Oh my God! I smoked about $30 dollars a day in Cohibas! (about 3 each day). I spent $800 bucks in 3 days. Mostly on cigars. I got Cohibas, Partagas, Predelictos, Punch and a nice long Bolivar. WOOHOO!! Only had a slight problem with the smokes being stored in a little more humidity than was actually good for them. They are doing fine in my humi-pouch now, but I will keep them in my small humi away from my other gems for about a month before I smoke them. They need time in an optimum environment first. I think a month at 70/70 will have them burning perfectly. Any thoughts?

I keep my ISOMS at about 65%. They seem to like it a little lower.

Did you find the little liquor store just up from The Shrimp Factory?

Let me know where you went. I had a real hard time finding any "real" ISOM's let alone any decently kept non-ISOM's in Mazatlan.

The one's I did find were way off the beaten path where I had to use my, barely enough, Spanish. I can't even remember the name of the store, but that had a lot to do with a Corona ingestion issue.

Mexico is hard to get the real deal.

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I did find the "Liquor Liquores" store. Nice Humidor, and they sold nothing but tubos which were all genuine, but no hygrometer! The humidity there was not too bad this time of year, but you could tell in most places the ISOM's were mexicans in disguise. I went to a site and printed out color copies and descriptions of the real deal bands and I am 100% certain of the ones I bought. There is a kid that works for me who used to work in a cigar shop for years. He is a definite wealth of knowledge and he was sure my box of babies was genuine. I was sure after I fired one up... I bought mine at Puros Puros and they were still in a sealed box with an authentic box code. I did have a predelictos that was genuine, but had a beetle hole in it. Lucky for me it was close to the end, so I clipped off about an inch with my double guillotine and smoked it anyway. It was still a great smoke but it burned alittle funky because it was a bit too moist from the humidity factor. All in all I am friggin' stoked.