I’m considering ordering some cigars for the first time in 10+ years. Since C-Bid no longer carries my (old) favorite brands, I was hoping to ask someone here what’s the best way to obtain ISOM’s? It used to be ordering via HK, but as I says it’s been a decade or more since I paid attention to that sort of thing.

Also, brands. I used to love PSD #4’s & RyJ #2’s & 3’s, but what about lesser known brands that are similar in flavor to what I mentioned?

Thx

Had my first HDM San Juan....very nice, but not sure if it was a good as my HDM fav....Epicure Especial...sorry Hankster

What lesser known CC brands are good to try?

QDO for sure.

Don't know what it is, given to me by another BOTL.

Tag says J.O. E.L. LAG#2 6-13

I'm digging the flavor but draw is super tight. Still burning evenly though.

Fonseca too

LFdC.

And, I'm not sure I'd call them lesser known, but the current Trinidad vigias and LGC MdO4 are smoking phenomenally well right now. Very different profile than the Partagas and RyJ you mentioned though.

PSD4. Jul 14

This weekend:

Cohiba Maduro 5, 10/14

Punch RS #12, 04/07

HdM EE, 10/16

HU Connoisseur #1, 05/07

Diplomáticos, El Rey del Mundo & La Gloria Cubana top my list of the lessor/local brands. In no particular order. 🌫

Man, I had one of those guys a little while back. Best cigar I've had in months. Shame they are all gone now.

HdM for both me and my Dad while we were cooking pizzas in the Big Green Egg.

Boli BBF '17

Boli RC......doesnt get any better

LGC MdO #4, 06/02

Hu corona major

RyJ CenC

May 07

HDM San Juan....good but not a Epicure Especial

HU #2

No favorite here I know but I recently smoked a Jose L. Piedra Conservas from an order my friend had just received from Geneva. Not a complex or powerful cigar but definitely a delicious smoke. Not even aged and the flavor rocks.