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SteveS Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 11:15 AM EST
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Went to dinner at the home of some good friends last night ... as we smoked an after-dinner cigar, my friends teen-aged son inquired what the most expensive non-Cuban cigar on the market ...

I named a couple of pretty pricey sticks, but after the fact, have thought of others and am sure there are some I've not thought of yet ...

Curiousity's got me now ... what am I forgetting?
emgjet Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 11:30 AM EST
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Steve: I'm sure you mentioned the Fuente lines: Opus X, Hemmingways,and Davidoffs. Just to add some others, "ONEOFF";Perfecto, Partagas Limited Reserve; Royale, and GrayCliff Professionale; Robusto. All in the near and over $20/each range. Much more here in NY.
Danno114 Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 11:36 AM EST
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PAM Millineum. My wife bought me some a couple of years ago for $30 each.
rya Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 11:55 AM EST
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I have seen an opus x cigars in Las vegas go for over $120.00
rookie139 Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 12:39 PM EST
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Is it just my computer or did Rya break the bulletin board?..The thread seems to be malfunctioned...Bikenic must've read the thread and broke it...LOL
rookie139 Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 12:39 PM EST
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Disregard..It was my computer..LOL
SteveS Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 12:48 PM EST
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an easy mistake to make, Rook ... particularly since it wasn't all that long ago that Bikenic DID do something to break the board ...
SteveS Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 12:50 PM EST
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damn, will you look at that!!! ??

I'm participating in a thread-jacking of my own thread!!!

Slap me, would you Slim ??
BMW Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 2:37 PM EST
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Yup, PAM Milleniums, got a couple @$25 ea. I hear, but haven't seen that the new Padron 1926 is up there also. After I got lucky and got a Fuente Untold Story for $12, I found one on the menu at a restaraunt in Austin for $100! (Of course they would sell a bottle of Boone's Farm for $80)
Barry
aberdeen Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Sep 26 2002, 9:07 PM EST
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I have seen the I've a Big Bottom Cabinet Vintage Reserva Doble Corona Maduro with a pig tail and flaovred with the knee drainage of Fuente's gardner sell for $84 at a 7-11, but only $76 if you buy a large nachos. Otherwise consider Ploppy's Naked Torpedo with a Siberian Catfish skin-grown wrapper, a favorite of Buzz Aldrin. M. Lewinsky I heard will be introdcuing a premium soon called the Pubic Sponge Bath Dance.
mhollowa Offline
#11 Posted: Fri, Sep 27 2002, 4:28 AM EST
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...Opus X. Paid $12 for Petit Lancero, $17 for Perfecxion No. 2 and Super Belicoso. After smoking one I'm still not sure they were worth that. I'm cheap and easily pleased. I can be happy with a 60 cent smoke that draws well and has even a hint of taste.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#12 Posted: Fri, Sep 27 2002, 4:38 AM EST
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You guys are getting hammered!

Opus X's, when available are MSRP with no goughing.

Padron's(even PAM's!), same thing! I think I've paid 14 for PAM's.

Only thing is that my local shop has daily limits...when nobody else is in the shop!
Danno114 Offline
#13 Posted: Fri, Sep 27 2002, 4:43 AM EST
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I've never seen PAM Milleniums for under $25
smithbw Offline
#14 Posted: Fri, Sep 27 2002, 10:42 AM EST
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What about the Ashton line...
Slimboli Offline
#15 Posted: Fri, Sep 27 2002, 11:07 AM EST
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Most expensive cigar(s)?

AF Hemingway 'Work of Art' Maduro
AF Hemingway 'Between the Lines'
AF Hemingway 'Untold Story'

... and lets not forget the Partagas 150 AA and Ramon y Ramon. There is a site right now selling them for $88.50 and $59.00 respectively ...
tailgater Offline
#16 Posted: Sat, Sep 28 2002, 5:47 AM EST
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Tamboril Torpedo.
Aproximate MSRP $1.80
Hospital visit $475
Add one week's missed wages and it is a very expensive cigar indeed.
BMW Offline
#17 Posted: Sat, Sep 28 2002, 8:01 AM EST
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LMAO @ tailgator,
Did it get stuck in your throat or were you just grass green for a week?
Barry
adroomi Offline
#18 Posted: Sat, Sep 28 2002, 6:56 PM EST
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"Shared" a Davidoff with Gates last month. 17 years old, $155.
WSUCoug Offline
#19 Posted: Sat, Sep 28 2002, 7:14 PM EST
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Graycliff has got to be somewhere in the top five most expensive currently produced brands.
Slimboli Offline
#20 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 4:18 AM EST
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Bottom line ... the most expensive cigar, is the one just beyond your means ... ;-)
CJBully Offline
#21 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 4:45 AM EST
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Slim,

you are so profound!
RobertParrott Offline
#22 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 9:49 AM EST
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tailgater,


