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Great idea sounds like a great time!

Is there a prize for being the most wrong? 🫣

The cigars I purchased included Petit Quintero, and information I gathered from other websites also included PSD4, D5, and Mille Fleurs

Had to get one in before the wife's cold hit me 😄

Carlota. These post 60 days are magnificent.

Carlota with some smash burgers. Bakery and milk chocolate. Soo good.

Very bland. Was hard to pull notes out. Bitter chocolate and earthy. Smooth retro. Would try 1 more before writing it off.

Dealing with some storm cleanup for the last few weekends and likely the next few months. The Oxford, MS area got hammered by an ice storm. Looks like a hurricane came through. We have quite a few rental properties and a farm in the area. Quite the cleanup effort underway. There must be a few hundred professional debris removal teams in town… massive truck and trailer rigs that have their own crane for loading and unloading. When the power goes out and it doesn’t get above freezing for a week, things get a little worrisome. All in all, we feel fortunate. I still can’t believe we didn’t have more frozen water pipes. The good news? It’s not August.

The saga continues... https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/bill-belichick-facing-calls-end-185659639.html

Some news is circulating about a warning of the closure of the country’s 9 airports due to a lack of jet fuel. Limitations with the landing aid/safety systems are making the situation worse.

Thank you for taking the time to share that with us. This 👆🏼 is disconcerting and unfortunately, not surprising. Good on you, Alex

love navazos. the de borts is always good as well.

link will be emailed ot all in 10 mins

Someone else did most of the work. That looks wet & fresh for certain. I got a handful of each of the EL25s, but I'm not in a rush. It's a journey, no secret.

I have to hand it to you guys for holding off on smoking these for ~10 years. I never tried to OG 2015, but I can tell you the 2025 “reblended” version released last July were very mid - at best. I had two of the originals, and was quite disappointed that these actually came from Aganorsa. It seems crazy to me that a once-every-10-years release wouldn’t just be spectacular on the day it was released.

Link pls

AMP AGO 21

Glad you got the good one here!

https://tenor.com/view/tommy-boy-chris-farley-burning-burn-fire-gif-19946871

I agreed to the video and I'm sure I signed a release. The "surprise" I was referring to was just that I am listed first after Kirby, so under the heading "Our Cigar Masters" you just see Eddie Sahakian, Kirby and myself, and have to scroll for others. At a casual glance it seems like I'm one of the main guys. My understanding is that they have two types of videos - the formal course which is lectures on specific subjects, and then "interludes" which is more casual interviews and entertainment type things. They asked me to do a course, but as you may be aware if you've seen anything I've ever done, I am a bit of an obsessive, so if I was going to do something like that I would want to do it properly and would do research and slides and retake it until I got it right etc etc. As they weren't offering to pay for it, it didn't seem like a good investment of 100 hours, so I did the interlude instead. There were others who shot multiple courses and contributed a lot more than I did. Would have thought one of those would be at the top of the marquee. Anyway, knowing how these things work, I'm sure it's more a random accident from their web designer than a Machiavellian attempt to exploit the Groom name. Everyone involved is a friend, and I wish them well.

As always, questions like this result in the full gamut of options as responses 😀

Wow. I need better friends.

1 Seahawks 2 14-20 3 under 4 4 5 Hawks 24 Pats 10 6 4

It's definitely a con.

Nice-looking little Robusto, with a very amber-colored celo. Not sure how old, though I think @Çnote told me somewhere. Cold draw has hay, coffee, sweet tobacco notes, while the light-up is basically that with some pepper spice added. Going on, great notes of old tobacco. Still a lot of intensity left in this. There’s some heat in the finish, but not actually a lot in the retro. Baked bread, blueberry coulis, some figgy funk, and cream. Great first half! Second half starts with some tellicherry pepper, not overly hot but good earthiness. Some dried fruits, not sure what. Actually some wine notes, too, something red. “Champagne?” “We’re in the middle of a chase, Porthos!” “You’re right… something red.” Transitions to baclava with spicy honey. Black walnut, with a little shell. Creamy cocoa tart. This is turning out to be a lot sweeter than I expected. No salt or pork fat, which the name gave me to expect. It finished with some added soft leather and damp earth, syrupy molasses and more bakery spice. Cocoa and coffee. Very good stuff throughout this stick, a highly enjoyable smoke on a beautiful day. 90-92 from me.