I know that many of you guys hate it when I post a rave review of a CBID offering, but tough! ;o)
I like to share with my friends and I now consider you guys my friends. Since I currently have two boxes of these wonderful smokes I thought I would post a little ode to them...actually, the following comment is from another cigar lover on a competing web site...
"This is a very new cigar to my favorites list. In fact, this list may be published before this cigar is even available to the public. However, I would be remiss to not include it. The "HOPT" Maduro is a long, wide Corona with a dark, lush Costa Rican Maduro wrapper. The blend has been jazzed up with additional Esteli Ligero, making this a much spicier cigar than the original blend. The creamy, earthy flavor of the Maduro wrapper, mixed with peppery, lively filler blend, create a wonderful fusion of flavors. In short, I love 'em."
I have to agree with this guy 100%! This is one of the best new cigars I have come across in the last 10 years easy!
CBID puts them up once or twice a month, and I have generally gotten a box of 27 for about $64.00. I hope they start putting more than one or two boxes at a time up for auction!
I am smoking one of these beauties as we speak! It is easliy as good as anything from Padron.