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La Gloria Cubana, Cuenca 5 Anniversary, Arandoza White and a Velvet Rat Cigar
Friday evening I dove into the Adorini Cedro – Deluxe humidor and came out with a La Gloria Cubana Serie N GSB, which is a nice chunky robusto size at 5½”x 54. I haven’t smoked one of these in a long time and I really enjoyed them. Unlike the new Serie R Black and Esteli, these are a heavily Nicaraguan blend rolled in the El Credito Portion of the General Cigar factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic. This is the nice, dark maduro with the little “N” of lighter colored leaf pasted on the cigar. I’ll never forget seeing the bench in the factory where they painstakingly apply each one perfectly. The have a hand punch that makes the “N”s and they are scattered all over the place. It’s a wonder they can sell these as inexpensively as they do. I picked this particular one up at my birthday party at CI in August along with a couple of the Serie R Black. I love the rich, hearty flavor of the Serie N, although this one burned a little funky through the first half until it evened out. It happens. It was a lovely smoke and I seriously need to get more of these. The humidor is still 90% La Gloria Cubana, and holds humidity like a champ. I’ve said before that this is a solid box, and out-performs the Griffins humidor I have. BTW, the Griffins humidor does a nice job too, except I have to lock it to keep the lid fully closed. The Adorini’s lid drops with a soft whoosh and doesn’t need to be locked to stay closed. That’s the only real complaint I have with the Griffin’s box, it’s truly a great looking humidor. I keep all my Liga Privadas and cigars I blended on my trips to Cigar Safari.
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An Arandoza, a La Aurora, an Upmann, a Tatuaje and a Tobacco History Lesson
This week was a bit of a blur, welcome to summer, the fastest season of the year! I guess I just love the hot weather, spending time in the pool with a nice cigar, or jumping in the pool and taking a walk with a cigar afterwards. That’s why the summer is gone before I know it. It’s a much more pleasant time than winter when you can’t get enough clothes on to keep warm! Case in point, I got home from work Thursday and jumped in the pool, then took a Arandoza Blue Label Robusto for a walk. This is a new cigar that’s made in the La Zona factory in Esteli by Erik Espinosa for a gentleman named Robert Arango. I’ve smoked a few of these and enjoyed them. It’s a tasty, medium to full bodied cigar that is well made. I haven’t smoked much out of the LA Zona factory, but what I have smoked I’ve enjoyed. This is priced in the $6-7 range which is pretty good for a small boutique brand. I’ll have to look for Arandoza Cigars at the IPCPR show. Continue reading
A Nub, an Arandoza, and Herfin to the Oldies! A Good Cigar Week
First off, a little administrative business. I mentioned before that I have just changed web hosting companies, and with that transition came some minor changes to the URLs associated with older posts. Without getting into the boring details, if anyone out there has a link to a post of mine, please edit out the “/blog” part and everything will be fine! I have things set up so that any click on one of those old links redirects to the home page, which isn’t ideal, I really want people to be able to find what they are looking for. I’m open to suggestions from those more technically adept at this stuff than I am. Enough of the minutia, on with the cigars! Continue reading
Weekend Cigars: An Undercrown, an Arandoza and a CroMagnon
As I was rummaging through the humidor Thursday evening I came across a Drew Estate Undercrown Robusto that I didn’t realize I had. Finding cigars is a special treat, and this event must be celebrated by smoking the new-found treasure, and an Undercrown is a treasure. If to don’t know the story behind cigar yet, it was basically blended by the Liga Privada roller to replace the No. 9 cigars they were not allowed to smoke due to the scarcity of the wrapper leaf. The replaced the components with similar, but less used leaf and replaced the wrapper with a rich and oily San Andreas capa. Continue reading
Protocol, Hoyo de Monterrey and Diesel Cigars
A few weeks back I bought a five pack of Protocol Churchills from Discount Cigar Warehouse. From what I know, this was exclusive to them and Churchills aren’t available in all the blends regularly. I happen to be a big fan of the Churchill size, although these are only 6½” x 48, not quite the 7″ x 47 that is truly a Churchill. Call it what you will, it’s still a great size in my book. Continue reading
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