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If nobody has a spoken for referal to use. I would like to please sign up. Send me a pm. I know if you respond youll probably get flooded with tagalongs. Ive gone to multiple tat events and love the company and the direction it's heading and would love to help. I know the membership signup and referal is within a couple days so please consider it.
Thanks,
Patrick h. Harmon
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What's this saints and sinners?

I still think it's worth it. Basically a box and some swag that's nice. And some other perky things. And first dibs at loot.

Ooooh, pick me! Pick me! Pick me!

Slacker... I got extras of the aforementioned, you low?

That makes sense. Yes that is pretty pricey wow. I think the membership kit is worth it alone. I like the brand so I think it's something worth adventuring into.

Didn't you pimp me out for the Le vignobles over the pork chop at an event you didn't even know about?

Ya, was just thinking about that event....

I think that kind of left a sour taste in my mouth for tats.

First thing:

I had sh1t to do that day and they showed up 2.5 hours late.

They made you buy a 5er of regular production cigars before they even got there to put you on the list to buy cigars off the bus.

Then when they finally did get there, they only let you pick one thing, and the one thing it seems everyone was there for, they only sold like 3 bundles of them.

They kind of pissed me off.

All good dude, I get it, you're all up on Pete Johnson's D.

My pallet probably just isn't as refined as yous though, all the tat broadleaf cigars taste the same to me... I do like them mind you, but IMO with such a dominating wrapper, the filler doesn't really make a whole lot of difference.

(That's the ones people tend to rave about most).

Well, I've had quite a few of the TAAs, good? Yes, better than Cojonu 2012 Reserva? Not IMO.

I actually prefer the Oliva MB3s over tats, not because they're cheap, but because I think they're better and they hold up for me better during a golf round.

Olivas tend to hold up better during golf than all tats, that's not my opinion, that's a fact.

I have a TAA11 waiting that I've been sitting on for a while, I'll smoke it tonight or tomorrow and see if it changes my mind.

The 2014, 2015 and 2016 didn't, I don't really expect the 2011 to either.

I have a legendary CQ1 ... but I'm actually looking forward to that one, as I really like Ecuador Sumatra wrappers, kind of hesitant to smoke it cause I know I'll probably never see another one.

I think both Oliva and LFD make a better broadleaf than Pepin... but from my understanding, broadleaf is more Johnson's thing than Pepin's thing.

One thing about those 2 companies though, is they're not constantly beta testing new blends on the public, so that's probably why my opinion is what it is.

Again, ever since that event though, I've been hyper-critical of anything tatuaje.

bgz, I would say that the Tatuaje fan boys are redlining into DE fan boy levels....

i.e. Wombat

Fixed

You're the one that said you bought extra to share, I was only allowed to buy 1... guess my membership level is trash.

Well, like wombat said, the only reason why I was there was because of his dink a$$.

LOL, reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it :P

Scroll up Sherlock.

I don't smoke RPs.

And I do smoke Tatuajes.

Every year there is plenty Petemas to go around. The last few days they stay in stock for at least an hour if not more. I've never had a problem getting Petemas, just gotta wait out the horde. Also, I've even been able to purchase extras when at the end of the sale there are leftover packs and they're offered up to anyone else even if you already got some.

Alright, had to do the test (curiosity and stuff).

First off, just as expected, both were excellent smokes, and I probably drank a little too much in the process.

Win win right? Go SCIENCE!!!!

Anyway, both started out pretty much the same, strong peppery blasts as expected from a good broadleaf smoke.

Going into the second third though, the taa really shined. It gained a lot of character, not sure if it was do to being a taa or that it had several more years on it, but in any case, the middle of the the taa 11 was very good, no denying it.

Second third of the 7th reserva, was really good, but was no where on the level of the taa.

Going into the last third though, the 7th held strong and was better till the end where the taa started dropping off towards the end.

In any case, that second third of the taa was really good, so IMO that made it the better smoke over all, where the 7th was more a one trick pony, but it was a real good trick.

Both good smokes, glad I was able to perform this experiment, and ... I concede, the taa was better.

Sounds like you're a huge broadleaf fan... me, I like a good broadleaf, but I'll generally take a good natural or good SG over a broadleaf the majority of the time.

I smoked an MB3 last night to compare (wasn't even one of my good ones), IMO, it was on par with the 7th (I actually liked the profile of the MB3 better, but that's just me).

I can tell you, that I've had far less problems with MB3s (and Olivas in general) falling apart than tatuajes/pepins at the golf course... which may not be proof, but plenty of anecdotal evidence that Oliva's construction is better than Pepin's.

All this said, I'm not an Oliva fan boy, lol (For the record, I do enjoy smoking tatuajes... as stated in my review above)

My personal ranking of MFGs (almost everything I have falls under one of these MFGs)

Padron
Fuente
LFD
Habanos SA
Oliva
Pepin
Davidoff (if price wasn't an issue, this would be moved up my list considerably).
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.
.
The rest of them are down here on my list somewhere... Not interested in trying the blend of the week every other week... Very little of my stock falls in this category.

Like I said, I know I'm in the minority, but I don't GAF.


ALAS... the ultimate point of my ranting...

I didn't like waiting 3.5 hours (got there an hour early) for a bus to show up and not be allowed to buy what I wanted. Ever since that day, my opinion has been, they can take their L.E.s and shove em up their ass.

:)

Those rankings were quantity medium based too btw.

what kinda monkey-homo grab-assin' shenanigans are you up to out there on the course that your cigars "fall apart" on you?

Could you provide more details, and possibly some links to some examples (if possible)? I'd like to observe his jerkishness first hand but the googles aren't providing any gold