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What's your go-to cigar?

kjburnskjburns Posts: 4 ✭
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I've always been partial to the La Gloria Cubana Artisanos de Miami Elegante based on a review from 2008. Lately they've seemed a bit too tight, tough to draw. I've had good luck with the Daniel Marshal Red Label Churchills, but I'm open to suggestions. My preference is something I can spend an hour with.

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  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    MOW original, DPG Blue, or Vegas Gold, anytime, anywhere.  Lot's of favorites but those are no-brainers for me.  
  • jsnblnchrdjsnblnchrd Posts: 33 ✭
    Pretty much any Upmann, AF, DE, or La Gloria are all great go-to sticks.  Lately I've been on the Oliva Master Blends 3.  It's worth a try.  The robusto size is just over an hour.
  • Jetmech_63Jetmech_63 Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    Undercrown or Diesel Unlimited
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Flor de las Antilles.

    New World.

    Oliva G Cameroon.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • wahooschockwahooschock Posts: 792 ✭✭✭
    Flor de las Antilles.
    mow virtue.
    Avo maduro.
    De java.
    I love my pack and a good community (cigars/Vape)
    "I'm at the point in my life where if it doesn't taste good,I'm not putting it in my mouth"
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Virtually an unanswerable question, for me. 

    Does "go to" imply affordable enough to smoke every day? 

    If I had only a few cigars to get me through the next six months and I had to consider cost verses quality, I guess I could name a few. 

    Lately I'm very fond of:
    CAO Brazilia
    and
    J.D.Howard Reserve 
    I have always liked:
    Avo Classic

    Many more,...... but, I hope I never have to chose. 


  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    I don't really have a "go-to" cigar right now.  I am smoking less lately so when I do, it is something that strikes my fancy at the moment.  Open the box and see what catches my eye.  In the past it would have been Nording, Bauza, The Griffins, or anything from the Fuentes line. I would always buy those in box quantity.
  • ChemnitzChemnitz Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭
    AF Hemingway
  • Darktower007Darktower007 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭✭
    Armed forces series esteli Nicaragua.. $2.50 a stick f@&$ing outstanding for that price.
  • kjburnskjburns Posts: 4 ✭
    When I posted this, I was looking for ideas. I'm finding that I need to branch out a bit, so I've started taking advantage of the specials. So far, I haven't been disappointed. One was a bit mild for my taste, but it was still good. I'll keep an eye out for the suggestions. Thanks
  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    my go-to homework stick is the la herencia cubana core. solid stick and you can get em cheap if you look hard enough. I smoked a little more than a box worth of them last semester
  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    but as a go-to stick that I know will be amazing, and enjoy when doing nothing in my free time is the padron maduro (doesn't matter the year, but I love the 1926's, although they are expensive) or the Arturo fuente hemingway maduro.
  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    and sorry to triple post, but if you're looking to broaden your horizons, check out some samplers. a sampler I started with was the delicious dozen sampler, which has 2 cores in it, plus some other solid smokes like the decade, cohiba red dot, and ave maria. you can pick this up for dirt cheap on cbid
  • skydiverDskydiverD Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am only about 4 months into this and have basically been smoking whatever I can get. I just started ordering samplers. Right now my fav by a wide margin is La Gloria Cubana. Freaking great cigar. 
    How do you like my profile pic Taborski?   @matkn293          
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The caution with samplers is to not over-buy.  For the first several months I was buying samplers looking for what I liked, and now that I have a better feel for what to buy, there are cigars getting lonely in my humidors because they're just so-so sticks.  It seems  vendors make up their samplers and sneak some dogs in with the ones you really want.

    My go-to's have been just about anything from My Father/Pepin Garcia, Aroma de Cuba/Ashton, Gloria de Cubana/ EP Carillo, most Perdomos, and most Alec Bradleys.  There's a bunch of other stuff I've been loving, but the list would go on and on.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Pacman84Pacman84 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anything diesel
  • jsnakejsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Viaje, that Viaje, your Viaje, his Viaje, her Viaje.
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