BlackFriar

I go to Shelly's Back Room in Washington DC (its about three blocks from the White House) occasionally to meet up with friends and smoke cigars. One day I looked over and started reading the names on the cigar lockers and saw this...

A San Juan from ‘16

A gift from Colin

H.Up C.No.1 MEG MAY16

Ahhh “bush meat!”

Fonseca No.1, UTL SEP 17 a bit toothy on the wrapper and it feels dry (though it is not)

Not bad. Don’t get me wrong it is not spectacular like a great No2. To me at least I feel this is just a longer No4. What I do like is that extra bit of time to enjoy it. Cheap and cheerful. Well... relatively cheap ?

MC3 today with a lovely divot.

It was rather bland and got acrid at the very end. First 88 I've ever smoked. The RASCC I smoked after was much better.

Almost there Colin with the deck and patio. Just a dream last summer.

A bit of barnyard funk at cold that we all seem to love. First few puffs are a bit thin on flavors. Maybe slight vegetal. First third. Good pepper notes on the retrohale and the smoke is thicker. A bit of leather and some cream in the flavor but not much. Also a bit of salty bitterness on the lips. A little boring actually. The ash is not holding together either. This is 3/4 of a wonderful box, but I guess they cannot all be fantastic. Luckily the cigar has a long way to go. Middle third. The leather is more pronounced and is accompanied by sandalwood (I always like that) but

Going the cheap and cheerful route this evening with a Quintero Nacionales. Been dry boxing a few days as the last one straight from the humidor got pretty acrid a third of the way through. This one is starting off strong. Good spice notes, with some leather/tobacco flavors and some dense smoke. Solid non complex flavor profile. Considering it’s under four dollars for a cigar, I couldn’t be happier with its performance out of the gate. Update: Just finished the cigar. Really enjoyed it! The dry boxing made all the difference in the world! Will take about five out of the Humidor to dr

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