Posted on 09/02/2010 4:05:30 PM PDT by ml/nj
Wat does ASS taste like?
Had one this weekend, and I've got a bunch more in the hopper. Greycliffs are good. (And BTW, I never had heard of Greycliff until they were the presenter at one of our club dinners.)
ML/NJ
Good cigar. But I still prefer the Montecristo Churchill. Mmmmmmmmm.
Those are pretty awful. I tried one once. Once.
I started smoking Cuban Cohibas every time I went to Honduras. The Dominican ones just aren’t as good. I prefer the milder of the various Cuban Cohibas but they’re all good.
Of the native Hondurans, the Santa Rosa are quite nice but not to be found in the US.
I wish I could find something like the Cohibas that can be purchased locally here in the US since I don’t want to bring any home and get hung up at customs.
At one time the Macanudo Portofino was the best selling handmade cigar in the United States.
ML/NJ
ML/NJ
LOL!!
Quite a number of Honduran, Dominican and Nicaraguan super-premium cigars have achieved qualitative parity with Cuban offerings, whose export prices have long been artificially inflated by domestic scarcity due to an embargo risk premium. Prices have escalated along with demand, but all would decline if the US were to finally admit that our Cuban economic embargo of 50 years duration has proven fruitless and, I would argue, counterproductive.
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I like the Drew Estate Clean Natural Robustos, but didn't particularly like the rest of the ACID product line.
One of my worst smokes ever was these Indian Tabacs. *ptui*
“Wat does ASS taste like?”
Kiss an Obama and wonder no more...
The problem with Cuban cigars is two fold
1. I would say 50% of what passes for Cuban cigars are actually counterfeit.
If you don’t buy it from an authorized Habanos S.A. dealer, you’re probably buying a fake. But just because they have a Habanos S.A. sign on the door doesn’t mean what they sell is genuine.
It was funny when I was last in Cuba, I was offered a “genuine” box of Cohiba Siglo’s and you could just tell by looking that it was counterfiet.
2. There is such a high demand worldwide for Habanos and Cuba is so cash strapped, the Cubans are literally are selling every stick they make.
The big problem is that where once they would age a cigar for 2 year, they now will send it out green. And a green cigar is a very bad tasting cigar.
Also the Cubans have opened up a series of new factories to meet demand. But the cigars made in those new factories just aren’t up to the standards of the older factories.
I buy my cigars from either J.J. Fox in London or Gerard Pere et Fils in Geneva because, they will as a matter of routine, age their stock before they put them on the shelf. They will also refuse delivery if the cigars doesn’t meet their standards.
You can also try one of the La Casa del Habano store worldwide.
But I would still put up any preminum Habanos S.A. product against any premium cigar produced in the D.R. or Honduras.
Hardly counterproductive. The Communists can't consistently make decent cigars. Because of the embargo, many of those who can have reestablished themselves particularly in Nicaragua and Honduras and we now get better stuff than the folks in Europe still hung up on the Cuban mystique.
ML/NJ
Yes. Acids suck.
Interesting comment. I've had good luck with Hajenius in Amsterdam. But I also age my stock.
ML/NJ
Damn, for all your sakes, I hope Freud was right when he said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” You’re spending way too much time and attention on this.
I think I'd rather not.
ML/NJ
Ham, I would expect.
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