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A Romeo y Julieta Montague, a Padrón and a Paul Stulac Cigar

RyJ_Montague RobustoA few weeks ago, you may recall, we culminated the 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways with a special Day 13 featuring Famous Smoke Shop‘s two new proprietary Romeo y Julieta cigars, the House of Capulet and the House of Montague.  Honestly, I always feel better giving away cigars I’ve smoked before and can comment on, but when they have a great pedigree and I know the folks behind them I’m OK with it.  When I was shopping for the Compounds, Elements and Musings Vanadium box a couple weeks ago I decided to pay a little more than I had to and use one of the coupon codes Famous Smoke Shop provided and get a free five pack of the Romeo y Julieta House of Montague Robustos along with it.  Of course, I couldn’t resist smoking one of them this week.  This is a 5″ x 54 chunky robusto with a nice, Brazilian maduro wrapper, with a Dominican Olor binder and Dominican, Brazilian and Nicaraguan fillers.  I found it to be a nice, well made cigar on the medium side with solid chocolate/cocoa maduro flavor. This is a cigar I would share with friends without hesitation, that is if I don’t smoke the four more myself!  Here are the discount codes again, if you happen to make a purchase from Famous Smoke Shop give these a try! Also, if Mickey, the winner of This year’s day 13 wants to send me reviews, I’d be happy to include them here, he can be an honorary “Craig” for a day!

 

Discount codes:

CAPULET5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet with any $75+ purchase

MONTAGUE5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague with any $75+ purchase

CAPULET20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet

MONTAGUE20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague

 

Pardon_3000MadNew Years Eve I stopped in to one of my local shops,  JM Cigars, for a couple cigars and walked out with a few Padrón 3000 Maduros. I would have gotten 2000s, but they didn’t have any maduros at the time. The 3000 is 5 ½ x 52 and isn’t the prettiest cigar, it’s rustic, but it’s a classic Nicaraguan puro which has been on the market for quite a while, and has remained pretty much the same.  Padrón is the model of consistency, and they remain at the top of the heap in the cigar business without releasing new lines all the time.  This is probably why I’ve been negligent in smoking Padrón cigars in the last few years, too many new cigars to smoke!  So, after lighting this cigar Friday evening, I found myself wondering why the heck I let this happen.  This is a great smoke, right in my personal wheelhouse.  It’s got kind of a dry, dusty cocoa flavor, with perfect draw and burn. I must make a note to keep more of these on hand, and maybe even grab a couple of the 2000 naturals to reacquaint myself with that side of the line. As awesome as the Padrón “Thousand Series” cigars are, I know the Anniversary series are even more awesome, but I still have trouble shelling out that kind of dough for a cigar.  I may have to break down and do it one of these days though. I probably haven’t smoked one of the high end Padróns since a Millenium back about ten or so years ago.

 

PaulStulac_AngelYesterday I figured I’d try something new to me, and selected a Paul Stulac Angel out of the IPCPR sample humidor.  I think I’ve smoked a Paul Stulac cigar before, I seem to recall smoking a Skull torpedo, but I really don’t remember the cigar and I didn’t include it in a blog post. This Angel is another chunky robusto (I was trying to figure out if I had a theme this time, and that theme seems to be chunky robustos, but it was strictly coincidence!) at 5″ x 58, although it didn’t really feel that fat to me. This is listed as “available in Ecuadorian or Brazilian Maduro Wrapper”, and I have no idea which one I smoked, but my guess is the Brazilian Maduro because it was pretty dark and didn’t taste to me like a Habano.  It was a good smoke, well behaved and tasty to a finger burning nub. There was a flavor that was interesting, and maybe a little overwhelming, and I don’t quite know how to describe it except for perhaps mesquite, it was a savory flavor.  This was definitely different from what I generally reach for, which is cool, that’s why there are so many cigars! If they all tasted the same it wouldn’t be any fun. IF the FDA gets a hold of premium cigars we can say goodbye to new and different cigars, so join Cigar Rights of America and write to your elected officials! Paul Stulac is (or was) a Canadian cigar retailer, ask him what it’s like in Canada with their regulations! Blacked out windows, no displays, no events, you can’t even look at the cigars you want to purchase. We don’t want that to happen here!

 

That’s all I got, until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

 

 

 

 

 

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CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Final Winner and Wrap Up

NOW it’s over. Seriously. No day 14, it’s time to put this puppy to bed. It was another terrific year of contests thanks to all of the sponsors and to all of  you for following along every day,  getting up early to enter, and all of the winners for getting to me promptly.  I’ll be shipping the last two packages from here today, and I heard from Barry at Miami Cigar and Co. that he will be shipping today too. As always, I couldn’t do it without the support of my wife, she has to put up with a lot of my insanity for a good month straight. Over the course of  nearly two weeks we gave away 245 cigars, along with some hats, t-shirts and cutters. That’s hard to beat!

