If I could only smoke one brand of cigar I'd choose [insert brand]
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Just curious what your experience tells you is the strongest brand out there.
Although I'm still in "smoke around tramp" mode, at some point soon I'll probably want to do a deep drill-down into a couple brands. Which do you think are the best brands across a variety of cigar types? Thanks.
Although I'm still in "smoke around tramp" mode, at some point soon I'll probably want to do a deep drill-down into a couple brands. Which do you think are the best brands across a variety of cigar types? Thanks.
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My guess is that 99% of us are still in the "smoke around tramp" mode and always will be.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
I guess I'm glad to see that there are others who are as promiscuous with their smoking habit as I am. However, I made my corporate bones with 20+ years at an ad agency and the lack of brand loyalty is a little unsettling. The exception is Woodguarden, who has a clear loyalty to AJ's "Field of Brands." If you roll them, they will smoke.
I'm too early in my journey to have hard opinions, but I've been impressed so far with Torano, Punch and Bradley, not so much with Gurkha and Patel. I've got some Carillo's resting and on my upcoming golf vacation will sample my first Ave Marias and Olivas.
Is it supposed to be this fun?
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-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!
Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues go marching in!
I expect I will always be a smoke around tramp. I do have general preferences, but I understand myself and I know I am a beer and wine tramp.
In my 105 year old farmhouse (it is creaky and needs a shizz ton of stuff repaired, but I have 20 years to do it), I have an unfinished basement which has some cold storage.
Down there I keep a rotation of 175+ beers (12 oz, nothing crazy like uber-collectable or anything). To be fair, I brew a bit, so 1/3 of that is home brew. I try to keep a good supply of wine and spirits on hand as well. IMHO, stuff stores just fine in a cold basement.
Yes, a standing rule was just established. If any of Ccom BOTLs are ever in the SLC metro area, give me a heads up; I would love to have you over for a steak, some drinks, and some cigars!
Circling back, bottom line: I know I am a relative n00b, but I also know I like to try a bunch of stuff -- I don't anticipate that changing anytime soon.
I must be the type that Advertisement Agencies hate, lol
-Jay
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
"I'm at the point in my life where if it doesn't taste good,I'm not putting it in my mouth"
Yeah, I could happily live with just those.
That's a tough one,
I like variety and exploring different things, if that makes me slutty well so be it, always have been and always will be. Very seldom will I smoke the same cigar twice in a week or even month. In the last four years I've only found maybe five or six cigars that I truly disliked although there is a fair amount that I won't buy again.
If I had to pick one brand and stick with it, I think I go with Don Pepin Garcia. I like the spice profile, they age well and there is some variety.
I really like Oliva too.
So so far haven't had a La Palina, Padron, or crowned heads that I didn't like either.
Thankfully, don't have to make that choice, except for monetary reasons. LOL