whats the best store bought cigar?

[Patriotguy]

Whats the latest or greatest Stick you've had recently?

 

[waikikigun]

Whats the latest or greatest Stick you've had recently?

Cuban H.Upmann corona gorda.

 

[snowboardin58]

It's REAALLLY hard to beat anything from Padron, for me. Especially the maduro-wrapped sticks. Also anything from a Pepin factory. But Padron....

 

[TigerTom]

Just one? I can't decide, so I'll give you a few I've been enjoying lately:

Tabernacle, by Foundation Cigars. Great stick. CT Broadleaf Maduro, Mexican binder, Nicaraguan and Hunduran filler.

The Tabernacle "Havana Seed CT 142" (haha) is also excellent. Havana 142 wrapper over same binder and fillers, but there is less Honduran in the filler. (I laugh because the marketing calls it Havana Seed CT 142, when it's really just Havana 142 grown in Connecticut.)

Someone in another thread mentioned the excellent flavor of using all of the Corojo primings offered by WLT to roll a puro, so I'd also like to mention the Aladino Corojo line, by Julio Eiroa (same family who used to own Camacho). All Corojo - wrapper, binder and filler. Excellent smoke. First time I tried one I lit it and immediately grabbed a second one to take home to my wife.

Oliva Master Blends 3. Tasty, balanced flavors, especially after I let them rest in my humidor.

My Father Le Bijou 1922.

I have to agree with snowboardin58 that anything from the Pepín factory is excellent.

I know, not just one great one, but several.

There are others I really enjoy, but I haven't had them recently.

 

[dubhelix]

Don Pepin Garcia “Cuban classic” black

 

[deluxestogie]

Havana Seed CT 142, when it's really just Havana 142 grown in Connecticut.

What is remarkable about that is the fact that nobody has grown Havana 142 commercially for a long time--other than us home-growers. So that must have been a special, contract grow-out (perhaps inspired by exposure on this and other forums). The cigar makers in the DR have recently been contract growing all sorts of obscure and minor (and occasionally awful) tobacco varieties, in a push to differentiate themselves in an overcrowded, over-branded market.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

CAO Piloné
Casa Turrent 1880
Vega Fina Nicaragua

 

[burge]

Cohiba for me great stick

 

[snowboardin58]

Cabaiguan Guapos Maduro (Cabaiguan is a line by Tatuaje, Guapos is a line extension)

 

[Ben Brand]

Oliva - Serie V Melanio Figurado
Flippen nice!!!!!

 

[berz324]

I had an H.R. blue toro that was fantastic a couple days ago.

And my wife enjoyed the AJ Fernandez Magic Toast so much she grabbed a couple more lol.

 

[Mathaious12]

Not a big fan of Gurkha, but had a yakuza that was surprisingly good.

 

[HighDesertHippie]

I have always been a fan of those trashy acid cigars...

 

[tullius]

I have always been a fan of those trashy acid cigars...

Fixed it for ya..

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Fixed it for ya..

Be nice. He's new here. You know, that reminds me, Don Rey of Puerto Rico rolls his own brand, but for some reason was also a fan of the Acid line. Definitely a love or hate cigar.

 

[tullius]

No offense meant to highdesert. All offense directed at those things drew estate hucks. You know what side I'm on.

 

[CobGuy]

I had a Nica Libre 25th Anniversary last night and it was very good for that price point.

 

[HighDesertHippie]

No offense meant to highdesert. All offense directed at those things drew estate hucks. You know what side I'm on.

Honestly I used to be a lot more into smoking nicer sticks before I came to the Carson desert. I haven't found a single distributor that knows how to keep their stock at a stable humidity up here, let alone when you take it out to smoke it.

Heavily flavored or trashy seems to survive drying out instantly when you light them in my experience

 

[HighDesertHippie]

To be fair, I haven't found a single place with license to sell tobacco in fernley or fallon that sells any type of tobacco that isn't at least a little dry. The moment you pop an American spirit lid the plastic breaks in 2 days from how dry it is here...sticks sold individually? Cellophane does not protect against that level of desiccation at all, the humidors at the small gas stations and native smoke shops always seem to still be incredibly dry....no way am I driving all the way to Reno for a stick anytime soon sadly.

All good reasons I am here with you guys now growing my own

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I feel your pain. I worked up north once and managed to clear an entire town out of their pipe tobacco. Being in the city, one takes for granted the availability of things.