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Two days ago in Gent/Belgium invited to a cigar dinner of the Belgian Aroma de Cuba smokers club where I have good friends. My first trip in 18 months and celebrating my second Pfizer-BioNTech jab 2 weeks ago. A great location, Brasserie Latem, a Michelin starred Restaurant, the owner/chef himself a cigar smoker, ca. 30 Aficionados, superb Tapas dinner, 3 cigars and I was named "Honorary Extra Muros Member" of the Club. Excellent hospitality by all, very generous and a great atmosphere. Good conversations and exchanges. Lovely evening ! Certainly not my last cigar dinner wi

Today's mail.

Bolivar Petit Corona TUA MAR 20

My favorite things: cigars and guitars! Bolivar Corona Gigantes PUR DIC 15 courtesy of @JZBdano.

From our gracious host - 10 ct. boxes of PsdP (RAT MAR-20) and two PSD4's (SOU FEB-20). All 3 boxes are great looking cigars!

I somehow ended up with a rare CoRo Culebras. It was a tight draw and fell apart half way through. HDM DC

Solid TUA JUL 20 QdO CC

Happy Father's Day!

Epi 2 last night on zoom. Followed by a RASS. And a Monte 5 today. Had that spicy cinnamon candy flavour.

A few months of success. And 1 potential failure.Freezer time and fingers crossed.

Siglo III

Celebrating my kids going out of town with their grandparents for a few nights 😎

Monte E2 REG OCT 19 Extremely aromatic and powerful. Need patience to age them to bring out their best.

BRC bit of wind tunnel. Partagas PCE spice as expected. Better construction than the last few Partagas cheap and cheerful I had. 2008 Punch super selection no. 1 ROTT from a trade on zoom. 5/5. As usual I feel like I got serious about CCs 10-15 later than I'd have liked to. Better late than never.

Looking forward to trying these.

ROTT MAR MAR 20 Sig II. The first ROTT cigar I’ve smoked in awhile! Lots of lemon grass and some creaminess. Very smooth through the retro. The box definitely arrived wet so I’ll let these sit for another 60 days. One thing I've found with Sig II's is they have incredible smoking time for PC's. This one lasted almost 90 minutes.

Trinidad Coloniales GRM OCT 20. These have a mirror oily sheen to them. Should’ve bought two boxes.

Dip 2 tues morn and PDS4 this morning before the 110 degree heat rolled in. Week of vac visiting our son in AZ. Of course they get oppressive heat week we’re here. I like warm weather but 115-117 is hot, at least it’s a dry heat - lol

HU Mag 50 (HQ) - GEL AUG '20

These are tasty smokes for sure Don’t dip in too soon …I think these just hit 2 years box age ….a world of difference from a year ago Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cohiba Genios - TUA NOV '20 Always like to keep a few of these around and very pleased to see the TUA factory code.

Partagas shorts DIC19. Positively surprised! After having tried several other vitola within the marca I had decided it wasn't for me. Now I have to reconsider.

C&C time. HDM Epi 1 (2017) - 24:24 Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

Cracked a fresh 50 cab this morning. LGR-ENE-18. Smoked beautifully on the course in the stifling hot temps. Thanks to you doc, @SigmundChurchill for this delicious Siglo IV. First one I’ve had and almost wish I didn’t smoke it. Now I might blow more $ than I’d like on smokes 🤣 Happy Fathers Day to all you dads out there!! Stay Smokey.

RAT DIC 19 HU Proprios. Really enjoy these. RAE MAR 15 Punch Punch from a cab. 😋

Today I felt like a blind chicken who found a grain of sweet corn. A package of CR sticks arrived at my door containing some fine farm rolled cigars from “La Meca del Tabaco” in Vuelta Abajo – don’t ask me how they made the trip, I will not reply …. 🙂 I could not resist and smoked the Lancero right away like a thirsty man in a dry desert. After over a year of smoking regular production it was ( no arrogance intended in the analogy ) like going from McD Burgers to an Adrian Ferra Michelin starred dinner menu…. And then some ! Ninety minutes of pure bliss, aromas, flavours,

Mdo4 (probably TUA Feb/mar 21) after a rough week at work. Finishing up things before I move on to new employment. Perfect draw and burn, very enjoyable flavour. Considering another box!

Just cracked a fresh 10er ….not a fan of darker wrappers but damn I’ve been surprised by some darker wrapper cigars from the epicure line Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A quarter box of HQ GLE Dic 2020 Cohiba Siglo II's courtesy of our host...

VR Unico

Coloniales. RAG SEP 19 if memory serves. Contemplating all the work that is yet to be done and products and furniture to be delivered for my upcoming covered porch/cigar lounge. Lotta work to go down in the next six weeks or so. Working from home may not suck as much. Cigar is outstanding. Glad to have a few more boxes in the mail before the price increase.

La Trova RAG FEB 2019

Picked up a couple of boxes of BRE MAY 19 Connie A’s and opened one up tonight. Great construction and burn with good flavors but not to the level of the LUB NOV 13 that I smoked a box of and still have a full box left. I’ll enjoy the 13’s slowly over the next number of years and continue to sample the 19’s to see how they progress.

Esmeralda CoRo And I'm smoking a really tasty BRC right now. (picture not included)

The Boli PC's looked so appealling I broke down and smoked one ROTT. I wasn't disappointed, young but tasty. I'm looking forward to smoking through these as they age.

PSP2 POL OCT10

Siglo III

Look at this roll.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well after leftover steak for dinner 😂 I had a LTO ABR 20 Partagas E No. 2. This box of 5 has been a little hit and miss but this one was a definite hit.

Why does this have to be so freaking good 😭😭😭 This Esmeralda has had a very unique, delicious apple pie flavor that's amazing!

I always bought BHKs for “special occasions” ...the Friday of “fathers day weekend” sounds like a fair excuse!

GEL JUL 20 Monte 1. Dry boxed this for a few days and it’s the best Monte I’ve had in awhile. The light wrapper is bringing tons of twang, nuts and biscuit. I’m wondering if Montecristo benefits from dry boxing most of the marcas?

Pairing made in heaven

Couple of boxes that are firsts for me. Quality looks great and looking forward to some ROTT time tonight. The vendor even threw in a sweet cigar rest and an extra box of Party Serie D. No 6s due to a hiccup. Diplomaticos No. 2 - RAT AGO '20 HU No. 2 - GEM FEB '21 Party Serie D No.6

MAY-15

MSU AGO 17. Amazing construction and flavours from this RAS. I am getting stewed fruit! Mmmmmm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

PSP RAT MAR 20 and a stunner Lambrusco. Bubbles come out for the summer! This is a very easy going Fuerza which only wants to be puffed every 3 mins or so…really enjoying it, thanks FOH! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk