Cigar Recommendations?

[pmacdaddy]

Figured I would toss it out here and see if anyone has suggestions.

Hoping to get some of the good ones in time for Opening weekend...

Probably get a box of Montecristo #2's and perhaps some Hoyo De Monterey Double Coronas.

Any suggestions for a high end cigar to get a small box of? Tried the Cohiba Sligo VI last season which was very good.

All Dominican of course, Embargo and all...

[Storm Cadet]

My favorite Dominican is Ashton 8-9-8.

Had a Punch this past weekend...fair.

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by pmacdaddy

Figured I would toss it out here and see if anyone has suggestions.

Hoping to get some of the good ones in time for Opening weekend...

Probably get a box of Montecristo #2's and perhaps some Hoyo De Monterey Double Coronas.

Any suggestions for a high end cigar to get a small box of? Tried the Cohiba Sligo VI last season which was very good.

All Dominican of course, Embargo and all...

I like the deals that Thompson Cigars gives you. Lately I've been firing up their Dominicans, Hecho a Mano (Robusto).
I wish we could get Cubans, but these are the closest I've found.
Google Thompson Cigar cause they have an online catalog. New deals every month.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

I like the deals that Thompson Cigars gives you. Lately I've been firing up their Dominicans, Hecho a Mano (Robusto).
I wish we could get Cubans, but these are the closest I've found.
Google Thompson Cigar cause they have an online catalog. New deals every month.

Unfortunately, nothing close to Cuban Cohibas and Romeo & Juliette (Americanized spelling).

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Unfortunately, nothing close to Cuban Cohibas and Romeo & Juliette (Americanized spelling).

Which Romeo and Juliets do you recommend?

Just in case I get to Cuba...

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Unfortunately, nothing close to Cuban Cohibas and Romeo & Juliette (Americanized spelling).

Quite right Somer. Did you know that some Cuban seeds were smuggled out and now support the Domonican Republic's tobacco leaf industry?
Check out Tompsons.

[timmgirvan]

I heard an ad for Romeo y Julliettas just this week! somebody in US must sell them!
Thompsons has good deals!

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

I heard an ad for Romeo y Julliettas just this week! somebody in US must sell them!
Thompsons has good deals!

They may have a factory outside Cuba like Cohiba does. The best are the larger ring sizes imo!

[pmacdaddy]

I have never had a good experience with the non-Cuban Romeo y Juliets. Also find Cuban Cohiba far superior and consisten compared to non-Cuban Cohiba.

For Dominican I usually go for White Label Montecristo.

[packerbacker7964]

My friend brought back some Montecristo Habana's from Cuba. When we talk at work about where the best anything comes from he always says Cuba. Peaches, Pizza, beer just name it and it's better in Cuba. I always ask him if everything is good there then why did he move from the Pardise Island? Back to the story, he's right about the cigars though. I'd love to be able to smoke these the rest of my life. I don't smoke cigars but these make it enjoyable beyond belief.

[GPK]

what was Clinton's preference?

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by GPK

what was Clinton's preference?

the Monica Cristo I believe!!

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Samarta

the Monica Cristo I believe!!

LOL...the fish flavored blunts!

[ELA]

I've been smoking cigars for my entire adult life and have been a true connoisseur and LOTL (lover of the leaf). With that said, no offense to what I consider one of the finer things in life -- but good, great, mild, full-flavored, etc. cigars . . . are like ice cream -- everyone's taste buds are different. With that said, one thing that is very important when talking about cigars is consistency -- remember, we are talking about a hand-made product (yes, the higher-end non-Cuban cigars).

As far as consistency, you will not find any cigars (outisde of Cuban) more consitent that the Fuente Opus X and the Padron Anniversario. Davidoff is very consistent as well. They are of course also the most limited in production and the most difficult to find.

I smoke Cuban cigars daily, and have been smoking mostly aged cigars for the last 5 years. I can probably count the # of non-Cuban cigars I have smoked in the past 5 years or so and they have either been Opus X, Padron Anniversayio. I have smoked a few very limited/special edition Davidoff's, and a couple of other limited/special edition smokes.

Opus X and Padron Anniversario, relatively speaking, for many cigar smokers are considered to be expensive. Other than Davidoff, they are probably the most expensive production cigars made in world.

Eric

[ELA]

BTW, the Cuban version as opposed to the non-Cuban version of all of these cigars -- Cohiba, RyJ, Montecristo, Paratgas, Hoyo de Monterrey, and so on -- they are like night and day. They aren't even related and have nothing to do with each other.

Eric

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Unfortunately, nothing close to Cuban Cohibas and Romeo & Juliette (Americanized spelling).

Agree with Somer here on the Cuban Cohibas. When I was 17, I smuggled a box of them out of Cancun back here to Florida and got away with it!

[Storm Cadet]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Agree with Somer here on the Cuban Cohibas. When I was 17, I smuggled a box of them out of Cancun back here to Florida and got away with it!

So your life of crime started at a young age eh?

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Storm Cadet

So your life of crime started at a young age eh?

I think that's about the worst thing I've ever done...

Well, maybe not.

[hockey2315]

I was thinking about getting some Gurkhas. . . Has anyone tried them?

[ELA]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

I was thinking about getting some Gurkhas. . . Has anyone tried them?

Once. Never again. But, like I said -- if you like them, smoke them and often, LOL.

Eric