse and had no problems.

Upon lighting the cigar, I got some very good flavors. The mild taste of a Connecticut shade leaf was prominent, even if these wrappers were grown in Ecuador. I usually smoke a darker cigar (Nicaraguan or Dominican puros), so the mild flavor was a nice change from the norm. There was a woodsy aroma and taste to the smoke, undercut with a kind of floral taste. It was a good start to the cigar.

The problems came about half an inch into the cigar. One side began burning faster than the other, creating a noticeable burn irregularity. I wasn't worried at first, since I've had pretty bad burn patterns correct themselves after about an inch in. I let the burn progress further in to the inch line, and was horrified to see that the side which had been burning slowly (coincidentally the same side that had the large protrusion) had barely moved, and I now had almost a half inch of unburned tobacco sticking up past where it should be. I then used my lighter to touch it up, to bring the burn line down to where it ought to be, and thought nothing else of it. I've had cigars before that burned like this, but one touch up usually fixed the problem. My efforts were to no avail. The next inch of smoking yielded identical problems. I had to touch the cigar up once again. The problem persisted until the final inch of the cigar, where the burn line finally corrected itself (not that it helped very much, since I was done already).

I would not be so disappointed with the cigar if this was the only problem (even though a burn problem of such magnitude ruined the overall experience). The flavors of the cigar did not progress at all to more complex mixes. In fact, they petered out to a single, burnt wood taste about halfway through and did not improve. The ash was brittle and got all over my shirt, and the cigar burned hot nearly the whole way through (and I smoked it slowly, as is my custom).

For 9 bucks, this cigar should have wowed me. But I found myself longing for one of the dos dias (?) that I mentioned in the post above which cost 2.50 a stick. With the claims of the utmost quality in their cigars and the type of things I've been hearing about some of the other lines of cigars that Tatuaje produces, I was very much surprised and dismayed. I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination and when I spend 9 bucks on a cigar thats not a puro or a Padron, I expect something great. This cigar did not live up to the expectations and I won't be smoking any more Tatuaje's any time soon.

Hope this helps anyone who's looking at buying a couple of these.

[Luckyleo]

Hi Guys,

I've been working pretty much full-time in Jamaica for the last 19 months. Have 7 months to go! Been smoking nothing but authentic Cubans. Monte #2 and Cohiba Sigilo 6. Get them for $8 a stick. In the U.S. I don't smoke Cubans. Smoke Honduran or Dominican. I have to tell you that the Cubans are definitely better, especially when you get to the last 1/2 or 1/4 of the stick. However, if you have to pay $20/$30 for one I would take a Dominican any day.

Anyway, just checking in one stogie smoker to another

[RedLeader]

Time for my yearly "the house is empty, time to smoke a cigar, enjoy a beer or brandy and read old comics"
Picked up today (In the only walk-in humidor anywhere near where I live)
MonteCristo #3
Partagas Coronas Senior
Romeo y Julieta Coronitas Cedro

I do it so rarely that I don't know a whole lot about cigars, but I had a friend with me who used to and I picked a few that he knew a bit about. Anything there you would or wouldn't recommend?