This year’s sponsors were, in order of appearance:

Gurkha
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Leccia Tobacco
Legacy Brands
Flor de Gonzalez
Kings Cigars
La Aurora
La Palina
Miami Cigar and Co.
Villiger Cigars
Drew Estate
Torano Family Cigars
Famous Smoke Shop

Please visit these companies sites and check out their great offerings and thank them when you have an opportunity.  They don’t have to give stuff away like this, but it’s awfully nice that they do.

 

One last piece of business we need to get out  of the way, then we can get back to business as usual!  We need a winner for the two boxes of Romeo y Julieta cigars from Famous Smoke Shop.  Don’t forget to use the discount codes to get yourself some great deals at Famous Smoke Shop through January!

Discount codes:

CAPULET5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet with any $75+ purchase

MONTAGUE5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague with any $75+ purchase

CAPULET20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet

MONTAGUE20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague

 

OK, so the winner of the Capulets and Montagues is comment number 6, which I’ve determined belongs to irratebass! Mickey, please sent me your address so I can pass it along to Travis at Famous!

 

That’s it! Hope everyone enjoyed the ride and had a happy holiday! Now I have to start thinking of stuff to write about again!

 

Until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

 

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CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 13: Famous Smoke Shop

It’s been a long ride, but it’s not over yet!  I was quite pleased to have had such a great response from my friends in the cigar business, and I feel bad that there were a couple people who showed interest in participating early that I didn’t follow up with because I had plenty already, and I just don’t have the time to go chasing after people!  I think everyone will agree that this whole thing was pretty spectacular anyway. So, of course, we can’t just let it end at 12 days like rational human beings. And because tomorrow’s Christmas Day, I’m going to wait until Thursday to close the contest and announce a winner, so you have two whole days to enter! If you haven’t entered before, all new comments have to be approved, so please be patient if you don’t see your comment appear immediately, I’ll get to it.  Let’s figure out who won yesterday’s Box of Toraño Family Cigar Co. Blends from the Vault D-042 Robustos and the awesome leather cigar case! Zakk Morrow was the name that came up, so please forward your address so I can send it off to the folks at Toraño! What’s in store for our bonus day? Read on:

 

 Day 13!

Since we went to 13 days last year, you might have expected this otherwise unlikely turn of events. To put a little twist on things, and since it is Tuesday, that makes it Two-fer Tuesday again! Famous Smoke Shop is the sponsor of today’s extra special CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 finale. Under the tree are two boxes of Romeo y Julieta cigars which are Famous Smoke Shop Exclusives. First is one box of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet Toro cigar features a smooth blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers, a Nicaraguan binder, and a creamy Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper.

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You can’t have Juliet with Romeo, right? So the second present is one box of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague Toro. This has a Brazilian Maduro wrapper, a Dominican Olor binder and a blend of Nicaraguan, Dominican, and Brazilian long-fillers. Both come in boxes of 20 cigars and will ship directly from Famous Smoke Shop. Both sound super tasty!

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What a prize, right?  As if that wasn’t all, The folks at Famous Smoke Shop wanted everyone to win, so they have given me some discount codes for you to use to get discounts on the Romeo y Julieta Capulets and Montagues, OR, free Romeo y Julieta Capulet and Montague Five-packs with another purchase! These codes will be good through January. Use them! You know you’re buying cigars anyway!  Special thanks to Travis Lord and all the folks at Famous Smoke Shop for pushing us to Day 13 with an especially nice Two-fer Tuesday present! See that? Everyone wins! 

 

Discount codes:

CAPULET5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet with any $75+ purchase

MONTAGUE5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague with any $75+ purchase

CAPULET20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet

MONTAGUE20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague

 

Rules

Here’s how you enter: leave a comment.  That’s it, plain and simple.  Tweets don’t count, but feel free to spread the word, only comments on this page count as an entry.  Each day there will be a different prize and the winner will be drawn from that day’s comments. The winner will be announced on the next day’s post. The contest is open to everyone, even if you’ve won one of my contests in the past six months, but once you’ve won, you are ineligible to win again in this series of contests. All prizes will be mailed as soon as I get a chance to go to the post office, or whenever the sponsor decides to ship, whichever is the case, so don’t make me chase down your address!  If you won, please e-mail your contact information to craig@cigarcraig.com as soon as possible! That’s it, leave a comment to enter and good luck. Check back tomorrow to see if you won and enter tomorrow’s contest!

 

Until Thursday,

 

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CigarCraig

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