El Presidente Posted October 12, 2010 Posted October 12, 2010 For our Brisbane members keep the afternoon/evening of Tuesday the 23rd of November aside as we are planning an event featuring cigar roller Ramses Pantoya Herrera Ramses has been here before and is an excellent roller who works in the Partagas factory supervising master rollers rolling figurados and specialty items. We will be shooting a video with Ramses discussing his life as a cigar roller and the ins and outs of life in the Partagas factory and industry in general. We will also be doing a series of interesting cigar experiments utilizing his skills. If there are any questions you would like us to pose, any experiments you would like to see, just put the the request on this thread and we will do our utmost to accommodate taking into account time restraints and "political" practicalities. Looking forward to it
laficion Posted October 12, 2010 Posted October 12, 2010 That's great Rob, really looking forward to that
jackohalloran Posted October 12, 2010 Posted October 12, 2010 Sounds like a great evening, sucks i cant make it... me being in Ireland and all looking forward to watching it though
mkz Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 Wow! Sounds like its going to be a great evening!
cellinisart Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 what king of experiments will he be doing?
El Presidente Posted October 13, 2010 Author Posted October 13, 2010 what king of experiments will he be doing? Changing wrappers on cigars (general production cigars)....maybe take a Maduro 5 wrapper and place on a Cohiba Robusto and Vice Versa. Take 2 identical blend cigars rolled before us and store one at 70 RH for a week and the other at 60 RH for a week and do a taste comparison. etc etc.
Colt45 Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 If there are any questions you would like us to pose, any experiments you would like to see...... A couple off the top of my head: What's his favorite size to roll overall. If he smokes, what's his favorite size to roll for himself, and how does he like to blend it.
mm12 Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 Changing wrappers on cigars (general production cigars)....maybe take a Maduro 5 wrapper and place on a Cohiba Robusto and Vice Versa. Take 2 identical blend cigars rolled before us and store one at 70 RH for a week and the other at 60 RH for a week and do a taste comparison. etc etc. I'd love to see a wrapper swap of two cigars that are pretty far apart in terms of flavor profile. Maybe an Hoyo Epicure 1 and a Bolivar Corona Extra, or an LGC Medaille d'or no. 2 and a Partagas 898, or a Sancho Panza Non-Plus and a Cohiba Siglo II. Basically just choose two cigars that are as far apart as you can get flavorwise within a particular a size.
Fuzz Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 Changing wrappers on cigars (general production cigars)....maybe take a Maduro 5 wrapper and place on a Cohiba Robusto and Vice Versa. etc etc. Rob, didn't Yasmel do that for you 2 years ago? I'm pretty sure I remember you swapping the wrappers on the Siglo VI / Genios and Robusto / Magicos.
android Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 How about some insight to blend of the new P1 vs. the P2?
Fuzz Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 How about picking your least favourite cigar and replacing the wrapper with your favourite cigar?
maalouly Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 Rob, didn't Yasmel do that for you 2 years ago? I'm pretty sure I remember you swapping the wrappers on the Siglo VI / Genios and Robusto / Magicos. spot on, but still a fun excitement.
El Presidente Posted October 13, 2010 Author Posted October 13, 2010 Rob, didn't Yasmel do that for you 2 years ago? I'm pretty sure I remember you swapping the wrappers on the Siglo VI / Genios and Robusto / Magicos. Can we replicate the results? Can we transfer to concept to others? Can you bloody fly up for the piss up and be part of the filming?
Fuzz Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 Can we replicate the results?Can we transfer to concept to others? Can you bloody fly up for the piss up and be part of the filming? I'd put in a leave form in a heartbeat if my boss didn't tell me on Monday they're planning on flying me out to NZ every freaking Wed in November!! If I can wiggle out of it, I'm on my way!
tdlfoto Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 any chance it can be streamed live? i like to see bloopers in real-time
First Lady Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 Don't be soft Fuzz you can fly to NZ from Brisbane and I will drive you to the airport if you want I would love to have you here
Fuzz Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 Don't be soft Fuzz you can fly to NZ from Brisbane and I will drive you to the airport if you want I would love to have you here Wish I could Lisa. Not only am I flying out on Wed, but that Tue is the last day of my 8 week training course. The gods keep conspiring against me.
CanuckSARTech Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 How about picking your least favourite cigar and replacing the wrapper with your favourite cigar? HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in hell that I would allow the sacrilege of having a beautiful Cohiba Robusto / Trinidad Robustos T wrapper to be placed on the nastiness that is a Guantanamera. Dear gawd - have you gone crazy?!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!??
jsd Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 Can't wait to watch the video and hear about the event. Anxious to see the results of the experiments. Jealous of those who will be in attendance.
michaelhealy Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 Excellent, can't wait! ill drop by and pick you up on the eay in mate...
Dbone Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 This sounds like a great event Rob has arranged. If it was possible for me to attend I sure would. I would be interested to hear Ramses take on how the size of a cigar effects it's flavor. Larger ring cigars have greater filler to wrapper ratio, where smaller ring gauge cigars have greater wrapper to filler ratio. So how do these variances effect flavor? Personally, I tend to favor the smaller ring cigars. I have a difficult time explaining myself on this but I feel there's more flavor. Or more of a particular flavor that I enjoy which may not be found on large ring cigars. Wow, have fun guys!!!
michaelhealy Posted October 15, 2010 Posted October 15, 2010 Going to be a big one by the looks of it - maybe you can leave the car at mine and crash in the spare room. I think the beer & wine will be flowing freely mate! sounds good
Guibou Posted October 15, 2010 Posted October 15, 2010 Ramses has been here before and is an excellent roller who works in the Partagas factory supervising master rollers rolling figurados and specialty items. Ramses is a great guy! I've met him in Beijing several times when he was at Cohiba Atmosphere. And you know what? He will be in Phnom Penh - Cambodia for the Grand Opening of LCDH PP in December !
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