Hope you enjoy Cheno . I sent you and Jgraz the exact same smokes I believe. I am trying to empty them boxes they are old .

Couple questions (…or so…):

1. How old is old?

2. Do you prefer younger smokes? If so, that’s why you’re getting rid them? If not then why are you getting rid of them?

3. Have you compared ROTT notes with Howard?

4. Cello on or cello off?

Nice well deserved haul, Cheno. Corey is on a roll!

This was the best thump I’ve heard since that Iranian Bell Helicopter experienced a hard landing and disintegrated. A mix of 14 enjoyable smokes and top rated never-hads. Thank you, John, for these sticks that are unique to me and for the familiar friends in the bag. Some of these I will rest a good long while and some of them I’ll get to in the next few months. I appreciate your thoughtful generosity.

Camacho Ecuador Rob, an under rated treat IMO

CAO Brazilia Rob, have some resting but NH

CAO Flathead Steel Horse Rob, NH and I’ve been curious about this one

DPG Serie JJ Belicoso, another tasty treat

DE Liga Privada No. 9, I’ve got 1 resting, now 2! Can’t wait - but will wait. NH

Flor de Oliva Orig Toro, smoked 1 from JGRAZ and enjoyed it :-)

Henry Clay Toro, I’ve smoked 1, good in-between smoker

LPH White Pearl Churchill Extra, nice tasty blend and takes 2+ hours to smoke

New World (AJF) Connie Toro - NH and been very curious

Oliva Serie G BP Maddie Church, NH and looking forward to trying

Padron 2000 Maddie, NH but reputation is stellar. This stick will get some rest.

Perdomo 10th Anniversary Champagne Belicoso, stout Connie, nice body

Southern Draw Manzanita Robusto, NH but have Lanceros resting. Will be excellent to compare vitolas.

Tobacos Baez / My Father Serie MF - NH but so far anything associated with/MF strikes me as special and definitely punching above its weight like a champ.

Just sayin….

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Beautiful

Speaking of bombardment!

TIVER 21 MAY ‘24

Tiver absolutely bombed me with 27 different cigars, 10 of which I have tried before and the rest are NH. I’ve received a couple of the NH from this forum but have not tried them yet. This gives me the opportunity to try more than just one before deciding if I want to buy more 20 years from now when I have made room in storage. There are a couple good ol’ yard ‘gars which are most welcome for sure, a handful of mid-tier sticks that are underrated, such as the Prensado and CAO Anniversary Cammie, a few LGC Serie R and Monte Media Noche which are perennial favorites and a couple of Padrons including a 1964 Anniversary Series Sobrano Maduro! (!!!). Tiver also did the grunt work of including an alphanumeric inventory w/dates received for each cigar; Yeoman’s work and very much appreciated. I didn’t do an inventory for my last 2 boxes I sent out but now I feel motivated to up my game.

Greg, this is generous in spirit and, not to be vulgar but, cold hard cash as well. I look forward to jumping right in w/some of these and others will get a nice long nap. Thank you very much for an awesome selection of favorites and never-hads. Truly over the top!

5 Vegas Triple-A Rob

AB Prensado Gran Toro

AJF Last Call Maduro Geniales

Abuelo / United Cigars Nieto Rob

Buffalo Trace Toro

Cohiba Nica Rob

Cohiba Red Dot Rob

Camacho Corojo Rob

CAO L’Anniversaire Cammie Rob

Cuesta Rey Centenario #60 Maddie

Dom Cream Rob

Graycliff 10yr Vintage Maddie Pirate (Torpedo)

J Garcia Reserva Especial Rob

LGC Serie R Rob

LGC Serie R Maddie Rob

MOW Side Project Wedge

MOW Side Project, Little Devil (Corona)

Montecristo Media Noche Edmundo (Rob)

Oliva Serie ‘O’ Rob

Padron 1964 Anniversary Series Sobrano Maddie

Padron 2000 Rob Maddie

Ramon Bueso Gen Conn Toro

RP Sun Grown Rob Maddie

RyJ Reserva #4 (Corona) Maddie

San Cristobal Revelation Church Sun Grown

San Lotano Requiem Rob Maddie

Southern Draw Quickdraw Corona Gorda PBL

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Corey, daggum dude. First, thank you very much, seriously. Second, my storage is wrecked, seriously. You sank my battleship! I will get a full report out later, this is going to take a minute. Or several hours. Just wanted you to know that the enormous box made it in tact. I’m seriously overwhelmed with your generosity.

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Your response was exactly how I hoped you would view things. Upon buying some of the budget cigars on CBid we often wonder if they will be at all worth our time. Then have to further wonder what if they had 12 mos of rest, would they smoke any better? Most of the CBid stuff on the list has 8 - 18 mos on them. That ought to give some idea for those smokes. Then there's a couple curiosity smokes like the MOW side projects.

The mid range stuff is just that, but hoping to get you a few you might not have tried.

I know you and I like Danm reviews from the smokin' azzhats thread and from the spring '24 blind review pass. When he wrote glowingly (blindly) about the Buffalo Trace and I knew I'd had some for a year or so, I thought that would be something you could jump into as soon as acclimated. It will be interesting to see how you like it. Hell, I haven't smoked but one, when they were ROTT, so I will see for myself as well.

If you haven't had an AJF Last Call maddie, I say there pretty solid for a $3-$4 cigar. I like 'em quite well.

The Dominican Creams were one of the first things I ever bought on CBid several year ago. I think I paid $.90 ea for them.🙄 I remember you asking about them months ago. Pretty sure they're a mixed filler. I included 2 of them for a little nostalgia. Super mild.

Enjoy

Can't wait to see Corey's blast as well.

Jake, take your time brother. Waiting on some new containers to arrive for more storage anyway.

COREY 21 MAY ‘24

Lesson learned. The more you eff around, the more you find out. Corey hit me with an unbelievably generous and enormous MOAB. Several high quality singles, a couple full collector boxes, another unique collector item “De Culebro”, and a brand new refillable torch lighter. Most of these are dated 2017 and 2018 and the only cigars I have that are older than 6 or 7 months are a few singles I’ve received as gifts from other brothers. I expect to be claimed as an exemption on Corey’s 2024 tax filing. Corey, this is truly over the top generosity. I would not have bought myself a variety of this many top shelf cigars in 6 months or more. This is greatly appreciated, I’m excited to have them, and I will carefully rest / age them and smoke them all (which I can hardly wait to do!). Thank you so much, Corey.

Loose sticks:

AVO Fogata Toro

AVO RITMO Toro

Balmoral Sig Ser Paso Doble Gran Toro

DE De Culebro Medusa braid, in box

DE Undercrown Toro

DE Undercrown Maddie Toro

Espinosa Laranja Toro (x2)

LFD 1994 Toro

LFD Air Bender Toro

LFD Cammie Cabinet Toro

LFD Coronado (x3)

LFD Dbl Ligero Chisel

Rojas St Taco Carnitas Toro (x2)

Boxed / packaged:

LFD Toro 6 Selection Sampler box

Oliva Master 4 BP Sampler box

Room 101 Master Collection 3 cigar / collector box of 20

Tatuaje Black, Corona / collector box of 20

Xikar refillable torch new in box

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