What cubans are ya smoking? · Page 268

Trinidad Coloniales, Mar 2020, very tasty...complex blend of grass, caramel and floral notes

as noted above, given the current prices for Cuban cigars and especially Trinidad, I'm slowing down my consumption to extend my pleasure...down to a handful of these beauties...

like Palama said, with the benefit of foresight, I woulda spent way more on Cuban cigars a few years ago, before their prices jumped into the stratosphere

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Jakethesnake86
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a year ago

#5345

Montecristo open junior from yaro. Great short cigar. If these weren’t the price they are I would be buying a box or 2

I’m the snake

deadeyedick
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a year ago

#5346

Alex Custom roll CG from '17 (Alejandro Gonzalez Arias house roller at Hotel Comodoro Havana)

Wish I could get more but it ain't happening.

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rfenst
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a year ago

#5347

PLPCs with Cheno while he was in town.

jeebling
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a year ago

#5348

Partagas, with many thanks to LeeBot

Palama
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a year ago

#5349

Bolivar Tubos No. 2
MUR AUG13

Thanks to DED. Rick RAOK'd me a 5er of these back in 2016 during the Craft Beer / Cigar Pass.

deadeyedick
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a year ago

#5350

Bolivar Tubos No. 2
MUR AUG13

Thanks to DED. Rick RAOK'd me a 5er of these back in 2016 during the Craft Beer / Cigar Pass.

Palama wrote:

👍

HU HC Feb '20

deadeyedick
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a year ago

#5351

Quai D’Orsay Corona '18

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Palama
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a year ago

#5352

Bolivar Coronas Junior
FEB 19

Mahalo to my South Dakota Braddah-from-Another-Mother, Youngra

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jeebling
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a year ago

#5353

Trinidad Coloniales w/thanks to DELTA1

rfenst
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a year ago

#5354

Trinidad Coloniales w/thanks to DELTA1

jeebling wrote:

GREAT cigar!

jeebling
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a year ago

#5355

GREAT cigar!

rfenst wrote:

I must agree with you. The creamy lemon twang makes a believer out of me!

deadeyedick
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a year ago

#5356

Juan Lopez #2 '19

delta1
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a year ago

#5357

^ #5373 - glad you liked the Trini, jeebs...

Montecristo No. 2, from 2008, big pyramid that after 15 years, still kicked my azz...not sure if this is still a regular production vitola...there is a Petit No. 2, but I don't see a regular No. 2 at the usual places...the going price for the Petit is a ridiculous $750/15box...another CC that is beyond reach to replace when I smoke them up...

Palama
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a year ago

#5358

delta1 wrote:

I *thought* I saw #2s back in stock at one of the trusted sites but the price was so ridiculously high that all I could do was laugh and move on. Iirc, I have 1 more #2 left and should save it for a very special occasion.

Unless there’s a drastic downturn in the pricing or a fairy tale financial windfall, I probably won’t be buying ANY Cuban cigars for the rest of my smoking life. Even private inventory thinnings / eliminations are too much for my fixed income budget.

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delta1
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a year ago

#5359

The producers of Cuban cigars hiked prices drastically a few years ago, during the pandemic, claiming a shortage of tobacco leaves due to storms. Enough consumers were willing then, and continue to pay the exorbitant prices.

Now the producers of Cuban cigars have no incentive to increase production and/or to reduce prices.

Meanwhile, the prices of non-Cuban cigars have crept up. The prices of "top tier" stuff have gone up faster and higher.

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Huzza3045
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a year ago

#5360

The MC #2 is the only cc I've smoked and it was stellar. Sad to see that they are hiking up the prices so bad.

Hope that they come back down in my lifetime, would love to pick up a box.

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