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borndead1 Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Jun 29 2019, 10:01 AM EST
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I tried a few Cusanos back in my noob days and remember them as decent but not great. But when Davidoff reintroduced the brand, I had to try one. Especially at a B&M price of $4.50.

Review: decent but not great.
ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Jun 29 2019, 10:55 AM EST
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I bought a Cusanos once.
KingoftheCove Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jun 29 2019, 7:49 PM EST
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borndead1 wrote:
I tried a few Cusanos back in my noob days and remember them as decent but not great. But when Davidoff reintroduced the brand, I had to try one. Especially at a B&M price of $4.50.

Review: decent but not great.

A B&M price of $4.50....
I'd say you did very well at "decent"...
"Great" was probably not going to happen.

I too tried a few different Cusanos many years ago.....same opinion......decent but not good enough to make me buy more.

One time they had a 3-pack that came with a very nice 3 finger leather cigar case. The cigars were not memorable, but I LOVED that case............and the dang thing just walked away one day.
tonygraz Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jun 29 2019, 8:42 PM EST
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I concur with the King's opinion on Cusanos.
pacman357 Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 2:00 AM EST
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The Cusanos never held much interest for me, with one major exception. In my earlier days, the 18 maduro was a decent smoke, but cigar makers have raised their game considerably since those days. Cusano did, however, sell a reasonably-priced sampler at the first Cfest I ever went to. IIRC, it was maybe 2007, and I got it from one of the pre-event evening parties, from the Chiusano brothers in person (their name is spelled slightly different than the brand, as they thought the name would be too difficult to pronounce...this was pre-Tatuaje, when difficult names were still a concern). I believe it was the last year Cfest day started in the hotel banquet room. If you had cigar nut tickets, there was a big brunch buffet, you could sit and chat with all kinds of cigar makers, have a nice meal and enjoy the new (then) Nub connie, which was a perfect post-brunch smoke. One of the cigars I got from that sampler was good, and I think it made it into regular production. For the life of me, I cannot recall the line of cigars. It doesn't appear to be in production anywhere, and I've spent too much time searching for it, considering it doesn't appear to be on the market any longer. Too bad, as that one Cusano was a damned fine smoke. Maybe an old-timer around here has one stashed. I know I do not.

Jesus, I am getting old. "Grampa*, please tell us the story again of what it was like to enjoy a product like an adult in a place where others were also allowed to be treated like adults, and you could smoke indoors in public without having everyone act like you've just committed a month of serial axe murders."

*I am not an actual grampa, as I have no kids of my own. Just so we're clear.

I remember the first Cfest I attended (out of three, 2 with my wife, 1 with a buddy), my wife and I had a room in the Poconos. Learned later it was much better to stay in B'hem and drive up for the day, as doing the reverse was a major PITA. Then again, if you like your drink, stay in the Poconos for a shorter drunk sleep-off. Anyway, we got into the motel down the hill from the event site at about 2 a.m. Place had a Denny's in it. Washington State had already pretty much banned smoking anything anywhere except in your own home, but when we walked into the Denny's, the hostess asked, "Smoking or non?" I nearly broke down weeping. Six months or so later, PA banned smoking in most public places (Washington still does not allow smoking in most shpos, no cigar bars, etc...you have to go to a reservation casino to have a cigar meetup, and some of those don't even allow cigars).
Cigarlady7 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 4:47 AM EST
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I had one today. It was exceptional. Cusano 18.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 8:13 AM EST
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What's the old Denis Leary bit? You can only smoke in your house, under a blanket, with all the lights out...
clickbangdead Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 10:01 AM EST
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I remember picking some of these up years ago, they were totally unremarkable then, I doubt they've changed much since. Good $2 cigar, won't wreck your palate, good construction, if you have to pitch it you really don't care. I doubt I'd bother trying them now with so many good ones in the price range.
pacman357 Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 1:37 PM EST
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Jeeminy, well, that's what I get for posting while I'm fighting an allergic reaction (medication, most likely; still trying to narrow down the last few suspects). I tried every source but the most obvious, CA. The sampler I liked contained a cigar that had already been released, I just hadn't recalled it. The Xclusivo. IIRC (which is very much in doubt now), it had a sun grown wrapper (Ecuadorian) at a time when SG wrappers were starting to really become a thing. CA's description of leather and caramel sounds about right. Sadly, it appears they are no longer being made. Same goes for the LXI Sun Grown, which was pretty darned good. It would appear that Davidoff bought the brand to fill a niche...something outside of mostly mild cigars and under $4000 each.

