I'm sure Tony has a few questions for you.

P.S. Frank has been worried sick!

Nah I can't say that I have. I'm not much of a Conn. Shade guy.

I think I only have one of them in my collection at the moment and only because it was part of a sampler.

Smoke what you like. I'd say order another box if you want em.

different Charlie...I'm not as worried as you'd think.

I’mma not necessarily a fan of Connies either but some of the newer Connie blends are much stronger than previous releases. For a change of pace, I’ve enjoyed the MFConnie, Montecristo White, Rojas Breakfast Carnitas and Southern Draw Rose of Sharon blends. Of course ymmv.

As mentioned, My Father and Rose of Sharon

LFD makes a nice connie

AJ has a couple…

Perdomo has one or two…

There are others…

Aurora Preferidos is a Connie that I enjoy. The La Palina White Pearl is a cheap one that delivers IMHO, great dog walker / yard ‘gar

Karen Berger Connecticut too

Some do hold up to age.

Undercrown Shade comes to mind. Unless they changed the blend significantly from the OR, they're better with a year on em. I recently bought two boxes and tried one a month later and found it to be just straight paper n pepper. I remember them being a nice pleasant sweet nutty creamy bready smoke with a lil pepper on retro. But my first box was also bought and forgotten about for a year before I opened it, so I'm letting these new boxes sleep till next year before I try another.

Undercrown Shade is the one Connecticut Shade that I have. Guess I'll wait a while to smoke it.

MF Connecticut is on my list, but when it comes down to ordering I always end up getting a non-shade cigars instead.

Something that I want to try more, or something I want to replace/stock up on.

I did like the Perdomo Champagne, but still haven't purchased more of them.

I’ll definitely try to put some age on a few Connies

Methinks them are some glass top box "cuban" cigars.