JOSE L. PIEDRA Cazadores.

Hey all, I've been away for a while - serious health issues, but I did smoke one of these this morning on the porch It's been sitting in my humi since 2012 and It turned out to be simply amazing. They come in bundles and tend to have a prominent ammonia smell. This is my second bundle and I'm convinced some high ammonia cigars can become fantastic with humi time.

Cohiba Siglo III

EMA MAR '08

Monte Edmundo

Thankfully you didn’t pay for it.
Was it presented as a fake, or as a potential fraud?
How did you confirm it was fake?

Boli RC

H Upmann Corona,06,with a couple fingers Old Forester Statesman.Excellent combo if I may say so myself.

This weekend:

JL#2 DTF May '03 over the hill
JL#2 GAS Abr '08 wonderful
JL#2 PRA July '10 from a cab also wonderful
JL#2 UTL June '17 not ready yet

Alex custom Rob '18 - gotta keep my hands out of these

Where you guys get all those aged cigars? I was in Havana a few weeks ago. I prowled 4 or 5 LCdH and the oldest I saw of anything I was looking for was Nov 2017. A box of Monte 2 with those new bands is a beautiful sight and I am too old to age them 5 years. I’ll try one in 6 months

Long time no see. You are old enough to have a good stash yourself brother.

Way too true, DED, but a LCdH has always been too far away, and I've never tried or trusted internet sources.i had a Honduran puro a couple weeks ago. Can't believe it was as good as I remember.

party presidente from a split with fiddler and delta
these are getting better

but it's commie baccy!

SD #4, 10/09
Party Shorts, 10/14
HUHC 08/14

buy a Perfecdraw. Best cigar related $40 I have ever spent, but I think they are selling them for even cheaper now.

HU Mag 46 '12
Alex Tailsman thanks to Scot. Wonderful 90 minute smoke.

HU Royal Robusto LUB '14 yum!

MOE Oct 14 ERDM Chiox Supreme

Smokin the house down. Wish I had purchased a few more boxes of these. Chocolatey goodness!

On tap tonight when I get together with a couple of h.s. classmates:

Dip #2 ‘08

From a Rfenst herd thinning a couple years ago. One of my classmates just retired from Boeing, so sharing two other Dips to celebrate his retirement.

I have a box on its way to me. Never tried one, so glad to read your report on it.

Be patient. I smoked a couple from the box when they were relatively fresh and they were good, but the rest has been worth the wait.

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You might enjoy hearing that I used an eight-inch long drill bit, 3/32" diameter, with a battery drill motor to open up a too-tight cigar and it WORKED. I had to run it from the head lengthwise all the way through out the other end. Very tricky. I removed about a half teaspoon of tobacco from the core of it. This was a ring gauge 58 cigar and at 70% humidity so the wrapper didn't crack in the process. If you drill out a dry cigar you'll probably wreck the wrapper because you have to handle it a lot while drilling.

The cigar smoked just fine, only a little hard on the draw, but an enormous improvement because before drilling there was virtually NO draw and I couldn't even keep it lit. I took my cigar, drill bit and drill motor to the cigar shop to show the owner what was going on. The shop owner was so impressed he gave me another cigar for free just to thank me for the demonstration. He said he had had two customers come back complaining of hard draw cigars and he didn't know what to do about it. I suggested he could also offer long drill bits for sale, since most everyone already has a Makita battery drill.

I have a friend who travels to Cuba every year, and he told me the place to go is just about anywhere OUT OF HAVANA.

He likes to rent a car and drive out on any of the many remote dirt roads that go into the growing hillsides outside the city, and just keep going until you're about a third tank down on gas. Then look for a little old hut with an old man inside rolling cigars. He says there are thousands of these guys out there.

It helps to know some Spanish, but not entirely necessary. Just buy some cigars, you won't be disappointed.
He said his fondest memory was a very skilled artist who insisted on charging no more than ten cents per stick.
My friend tried to convince him that they were worth more than that but the old man was offended.
It was like, "They're only this much and if you don't like it then leave." So he liked it, very much, and bought about 20 boxes for something like $30 total. The old man was happy! The cigars were unforgettably great.

Not sure what to do about finding OLD CIGARS, but great cigars handmade by OLD MEN are a dime each, apparently.

Johnny O Genios from the December split, only about a 1/3 in and I was about to say they need more rest but it just took a turn for the better on me. I'll update when finished.

Update:

Finished really good. It had a creamy smoke to it with an oak and a touch a pepper profile on the retro for the final 2/3. I would say they are ready to be smoked but am going to sit on the next couple another 6 months to see how it changes. Might grab a corona next because burned one of those rott.

08 Monte Sublime.