#7 Yep, that's it.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 4:16 PM EST
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PA's law has nice big exemptions in it, though. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've seen and what I remember off the top of my head:

A great exemption is that smoking is allowed in establishments that make 10% or less of their income from food (the 90% being alcohol). So, you can still smoke a big cigar, drink beer/liquor and eat a big plate of nachos or other bar food in PA bars if they're not food-focused, but rather alcohol-focused.

Another great exemption is that a restaurant can have a bar portion of itself, and as long as:

* the bar portion is separated from the main restaurant portion by an airtight partition (a full wall or a wall-to-ceiling divider, etc.)

* a weighted self-closing door is in the partition (so the door can't stay open more than momentarily and allow lots of air mixing)

* the bar portion has a separate door to the outside

* the bar portion has an entirely separate HVAC system from the main restaurant portion

.... then patrons can smoke in the bar portion, which can have an unlimited number of tables not just the actual bar and its stools, and waitresses can take orders from and deliver food to patrons there (at the bar or at the tables), and I'm talking orders from the entire restaurant menu, not just a "bar food" subset of items.

Most places made the partition transparent, implemented the other rules, and the overall effect is you can smoke in these restaurants just like in the old days before the law existed.

Walk in, select a table in the designated bar area (a.k.a. the "smoking section" effectively), tell the waitress what you want to eat, then when she brings it, light up a fat cigar while eating prime rib and drinking fine wine. Party like it's 1979.

PA cigar guys keep a mental database of restaurants in their whole region that have implemented the requirements and allow this. It's a minority of restaurants, but a pretty decent percentage.

Smoking is also allowed in some parts of PA casinos (something like 33% of the floor space and the main bar, although reportedly no casino employees tell you to put your cigar out if you're in the other 66% of the floor unless you're an ass about it or some whiny patron complains to them about your smoke). So, you can smoke a big cigar while using the one-armed bandit, playing roulette, poker, etc.

The leftist pukes are, OF COURSE, trying to eliminate all these exemptions, but they haven't yet. Enjoy it while you can, if you live in or visit PA.

(As an aside, the leftist pukes are using very dishonest propaganda technques. I know, shocker, right? What they did in this case was TOTALLY AGREE to these exemptions in 2008, presumably to get the law passed back then, as without the exemptions it would've failed. Thumbs up, they agreed, approved, rubber stamped it YES, the Dems went on record as saying the exemptions were A-OK. What are they doing now? Now, they're magically calling the exemptions "LOOPHOLES" that need to be "closed". Loopholes MY ASS, you S.O.B.'s EXPRESSLY APPROVED THEM back then! But, that's leftists for you. Dishonest and manipulative to their core. Today's "we totally agree to this concession" is tomorrow's "EVIL LOOPHOLE WE MUST CLOSE!" One little step at a time toward tyranny, there's less resistance that way!)
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pacman357 Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Jun 30 2019, 5:05 PM EST
Joined: 02-27-2006
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Man. Washington law is simpler to follow: smoke anywhere but on private property, or within 25 feet of any window or door of another building, and protesters will be called, then police can legally shoot you. Pretty much it. Seattle cigar bars had to shut down. Shpos cannot allow smoking inside (some set out parking lot deals, but folding chairs and an umbrella for the 5-6 months of the year that don't require giant heaters just isn't the same).

You can carry a firearm in all kinds of places in this state where smoking isn't allowed. While I appreciate part of that as a firearm owner, how it makes sense to allow devices that can rapidly kill several people where devices that typically only slowly kill the user (some times) and people who voluntarily took a job knowing that smoke was part of the deal demands a type of intellectual fortitude that eludes my apparently inconsiderable cogitation skills.
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