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[glaesthetic]

Siglo V for my wife’s birthday.  Smoked it it until it hurt 

[Trimming]

Charlotte 

 

 

[Chucko8]

Sunday Mojitos and cigars. Bliss!

[Raskol]

C&C time. Monte PE (2017) - 24:24

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[fokker4me]

A 2013 QdO. I'll miss these when gone.

[Devo]

10 hours ago, havanaclub said:

Shot 74, 2 over with a few short birdie misses. Could have had my first under par round. Very close.

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Nice round!  I’ve still never shot under par either but I’ve come darn close a few times.  I keep chasing that little while ball in hopes I get another chance. 

[Wookie]

JL2 2015

Edmundo

[lovethehaze]

Enjoying an Esplendidos after one of my better rounds of golf. Shot 74, 2 over with a few short birdie misses. Could have had my first under par round. Very close.
MSA NOV 17



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Great round ! Stop thinking about your score towards the end ... it helps to go low. Play one shot at a time ... then add them up. It’s amazing how when one takes themselves out of the situation the numbers add up
Lower.


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[Boxer31]

vigia and F1 - nice morning 

[sw15825]

MAS JUN 08 Lusitanias. I bought 2 x 10's boxes from our host a decade ago/HQ and wrote "Age" on the orange sticker, put the box in ziplock and buried it at the bottom of one of my cooleridors. I debated putting the box on auction with Bond Robert's when that got going to bag at least $30 something a stick. Work has been slow with the outbreak. But, when I opened the ziplock and smelled the lovely, creamy Cuban tabacco with barnyard still present, opening the box to perfectly constructed and very oily double coronas, I could only keep them for myself. I could not afford the current asking prices to replace a box of decade + aged cigars in this size for certain. The same happened with an intact box of BHK 54'S, BTO AUG 12 that was sleeping nearby the Lusi's. The first cigar I took out of the BHK's was difficult to do, especially with what I could have earned from selling them. With all the difficulties recently with Covid 19, seeing a friend that was younger than me pass away from complications from Covid, and opened my mind up to, "life is short, enjoy what you can". I turned 54 in July, "I'm gonna start burning through my stash" as I wish to do. I'm a cigar smoker, and collect really to age at times, then enjoy what I have patiently waited for". I am not into this hobby to make money...  Btw, I paid around $300 for the BHK's and $115 for the box of HQ Lusi's, if I remember correctly. Those days seem long gone forever at the current asking prices,  that are getting more and more rediculous by the week. I'm not sure who is paying the 35% to 75% increases in some cases. I hear the Asian market has grown significantly, but know the increases are not only from Habanos price increases alone. Sorry for this rambling on, just my thoughts on enjoying life while I can and what the hell happened with the price increases. Now, back to this smoke. I am very glad I did not sell them. Beautiful construction, appearance, aroma at cold and burning, taste and complexity. There is still decent strength here. This is in my top 3 cigars, I smoked this year. 95 +. ?

 

 

It's a Partagas kind of day. 2009 898...

[Nico]

RyJ CK RAT DIC19. Really rough edges on this one. Reminds me why I never smoke CCs young. Flavor is strong cedar and some subtle hints of cherry and other stonefruits. Disregarding the cedar it’s a classic RyJ. Medium in body and strong in flavor. Mine is also burning razor sharp. No evolution though.

Hard for me to say if this will turn out good down the road. Would love if some more qualified people would chime in with their opinion.

[sw15825]

19 minutes ago, Nico said:

RyJ CK RAT DIC19. Really rough edges on this one. Reminds me why I never smoke CCs young. Flavor is strong cedar and some subtle hints of cherry and other stonefruits. Disregarding the cedar it’s a classic RyJ. Medium in body and strong in flavor. Mine is also burning razor sharp. No evolution though.

Hard for me to say if this will turn out good down the road. Would love if some more qualified people would chime in with their opinion.

