Cigars and knives

Cobalt

Cobalt

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I just had 2 Hoya de Nicaragua cigars and they were ok. Not as good as many others but just ok. I had to relight the first one several times.

my current favorite for the money is Maxx.
 
Butera Royal Vintage Cigars are my pick.
Butera Cigars are made under the watchful eye of famed pipe maker and tobacco distributor Mike Butera. His pipes are rare and valuable and cigars are nothing less.

They are mild, creamy and smooth for any palate and are of the highest quality. Butera Royal Vintage are true-blended, premium cigars handmade in the Dominican Republic by 'first-row'cigar makers. Six distinctive whole-leaf tobaccos from three different countries are blended, including four specific types of long-filler leaves from the rarest Dominican crops. Every cigar is well-aged to maturity in cabinets of fine Spanish cedar and packaged in beautiful Mahogany chests. The Vintage Maduro line offers a smooth, medium to full bodied taste and comes in elegant boxes of 20. Handmade in Dominican with Dominican binder and filler.
 
Kelner makes a decent cigar. Have not had a Maxx. I don't get out much for cigars much anymore. I used to be a 7-10/wk sort of guy. I had some AMAZING cigars in the day.

Some of the most amazing were the CAO MX2 - expensive now (versus when they first came out) but amazing flavor combo. Also the most complex cigar I ever had was a Toraño Reserva Selecta. That boring mild one. That boring mild one is the most amazing thing Toraño puts out - if you spend the time to actually pay attention to it.

The original JR Cigars Flor de Allones were great as well. Perhaps a bit green, but had some interesting allspice-type flavor to it. Mmmmm.

Today - just give me a Piranha or an ERDM Rectangulare Natural. Altho I still like grabbing the occassional Toraño whatever.

Oh yeah - I also stopped in a LaLuna back last spring while in Miami for some base-a-ball. Stopped for some fine Coooban food first in a restaurant that was NOT english-speaking. Ho-mama. I ate like a king! And coffee and flan for dessert. Mmmmmm. I digress - had a LL fresh off the boat - as did my dad and my BIL. It was a bit. . . strong. I was able to handle it. Dad was doing OK. I thought my 6'7", 300lb BIL was gonna DIE. LOL It was a tasty cigar, but too heady for me. :( Maybe I'll get a box and let em sit in teh humi for a good long while.
 
Ashton 898.. Smooth Connecticut Shade wrapper, nice even ash, creamy flavor...

Ohhhhhhhhh I got all warm and fuzzy thinking about them!

Busse needs to make a cigar trimmer..... I'm sure Jerry has some scraps laying around that could make a nice little trimmer..
 
Padron 3000 Maduro.
Great cigar for a very reasonable price.
Great to smoke while looking at my favorite knives .
 
My favorite right now is the Gurkha double maduro, a truly excellent cigar. I like some of the CAO cigars as well, very nicely done. And you surely can't go wrong with a maduro Padron. There are many others I like as well.

To my way of thinking, any Busse, or any other knife I own, is potentially a cigar cutter.
 
For me, it's a Fuente Short Story for a quick smoke, a LGC Series R #6 or HdM Sultan for real flavor. BTW, I've been a friend of the leaf for better than 30 years.
 
My favorite to date is the Cumbres de Puriscal Gold. I haven't found anything that even comes close. :thumbup:

I'll be taking some notes though and trying a few of the ones listed here. Oh, and I like knives too.
 
dialton said:
Butera Royal Vintage Cigars are my pick.
Butera Cigars are made under the watchful eye of famed pipe maker and tobacco distributor Mike Butera. His pipes are rare and valuable and cigars are nothing less.

They are mild, creamy and smooth for any palate and are of the highest quality. Butera Royal Vintage are true-blended, premium cigars handmade in the Dominican Republic by 'first-row'cigar makers. Six distinctive whole-leaf tobaccos from three different countries are blended, including four specific types of long-filler leaves from the rarest Dominican crops. Every cigar is well-aged to maturity in cabinets of fine Spanish cedar and packaged in beautiful Mahogany chests. The Vintage Maduro line offers a smooth, medium to full bodied taste and comes in elegant boxes of 20. Handmade in Dominican with Dominican binder and filler.
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You sir have just made my mouth water! I'm a maduro man all the way. My dad smoked naturals for the most part and he would give me crap about those big black greasy maduros. I just laughed and asked him if he wanted to smoke a real cigar when he was done with his trainer. :D (It dawned on me tonight, that today was his birth day. He would have been 61 today, damn I miss him.)

The last real good ones I had were the previous incarnation of these babies: http://www.jrcigars.com/index.cfm?page=cig_view&ItemCode=LR3
Evidently the company stopped production for a while and then returned in full swing with some improvements in quality, which is saying something because they were pretty darned good to begin with. I haven't been able to pry any funds loose to try thwm though, this darned INFI addiction has got my love of cigars at a disadvantage. Jerry had better hope our wives don't call congress and tell them to investigate the addictive effects of INFI on men. :D
 
dialton said:
Butera Royal Vintage Cigars are my pick.
Butera Cigars are made under the watchful eye of famed pipe maker and tobacco distributor Mike Butera. His pipes are rare and valuable and cigars are nothing less.

