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Last night's RASS (2016) & HDMEE (2017). Now with Sir Winston (2017). All from our gracious host. Thank you FOH!

Gaaad damn. Yeah it’s out of control. 😱

Siglo IV - ESM JUN 24

Congratulations 🎉

The XO is my favorite cutter.

They do remind me of an upmarket Xikar XO cutter, only that cigar cutter was round!

Lately it's been 6-10. Staples (Partagas D4/HdM No. 2/etc.) are still $20-$25 singles, despite the high tax here in the Middle East. I've noticed pricing on premium brands do not follow any logic, as Cohiba and Trinidad are 20-30% higher than posted on this forum.

They look ok?. Not too sure about the octagonal shape. Could see myself dropping and juggling that one.

Nothing new under the sun: "No one can tell me what is a good cigar—for me," Twain wrote in "Concerning Tobacco," an essay published in the early 1890s. "I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house. They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box. Now then, observe what superstition, assisted by a man's reputation, can do. I was to have twelve personal friends to supper one night. One of them was as notorious for costly and elegant cigars as I was for cheap and devilish ones. I called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed a double handful of his very choicest; cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red-and-gold labels in sign of their nobility. I removed the labels and put the cigars into a box with my favorite brand on it—a brand which those people all knew, and which cowed them as men are cowed by an epidemic. They took these cigars when offered at the end of the supper, and lit them and sternly struggled with them—in dreary silence, for hilarity died when the fell brand came into view and started around—but their fortitude held for a short time only; then they made excuses and filed out, treading on one another's heels with indecent eagerness; and in the morning when I went out to observe results the cigars lay all between the front door and the gate. All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot. One or two whiffs was all he could stand. He told me afterward that some day I would get shot for giving people that kind of cigars to smoke."

99% Cubans only. So they get the full journey. On the odd occasion I do smoke a Non-Cuban (and I do ask for forgiveness). I find the finish incredibly short for the first half. They do flatten out and turn dirty for me. Highly unlikely to make two thirds through. That sickening taste tends to linger on my palate.

Bangers and Mash, John. Yum!

I live in Australia. What's a B&M?

Congratulations @zacca!

Congratulations, @ryre. Well done!

Always 2 or 3. Often a box of something, just depends on what's around. I should buy less than I smoke hahaha.

Usually to the nub, if not great to the band, and if terrible either flavour or construction wise then when my patience can take no more (and oddly, that's only happened three times, and never with a Cuban cigar either).

It depends on where I am. - In Kanuckistan, then 1 or 2 usually. - In Cuba, I maxed out. - Somewhere else with decent pricing would be 5-50. Cheers!

Congrats @zacca! Cheers

Nice one!

I would suspect ball game for everyone, at least for a while.

Congrats!!

Congratulations!

I’m in the “the cigar let's me know” camp, but almost always to the nub. If it gets put down sooner, either it has bored me or something unexpected (kids) requires my immediate attention.

Congrats!