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Partagás Serie D No.3 - Circa 2001...

Juan López Finos Edición Regional Países Bajos 2023.

Esmeralda

Cohiba Coronas Especiales 2003 - Reserva Selección - Circa 2003...

Had my first Vegas Robaina. Lovely mild, but flavorful smoke. Honey, cream, cocoa with a nice spice in the first 10 puffs. Like a Monte 4 but more delicate. What a perfect coffee cigar! Construction was among the best of any Cuban I’ve smoked.

Double Coronas...vintage VR are always impressive.

'20 Lusi. Love the long format smokes.

Wow....I haven't been stunned in a while...! This is incredible, Rob, thank you! *lights an impossibly tight Cohiba Lancero and clears throat* This really is a special place. I stumbled in here years ago looking for humidification guidance (shoutout @PigFish), and since then I’ve been an absolute sponge for the depth of knowledge this community offers. Before FOH, I didn’t really have an online ‘home’ - and not just for cigars. Obviously that changed very quickly… Every time I log on, it feels like I’m walking into our 24/7 member lounge - where the technical, the historical, the experiential, the business-savvy, and the humor all coexist (and let’s not forget the cigars). This combination is impossibly rare and it’s what keeps the bar here set so high. FOH has also been instrumental in the success for the podcast - and certainly a great deal of fuel each week, also. Without Rob’s and the forum’s early support of it in its infancy, I’m not sure if we’d be even close to where we are today. Every single time I receive feedback or recommendations from a fellow member, it’s helpful, constructive and often hilarious. I can’t thank you all enough for this. I also want to sincerely thank the entire admin and moderator team as well. Keeping a place like this honest, thoughtful, and welcoming isn’t easy, and it doesn’t go unnoticed - especially when we’re all teeing off about arrests, nations collapsing and NFL lunacy. The fellow FOH Men of the Year are titans and I am truly honored. I feel like Wayne and Garth today: “NOT WORTHY! NOT WORTHY!” I proudly wear my 2024 BigGuns FOH MOTY t-shirt often. Having this brilliantly modified FOHLizard shirt to wear into every podcast recording and on FOH Discord is both hilarious and a complete honor. I’ve been fortunate in the past to receive recognition in other parts of my life, but this one hits differently. To be recognized by Rob and FOH - a class act of a community I genuinely admire and learn from means more to me than I can easily put into words. Thank you all for contributing so positively to my cigar (and life) experience. I’m eternally grateful!!

Beautiful Cigar. Thanks @Gemini_Man

HC BRM ENE 24

Punch Short de Punch TRU OCT 19

MTS NOV 21 BSM MAY 21

That trusted Partagas flavor...

I am very proud to announce "LizardGizmo" George as our FOH Man of the Year Gizmo is a FOH stalwart who lends a hand to all, whose interaction with FOH members sets the standard of how discourse should be in the modern world. Great bloke online and in person. Keeper of the Box Code list, Head of the much loved Lounge Lizard Podcast, lover of the leaf. George/Gizmo follows on from Mike (BigGuns), Charles (Chas.Alpha), John S, Fuzz. Congrats Mate!!! Steve will touch base to arrange your Tshirt.

Here you go! Cheers!

'20 Hoyo Epicure #2.

RG and Select Spritz.

Por Larrañaga Petit Corona (RAT ENE21).

Sunday night cigars 21' Cohiba Siglo VI Vanilla, Citrus, Custard Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Siglo VI - GOA SEP 15

Monte 4 perfection. Cocoa powder and cream...watching my Bears get creamed.

M4

NC

Montecristo C - Circa 2003...

Aladino Cameroon RGPE RASS

Last night I enjoyed my first cigar(s) of 2026. (I’d intended on just one ) Up to now, I’ve bought into -- and enjoyed -- starting and ending each year with one of the latest “year of” releases from Davidoff. For 2026, that’s the “Year of the Horse” (of course, of course ) This Davidoff is big to me (55 RG) — same goes for its oversized pricing. I will say, the Year of the Horse had just an incredibly good start. Especially for such a new cigar, the opening was really something — complex and enjoyable, cocoa nibs, cedar and spices. But, after a while, it got kinda “samey” and boring. So much so, I was compelled to add another set of flavors: a little JL petite corona (MPE Abr 2010). Enjoying the two together brought the much-missing twang and I still occasionally turned back to the Davidoff’s singular complexity. They went well together! But I think I’m done chasing Davidoff’s new “Year of” cigars…as they keep getting bigger in size and price. Last night’s experience highlighted the wonders of a“little old” over a “lotta” new. A horse is a horse. Thank goodness for little old CCs.

Well developed.

Fuente Anejo Shark. Dark, sweet, and fulfilling.

Partagas Lonsdale from a cab. CUESEP03

Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2 (TRU NOV17).

Boli CG, FPG ESU (June, '98). Regal smoke. Last couple inches got a tad bitter, a few quick purges and it was back on line. Heavy on the palate eight hours later, still plenty of life!

This cigar made me grow a second pelt of chest hair! Mode 5.

Hoyo Epicure 2 while hitting range balls. Construction was tighter than my preference but coffee with cream came through with light toffee sweetness.

'24 Hoyo Elegantes.

MOFOH Trinity Robusto. I have a few that I think are from different batches. Some lean sweet (almost too sweet for me) and some lean less sweet and are a ringer to an H Upmann Connossieur A. This one is truly spectacular.

Partagás Short (ASR NOV18).

Punch Short de Punch from 2019. Best cigar from the box, so far.

I’m still trying to find my footing with Cuban marcas as I’m still new to CC. But Bolivar just shot up to the top. Sourdough bready from start to finish with a little nuttiness and caramel sweetness. Incredible.

Meanwhile....back at Havana Headquarters.

Short Churchill RLO JUN23 Good not great. I’ve always gravitated towards the Petit Churchill more anyways, feel there’s a lot more cherry flavor in those.

Intemperance EC XVIII A.W.S. IV

Some recents… Padrón 3000 Maduro. Speaks for itself… Toscano Master Aged Series 5. Wonderful. Smokey, peaty, woodsy, and strong. Don’t smoke if you’re looking for lollipops. Tatuaje Fausto FT153. Really good strong smoke. Supposedly, the strongest Tatuaje, but a solid medium strength coat for my palate. Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Et Tu Brute? This is just a well balanced smoke, but too much money IMO (~$28) because Fuente rolls it. Viaje Circa 25 No. 2. Yet another Aganorsa winner. Casa 1910 MexiGars HBA (corny name, yeah, but the Mexican tobacco it contains is really good). I have more Mexican cigars on the way, so I’m excited about that. 🙂

Last night's cigars Ramon Allones Absolutos Edicion Limitada Cocoa, Coffee, Berry 1/2 01' Saint Luis Rey Regios (50 Cab) Buttered Steak, Molasses, Baked Bread Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly