I started out the week grilling some pork chops and felt compelled to smoke one of the cigars out of the Punch Grill box. I selected the Punch Rare Corojo, since I’ve had these in the past and enjoyed them. This example was no different. This one was the 5¼” x 54 Magnum. The pork chops were good, and the cigar capped off a busy day very nicely. The Ecuador Sumatra wrapper was nice and tasty and the cigar burned quite well.
I’ve been “theme smoking” lately, so I grabbed a Partagas Cifuentes Julio (also from General Cigars) out of the humidor and went for a nice long walk. These are apparently seasonal blends, and I jumped the gun a little smoking a July cigar in May. Sorry about that. It still was a nice cigar. It was medium bodied with a long finish, tongue coating in a not unpleasant way. I had to correct the burn a few times and it wanted to tunnel a little, but both are forgivable considering how much I enjoyed the flavor. These are fairly beefy cigars in a 6″ x 54 format. This was a single that was amongst the goodies sent by my buddy Jason at Rock’s Smoke Shop. Thanks! Another winner from that collection.
I received a very nice delivery today from Vegas de Santiago. You may recall one of my loyal readers, DJ, kindly sent me a couple of these to smoke and I enjoyed them quite a bit. Rudy and Lani in Costa Rica are making some very nice cigars in beautiful presentations. One of these weeks real soon will be Vegas de Santiago week and I’ll smoke and review (and I use that term loosely, I’m a crappy reviewer!) some of them. I have a cigar from an event that they sponsored back in 2004 that I will finally smoke to compare and contrast. The wooden tubes are really cool and almost too cool to open.
Here’s another site for the blog junkies: Cigar TopSite. This is a simple listing of some of the more popular sites. CigarCraig.com has been listed there since the beginning. I’d LOVE to see it climb up the rankings, so if you wouldn’t mind spreading the word, I’d appreciate it. I’m almost as bad at self-promotion as I am at cigar reviews. I know what you’re thinking: “if more people follow the CigarCraig.com blog then there will be less chances for me to win some of the great stuff Craig gives away!” I understand, but the more readers I have, the better my chances of mooching quality goodies to give to you, my loyal readers (there will be a new contest soon!).
Well, that’s about enough from me, until the next time,
CigarCraig
Oh yeah…..GO FLYERS!
I have a few of teh VdS cedar humis for gifting… but I can’t part with them!
One quick Post script on this post. http://www.cigartopsite.com seems to be no more. Some time last August (2010) the site was hacked or otherwise began distributing malware. My site was blocked until I removed the script, and several other very popular sites were down for a while getting things cleaned up. Therefore, I have removed the link from the above post, but left the text intact.