They are mild, creamy and smooth for any palate and are of the highest quality. Butera Royal Vintage are true-blended, premium cigars handmade in the Dominican Republic by 'first-row'cigar makers. Six distinctive whole-leaf tobaccos from three different countries are blended, including four specific types of long-filler leaves from the rarest Dominican crops. Every cigar is well-aged to maturity in cabinets of fine Spanish cedar and packaged in beautiful Mahogany chests. The Vintage Maduro line offers a smooth, medium to full bodied taste and comes in elegant boxes of 20. Handmade in Dominican with Dominican binder and filler.
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Oh man!!!. . . Are you their marketing director???. . . 'cause I'm buying these babies as soon as I can find them!!!!. . . . If they smoke half as good as you make them sound, I'm in for the long haul!!!!. . . . :eek: :thumbup:

Jerry :D
 
So, Jerry, are you bringing cigars to the "PIT" this year? I know I am!!!!
 
You have hit my #1 hobby!

Keep in mind that the Butera cigars are quite mild. If you are a heavy smoker or often take in things that are not, shall we say, kind tothe palate (scotch, heavy cigars, etc), they may seem a tad under-powered. That said, I have heard nothing but good things about them. The Maduro line sounds great. If the quality is the same as the natural line, I will have to give them a try!

My current favorite smokes are the Padron 1964 maduro series, Partagas Serie P #2s, and Opus X/Anejo. Current short smokes (I have a 25 mintue commute) are Hemingway short stories with a few years of age on them, Partagas SHorts, Por Larranga Petite Corona, and Cohiba Siglo 1s. (tres petite corona). If I have the time, I enjoy the Partagas Lusitania (aged) ROmeo y Julietta Churchill (again, needs age), and the occasional custom rolled (Taboada...if this name means anything to you, you'll know why it's occasional) double robusto.

When smoking on my patio by myself relaxing, I have grown to be a big fan of thinner ring gauge cigars, through which I feel I can really engage the complexities of fine tobaccos. Opus X Lanceros (The "phantom": in the forbidden X), Cohiba Lanceros (with some age!), Trinidad Fundadores (smoking the last of my 1998s right now...mmmmm), and a few others, up to perhaps lonsdale in size.

For inexpensive smokes, the JR Ultimates age nicely, and with a year or so in the humi, they smoke quite well. I am working my way through the last of the Oscuro (double maduro) belicosos right now. If you are a fan of the big, full bodied maduro, they are a nice box for under 100 bucks.

I will trade fun and rare cigars for INFI. I am also available at any time for cigar consultations, and enjoy very little more than sharing cigars with friends both new and old. So, if anyone is ever around CT and wants to have a scotch, cigar, and INFI session, look me up.

Jerry, if we ever meet (which I damn hope we do!) I will supply the first couple rounds of scotch and cigars.
 
smokelaw1 said:
You have hit my #1 hobby!

Jerry, if we ever meet (which I damn hope we do!) I will supply the first couple rounds of scotch and cigars.
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Come to BLADE '07 my friend. . . . It's a fluging scotch and cigar marathon!!! Cobalt, Stabber, Drew, Skunkaramadingdong, and the rest of the HOGs put up enough smoke to be seen from the space shuttle!!!!:eek: :thumbup:

I'm a CAO CX2 man right now. . . Next week?. . .Who knows? :eek:

So come and join us as we celebrate the joys of first and second hand cigar smoke!!! :thumbup:

Jerry


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Jerry Busse said:
Come to BLADE '07 my friend. . . . It's a fluging scotch and cigar marathon!!! Cobalt, Stabber, Drew, Skunkaramadingdong, and the rest of the HOGs put up enough smoke to be seen from the space shuttle!!!!:eek: :thumbup:

I'm a CAO CX2 man right now. . . Next week?. . .Who knows? :eek:

So come and join us as we celebrate the joys of first and second hand cigar smoke!!! :thumbup:

Jerry


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I'd love to be able to make it. I'm pretty sure I'm in L.A. during Blade this year, though. Scotch, cigars, good guys and great knives...damn...I might have to blwo off my brother in law's wedding and hit Blade!

The CX2 is a really tasty smoke. One of my favorite Cameroon smokes. I recently had the opportunity to smoke a limited release Cameroon "shark" from the Fuente Anejo line...wowsers...good stuff. THere are some really outstanding Cameroons out there right now.
 
I enjoy smoking big cuban Cohibas (outside). It is a large cigar, and a commitment to a good long smoke because they are so large. Great when the bugs are bad, as tobbacco smoke always offends the nasty ones whether they are biting bugs or otherwise.

In the house Cohibas are simply too big and smokey, so I endulge in the smaller ones like Holland Panters.
 
Bufford said:
In the house Cohibas are simply too big and smokey, so I endulge in the smaller ones like Holland Panters.
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Why not pick up a box of the Siglo 1's if you like the cohiba flavor profile (obviously, the flavor is more impacted by the wrapper in the smaller blends, but it still ahs that great Siglo taste). They are a Tres Petite Corona, and are a great 20 mintue smoke for inside. I also have heard nice things about the Minis and Clubs if you are looking for REALLY small, but they are made with scraps (I know one of them is, not sure which) and as such would likely burn hotter.
 
Jerry Busse said:
Oh man!!!. . . Are you their marketing director???. . . 'cause I'm buying these babies as soon as I can find them!!!!. . . . If they smoke half as good as you make them sound, I'm in for the long haul!!!!. . . . :eek: :thumbup:

Jerry :D
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Jerry -- I just checked, and the cigar store down in GA (the one that was closed when we drove over there a couple of years ago) carries Butera Royal Vintage Cigars. Looks like we will have to wander over there on Thurs.



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