Have any of you formed a similar opinion or am I missing something? I know they are made by the same company at probably the same factory. Perhaps the tobacco is aged slightly longer in the LP9?
I know these have been around for a few years, so I apologize if I am 🐴.
LP9 has lost the depth of flavor I thought it used to have and now it's an overpriced muted strong cigar. IMO
They can be somewhat one-dimensional,,,,but it's a flavor I like.
Thing is for me, about 1 out of 3 is really good.
Inconsistent, but in a good way.
I have a good stash of them, purchased back when you get get them on the cheap......those days are over.....so I'll likely not be buying them again for a while....if ever.
Never cared for the no 9, prefer the T52s.
But never thought they were similar.
Not a big fan of DE in general, bout a brick of bait fish once, I smoked them, I liked that they were 4 x 40, but that's about it.
Bait fish seemed to have a high percentage of unraveling for me, guess I could have just got a bad brick. I even tried to make the cut as slim as I could.
Only LP I've tried was a No 9, didn't care for it especially at it's price point.
Z says they got worse, I tried mine a few months ago from a shpo, so maybe that's why I wasn't impressed.
ZRX1200 wrote:
+1 on that. was really surprised when I did a blind review of the LP9, I thought it was a yard gar.
the under crown were pretty good but lost a lot of that flavor I remember from them. I would agree with kingofthecove that they are one dimensional now, but I still like the flavor of it as well. if you can get them for a reasonable price I would pick up a few of the UC, as I prefer them over the LP9 as well but finding them for the right price isn't so easy any more but happens from time to time.
I think LP9's age fine, it's just that the newer ones aren't the same to me. To be fair my tastes have changed, but I still smoke strong cigars every once in awhile like Gurkhas and PDRs and Puros Indios.
Z rockin the chit!
you justa gangsta
I do keep a stock of Baitfish on hand too, that's the one DE that I really like.
If they taste the same to you stick with the UC,much cheaper🍺
bassman45 wrote:
They taste virtually the same, the LP9 is a bit smoother after it gets going to me. The biggest thing I pick out is sweet tobacco and creamy taste.
Do a search for Smoking Monk. Someone recently smoked one.
collectorchris wrote:
IIRC, most of the filler is the same or very similar, maybe different primings though. The 9, 52, UC, MF4, L40, etc all have very similar blends. The wrappers are different, I can't remember about the binder.
I can't remember which lines it was, but I recall there was one where they flip-flopped the binder and wrapper, meaning if cigar 1 had high-priming binder from country A and mid-priming wrapper from country B, cigar 2 used upper mid / lower top-priming B for the wrapper and mid priming A for the binder? I forget if that was DE that did that for this cigar or it might have been something that someone else did.