Hospital? what's up with the tamboril that I have in the humidor?


Robert
Charlie Offline
#23 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 10:14 AM EST
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RobertParrot, I will answer for Tailgater, since I agree with him and rank Tamboril along with Big Butt, Lone Wolf, Hamiliton House and other Sheepcr-p sticks out there! However, it is not as bad as Lone Wolf rockets!

Most expensive in California seems to be the PAM's as stated above by several posters.

Charlie

PS I am praying the Chiefs will hang on and beat Dolphins today as Tony Gonzalez just caught a 42 yard TD toss to take them to 31-16 lead in Arrowhead! I am going to light up an Indian Tabac Teepee for the Chiefs (hope I do not jinx em)!
wouldestous Offline
#24 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 11:10 AM EST
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vsg estate selection. vsg with the opus wrapper, i think. (or is it vice versa?) had one and it was nothing to write home about.
Highlander Offline
#25 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 1:18 PM EST
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An Opus X for $120.00??! What woman was it stuck in at the time?
robnsue Offline
#26 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 7:53 PM EST
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OPus "A" has a MSRP of $25 usually sell for $50. THe "TTA" which was released with funds going to 9/11 was a $50 MSRP. I saw a IBTL go for over $700.
JonR Offline
#27 Posted: Sun, Sep 29 2002, 10:01 PM EST
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The most expensive cigar I purchased was on an overbid, I paid ten times its worth. It was a " lone wolf roBUSTo " and I paid $1.20 for it. JonR
tailgater Offline
#28 Posted: Mon, Sep 30 2002, 5:26 PM EST
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Hospital visit to replace damaged taste-buds.
4 of my senses shut-down in an apparent attempt to save the brain.
It almost worked...
cliffie3d Offline
#29 Posted: Tue, Oct 1 2002, 9:22 AM EST
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I've got a buddy that purchased TWO aged (late '80's) ISOM Davidoff Dom Perignons, at $250 EACH!!! That was two years ago; I think they're almost $350 each now.
qmechanics Offline
#30 Posted: Tue, Oct 1 2002, 2:26 PM EST
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Most expensive cigar

A few vintages(name the brand of qualitiy) sold in very exclusive cigar shops,one in London comes to mind, is where I believe you will find that pricey noncuban cigar.Here you can get aged Cubans as well as nonCubans from years ago.Sticks can sell from 40.00 dollars on upwards to hundreds of dollars per stick.
As to the available recently produced sticks
From least to most(depending on size)

Cohiba (Red Dot)/Don Carlos/Ashton VSG
LaUnica T.O.L.
Opus X / Graycliffe/Padron Ann.
Partagas Limited reserve
Partagas Ann.
etc...
I know that Opus X sells for way to much online.I never by Opus except for when I go to Miami so their position might be a bit prejudice.I just bought a Fuente Fuente Opus Num. 2 for around eighteen in Gainesville of all places, on line I have seen them for as much as thrty+ dollars,that is insane and would put them beyond most cigars listed here.
qmechanics Offline
#31 Posted: Tue, Oct 1 2002, 2:35 PM EST
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When looking at the lists here it appears that price depends on where you buy the cigar,which makes sense.I would have to believe that overall the Opus X is the most sought after nonCuban in the world.And though perhaps not the most pricey when compared to limited production special occasion type cigars ,I believe overall for its production size and availability year after year it is perhaps the most expensive seeing that demand and cost differ from place to place. Regardless I give the Opus X as a line my best rating.
cliffie3d Offline
#32 Posted: Tue, Oct 1 2002, 5:29 PM EST
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Ahhh, true vintage Aberdeen!
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