Honestly, I don't really like CC's with much less than 4 or 5 years of age, even with the fact that they are supposedly using 1 to 3 year old tabacco for rolling the cigars. I believe they do not always stick to that guideline, especially following poor growing/crop years. It seems to go in cycles of this and some years tasting far better young than others. I hear 19 and 20, seems like tabacco with some more age and/or quality. I have only smoked a few things from 2019 and none from 2020, so have little for comparison on vintages. RYJ serms to need age, to my liking at least. I have a box of Short Churchills that it took a decade for me to really enjoy. It would be great to hear what other BOTL's know or experienced on these questions. 

[fungi]

16 hours ago, YOM'$ said:

Surely on the Lower D

Correct

[TheFullMontecristo]

Incredible Sir Winston from 2019 Xmas sampler. About 15 mins in got steady stream of Sweet almond short bread. 

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Double Edmundo RUM ABR 19

 

[JohnS]

Por Larrañaga Encantos 2010 - Edición Regional Asia Pacifico (circa 2010)

According to Cuban Cigar Website, the Por Larranaga Encantos was released in 2010 exclusively for the Asia Pacific region with a standard B style band and an Exclusivo Asia Pacifico second band. They were packaged in varnished numbered 8-9-8 boxes of 25 cigars, of which 4,000 were produced. They were the second Asia Pacific Por Larranaga release after the 2007 PL Robustos.

The PL Encantos is a dalias vitola with a 43 ring gauge x 170 mm (or 6¾ inches) length. The only two remaining dalias in regular production are the Cohiba Siglo V and the Partagas 8-9-8. These remain reputable cigars, as is the vitola itself. Along the way we've seen the Bolivar Inmensas, La Gloria Cubana Medaille d'Or No.2, Partagas de Partagas No.1 and Seleccion Privada No.1 and Ramon Allones 8-9-8 discontinued (and much missed) in the last twenty years.

Apart from the Montecristo D 2005 Limited Edition, this vitola has also had special releases with the Ramon Allones 8-9-8 German Regional Edition in 2014 and the Punch 8-9-8 Asia Pacific Regional Edition in 2018.

The Por Larranaga Encantos, much like the 2006 German Regional Edition Por Larranaga Lonsdale, was muted and closed in its flavours for some time after its release. If you were to do a dedicated search on our forum on this cigar you'd find that it wasn't until some time between 2012 and 2014 that the Encantos started to open up in terms of that softer, aged caramel note that Por Larranaga is renowned for. Recent reviews on our forum, however, have been almost universally effervescent and united in praise in remarking what a quality cigar this has become, especially in the last two years.

So how did I find it? I'm going to come out and simply admit that I too was 'singing from the same song sheet', to borrow a well-known idiom, after smoking this today. It exuded a quality refinement all the way through, with its core wood, baking spice, honey and caramel/butter toffee velvety texture. About the only (very minor) criticism I could offer would be that in the last third the cigar picked up in its woody intensity; otherwise, it was absolutely superb.

If you have this cigar in your humidor then you'd know just how well this is smoking now. It's the type of cigar that you wish you had ten more boxes of. I'd like to thank @baragh for gifting me this PL Encantos to smoke and enjoy!

[BurnNSmoke]

NC today. Maestro del Tiempo Lonsdale with 4 yrs of age.

 

[BigGuns]

11 hours ago, Chucko8 said:

Sunday Mojitos and cigars. Bliss!

Nice stick!!  But, how do you like that megajet?

[Paladin865]

An other marca i can check off

[ThePolskiOgorki]

A few from the weekend of camping. 
 

Monte 1 and a stunner of a 100% Rye Canadian Whisky.

 

MOB JUN 15. If only I always had time for DCs. 

[Puros Y Vino]

Lit up my first  QdO Senadores tonight with some Hooegarden 

[Theophilus]

H.upmann-Magnum 46 ABO DIC ‘18 PSP

[FatherOfPugs]

RyJ Churchill this afternoon while getting more yard work done.

[dangolf18]

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[Chucko8]

3 hours ago, BigGuns said:

Nice stick!!  But, how do you like that megajet?

I don't find it to be great for the smaller RG sticks to be honest. Too easy to burn around the side and hit on the wrapper. Probably just need some more time to adjust with it perhaps.