What's your favorite vitola? and why?

TRayB
TRayB Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I like Toros, they seem like a good length to have a good hour-and-a-half smoke, and not too fat. I don't like 60 rings. A Toro length Perfecto is a close second.

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  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,904 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My personal favorite is 6x48. But love corna gordas in general. I also like toros up to 52 ring Guage and robos.

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  • 11thGenSoutherner
    11thGenSoutherner Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    6x48 is my favorite. I don't like large ring gauge cigars and sometimes lanceros aren't enough of a smoke. Robustos are second but sometimes too short.

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  • 11thGenSoutherner
    11thGenSoutherner Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't mind larger gauges if they are box pressed. Thought I should add that

    Cigars are great and so is this

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,540 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anything 5-6" and between 48-54 ring.

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  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Depends on the cigar but mostly robusto.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,638 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Corona

  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love the lanceros, but robusto is my usual go to.

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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,263 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Usually a robusto, never was a big ring gauge guy but had a 60 on one of Roman's blind tasting runs and I really enjoyed it so I won't rule a cigar out on size anymore.

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  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Patrickbrick said:
    Depends on the cigar but mostly robusto.

    Isn't a Toro about the same ring size as a Robusto, generally just a 1/2 to 1" longer? What you reason to prefer a Robusto?

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2023

    @11thGenSoutherner said:
    I don't mind larger gauges if they are box pressed. Thought I should add that

    I didn't like box-pressed at first, they felt weird on my lips, but they have grown on me.

  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like to try different vitolas, in my opinion adding length can take away something. Just my opinion based on my preferences. I do have boxes of Churchills based on my experience with those particular cigars too. Also absolutely what mike said!

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  • CalvinAndHobo
    CalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Different cigars are better in different sizes, but if the FDA passed a rule that said cigars can only be made in one size, I'd pick 6x46.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,708 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm not a fan of Churchills but I've had fantastic cigar experiences in the Churchill vitola, a Sobremesa Elegantes en Cedros is one example I remember. I'll sometimes enquire what the best expression of a cigar is from my friends since some vitolas a better than other for a particular cigar.

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  • Jrflickster
    Jrflickster Posts: 4,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Robusto probably

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Am I the only one who feels deja vu reading this thread? A few years ago we were discussing this subject often and then it died down. The basics, I recall, come down to this,.. smaller ring gauge, more wrapper flavor, larger ring gauge, more **** jokes.

    I searched for a prior thread, and did not see one. There's some **** innuendo here, though.

  • Jrflickster
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    @Rdp77 said:
    As @Vision knows I won’t smoke anything below a 56 ring gauge. Bigger the better. The 8x80 and 9x90s are right up my alley.

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  • Vision
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    @Rdp77 said:
    As @Vision knows I won’t smoke anything below a 56 ring gauge. Bigger the better. The 8x80 and 9x90s are right up my alley.

    Rusty... we are talking about cigars. That's more suited for the Non-Cigar Related thread.

  • CAcigarguy007
    CAcigarguy007 Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2023

    Corona and robusto for me. I have some toro blends I smoke regularly but those were mostly a price/availability thing. Big ring gauges don’t interest me but I would buy up to a 56-58 if it were a blend I wanted and the price was right but I certainly don’t prefer large rings. Someone has to be buying them though because I just keep seeing more and more of them. Maybe it’s macho thing or status symbol, who knows? Some folks do equate huge cigars with being a boss or “gangster” lol. Flavor is more important to me.

  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've started to prefer Corona /Corona Gordo, but still smoke more robusto and toro due to availability.

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