El Presidente Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Arrived back yesterday evening adter a few days poking around. It is not really a difficult job.....you start at Bolivar and finish at Vegas Robaina Overall this month I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong I selected just short of 10,000 cigars for the PSP/HQ/PE program (July) but it was the toughest month to do so this year. There are still plenty of mediocre cigars being made. My Hot 10 1. PL Encantos (PSP/HQ) 2. LGC inmensos (PSP/HQ) 3. Punch DC Cabs (PSP/HQ) 4. PLPC cabs (PSP) 5. Upmann connie 1's (all high end PE but tasty as hell). 6. Upmann Mag 46 (PSP/HQ) Just brilliant. 7. Partagas Serie D 4 (PE/HQ) in fishing terms..."Their on". 8. SLR Regio (PE/HQ) great to see this quality and flavour. 9. Bolivar Corona Extra 10. Bolivar Royal Corona The crap 1. VR Famosos (disaster) 2. RASS (none....seriously HSA pull your finger out). 3. Partagas 898V (Ugly as sin. Taste is good.....but why scrw up a great cigar with that wrapper?) 4. Monte 5 (is anyone trying?). 5. Trinidad Fundadores (does anyone care?) 6. Sancho Panza (all) (just delete the Marque if you are going to continue to dish out this rubbish) 7. Partagas Salomones. (Should be one of the greats.....instead it is a joke) 8. Cuaba (Not one box met the standards of the program. Enough said) 9. Partagas Presidentes (So green they looked as if they were still on the plant). 10. Trinidad Short Robusto (One of the great HSA marketing blunders of the decade....and that is saying something!). Had a great dinner with Elie, Riad and Rob on Wednesday night. Fantastic food, wines, cigars, company. Thank you gents!
Cohiba Stevie Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Any info on how early 2011 CoRos and siglo iis are lookin like rob? Will be buyin a box of each soon. Thanks for the heads up!
CaptainQuintero Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 How are Monte 3 and R&J Short Churchills doing? Still crap? What exactly is the warehouse by the way lol? Storage just for Czar or like a pick your own stock for pacific B&M?
Vortigan Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Very happy to see The PSD4 in the hot 10! I just ordered a box
j0z3r Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Very happy to see The PSD4 in the hot 10! I just ordered a box A big +1 to that. Now I'm bummed that only ten of the psd4 are mine.:'(
Dbone Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Thank you for the report El Prez, and welcome back. I always look forward to reading them. I'm ready to snag a cracker box of D4's and BRC's
Vortigan Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Thank you for the report El Prez, and welcome back. I always look forward to reading them. I'm ready to snag a cracker box of D4's and BRC's I'm working on a box of BRC from May '10 and they're B E A utiful!! :-)))
mkz Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Thanks for the report Rob! Question: Are there anything from Rafael Gonzales at the warehouse? Havent seen cigars from this marca in quite some time now...
El Presidente Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Thanks for the report Rob!Question: Are there anything from Rafael Gonzales at the warehouse? Havent seen cigars from this marca in quite some time now... some nice RGCE and PC.
El Presidente Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 How are Monte 3 and R&J Short Churchills doing? Still crap? Struggled yet again with the M3. R&J SC 25's are so far away from what they were at their release. Joke currently. Some PE boxes of each but nothing better. Warehouse is where we separate FOH stock and wholesale stock. Do it monthly. We move into a new facility October. Looking forwars to it.
mkz Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 some nice RGCE and PC. Really? I would love a box of PC. Been ages since I enjoyed one!
CaptainQuintero Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Struggled yet again with the M3. R&J SC 25's are so far away from what they were at their release. Joke currently. Some PE boxes of each but nothing better. Warehouse is where we separate FOH stock and wholesale stock. Do it monthly. We move into a new facility October. Looking forwars to it. Ah thanks strange why they would take their feet of the pedal to such an extent with ~3 and the short churchills. Do you find the tubed short churchills to be any different to the dress boxes? So everything at Czar is PE minimum? I wasn't sure if the PE/HQ/PSP program was just for Live from the Humidor or special requests by members etc Apologies for all the questions
riazp Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Ah thanks strange why they would take their feet of the pedal to such an extent with ~3 and the short churchills. Do you find the tubed short churchills to be any different to the dress boxes?So everything at Czar is PE minimum? I wasn't sure if the PE/HQ/PSP program was just for Live from the Humidor or special requests by members etc Apologies for all the questions I'm kind of wondering the same thing, so from how i see it is that you seperate the pe-hq-psp and sell it to us via the forum and the wholesale stock thats for czar?
Rehman Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Argh! The horror of seeing TWO of my staples on the un-Hot list! No VRFs or RASS for a bit? Gadzooks.
tmac77 Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 I'm kind of wondering the same thing, so from how i see it is that you seperate the pe-hq-psp and sell it to us via the forum and the wholesale stock thats for czar? If you ask Ken that question he will tell you that is the stuff that Rob gives to him.
CigarmanTim Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Thanks for the update Rob. Welcome back. I am sorry to hear that about the 898's....they are one of my favorites right now. I have a VR Familiar last month that was stellar. I am looking for a box or two this year.... do you think there is any hope? Also the Lusi's have been good to great since '08... are you seeing a fall off there? Thanks for the feedback.
El Presidente Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Any Mag 46 Cabs of 50 coming over? Still not up to par with the quality of the 46 in 25's of which I selected plenty of PSP and HQ for the month. Shopping for cigars is like shopping for fresh fruit and Veg. Get whats great in season.
Dbone Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 I'm working on a box of BRC from May '10 and they're B E A utiful!! :-))) Sounds great, thanks Mike. I'm in my last few sticks from an 08 box. Shocking how good the current cigars are with a year on them.
CDNeh Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Rob, the interesting thing I note is that the none/any of the Cohiba vitolas seem to fall in the high or low range, is that to say they are falling between or we are just not seeing a lot of product. Regards CDNeh
El Presidente Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Rob, the interesting thing I note is that the none/any of the Cohiba vitolas seem to fall in the high or low range, is that to say they are falling between or we are just not seeing a lot of product.Regards CDNeh We had a great run of Cohiba Robusto last month. This month not quite to the same quality. Still some HQ boxes but no PSP from memory. Same for Siglo VI. Some very good Esplendidos. Siglo II were poor. Some good Siglo 1 and Lancero. There is just too much variance this month to give any one of them a top 10 score. We have great examples of each (bar the II's). Just not many.
Wil Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Any more good Bolivar Gold Medals to be had? My box just arrived and I'm kicking myself for not getting another.
El Presidente Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Any more good Bolivar Gold Medals to be had? My box just arrived and I'm kicking myself for not getting another. Good standard without being exceptional.
ChanceSchmerr Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Is the recent run of Punch RS 12s in Live In the Humidor an anomaly, or are these still very readily available in good quality, Prez? Very sad to see the Sancho Panzas continue to be abysmal
j0z3r Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 7. Partagas Salomones. (Should be one of the greats.....instead it is a joke) I have a question on this point. When was the last time you saw good quality Parti Salamones coming out. More specifically, I have an unopened box from Dec 09...were they up to par then? Thanks Joe
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