JohnS Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I've been thinking about starting this topic for awhile, yet was a little hesitant to list my stock count as it may be perceived as vainglorious and boastful, when in actuality I am trying to future-proof my cigar hobby as best I can against legislative changes and tax increases. After discussing with planetary how to go about getting collective data via pm, I relented and thought I would so in the best interests of our FoH cigar community. My marca breakdown is below... Cohiba - 210 or 21.3% H.Upmann - 123 or 12.4% Partagas - 115 or 11.6% Montecristo - 88 or 9% Por Larranaga - 75 or 7.6% Ramon Allones - 70 or 7.1% Trinidad - 68 or 6.9% Hoyo de Monterrey - 55 or 5.6% San Cristobal - 34 or 3.5% Diplomaticos - 29 or 2.9% La Gloria Cubana - 29 or 2.9% El Rey del Mundo - 25 or 2.5% Vegas Robaina - 25 or 2.5% Bolivar - 13 or 1.3% Cuaba - 7 or 0.7% Punch - 6 or 0.6% Romeo y Julieta - 5 or 0.5% Saint Luis Rey - 5 or 0.5% Sancho Panza - 4 or 0.4% La Flor de Cano - 2 or 0.2% I am expecting H.Upmann to be the most represented marca in your humidors, but we shall see. Certainly, I think H.Upmann, Cohiba, Partagas and Montecristo will have the highest representations. Although Habanos S.A does not publish sales figures annually, we have had some data in the past. The seven global brands, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, Jose L.Piedra, Cohiba, Partagas, H.Upmann and Hoyo de Monterrey account for over 80% of sales (In fact, one could probably estimate that Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta and Jose L.Piedra alone account for 50%!). I believe it is pertinent to mention that although Multi-Local brands such as Bolivar and Local brands such as Ramon Allones generate probably 1 to 2% of annual sales for Habanos S.A, they would be more proportionate among cigar enthusiasts such as ourselves. The information gathered here, I think, would be interesting data for our generous host Rob (El Presidente) and Alex Groom at Cuban Cigar Website. Below are some other related topics similar to this one... Which cigars are you deepest on? Going Deep...What and Why? Best Represented Marca in Your Humi... Year to date movement by volume (2015) Finally, I'd like to thank planetary, who has graciously agreed to do an overall tally with weighted and simple averages of cigar counts and percentages. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverdst Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Last time I did something like that Montecristo was the brand that I had more BOXES. I will update the info this weekend but not sure if I will do it about the number of sticks. Good thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napa_Smokes Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Are these number of individual cigars or box count? And if boxes are we counting 25 count boxes or 20's and 10's as full boxes? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HavanaSunday Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Great thread. Will evaluate and post soon. Can't wait to see the results. Well done. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share Posted May 7, 2016 Are these number of individual cigars or box count? And if boxes are we counting 25 count boxes or 20's and 10's as full boxes? Individual cigars, but if you can do boxes with numbers in parenthesis (e.g. Montecristo No.2 (25), Montecristo No.2 (10) etc.), I'm sure we can work it out, I know planetary will do his 'magic' on the overall numbers. Interestingly, it's not a bad thing to go over what stick count you have every now and to see what specific cigar you favour in comparison to another. I was surprised to see the following in regards to my individual cigars with a stock count over 30... Partagas Shorts - 50 Por Larranaga - 50 Cohiba Siglo VI - 42 H.Upmann Petit Corona - 35 Cohiba Siglo I - 32 San Cristobal de La Habana El Principe - 32 Trinidad Reyes -32 H.Upmann No.2 - 31 Montecristo No. 5 - 31 I have only two brands of cigar over a count of 30 in my humidors that is larger than 42 ring gauge (Cohiba Siglo VI and H.Upmann No.2). I thought it would be more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagermeister Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 This is one of the reasons I keep my inventory on an Excel sheet rather than one of the many web options. Love having this info at my fingertips. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetary Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 As John said, I'm grabbing the reported values in a sheet: The FOH Humidor Census! Here's the state of my humidor, plus or minus a bit: I find some of these results surprising, now that I see the numbers. As I continue to develop preferences, I'm surprised I've gotten so many Bolivar, and so few Ramon Allones, to take two obvious examples. Interesting! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stogieluver Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 191 14.4% H Upmann 186 14.1% Por Larranaga 151 11.4% Montecristo 136 10.3% Hoyo de Monterrey 113 8.5% Ramon Allones 113 8.5% Cohiba 94 7.1% Partagas 75 5.7% Romeo y Julieta 69 5.0% Bolivar 35 2.7% Quai d'Orsay 35 2.7% Vegas Robaina 32 2.4% La Gloria Cubana 29 2.2% Punch 18 1.4% Jose Piedra 14 1.0% El Rey del Mundo 11 0.8% Saint Luis Rey 9 0.7% Trinidad 5 0.3% La Flor de Cano 4 0.3% Juan Lopez 1320 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONSVO Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I'm terrified to do it, but I'm going to use that Google doc and add them up when I get home to my laptop. Thank you to FOH!... not only for welcoming me to Cigar Budget Hell but providing a tool to track my downward spiral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HavanaSunday Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 This may throw a monkey wrench into things, but I broke it down best I could..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper669 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Qty/ % 174/ 13.3% La Gloria Cubana 170/ 13.0% Por Larranaga 113/ 8.60% Customs 96/ 7.30% Ramon Allones 94/ 7.10% H. Upmann 93/ 7.10% Bolivar 90/ 6.80% Partagas 59/ 4.50% Trinidad 54/ 4.10% Montecristo 53/ 4.00% La Escepcion 50/ 3.80% Cohiba 50/ 3.80% El Rey del Mundo 37/ 2.80% Punch 38/ 2.80% Saint Luis Rey 35/ 2.70% San Cristobal de La Habana 35/ 2.70% Romeo y Julieta 15/ 1.20% Hoyo de Monterrey 15/ 1.20% Diplomaticos 15/ 1.10% Quai d Orsay 11/ 0.80% Juan Lopez 5/ 0.40% Sancho Panza 5/ 0.40% Vegas Robaina edited to add cigar totals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetary Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Your data is rolling into the sheet. Quick note: I've made adjustments to accommodate those who wish to only provide percentages, and not absolute values -- something John and I discussed earlier. As a result, the summary data is now split into two parts: (1) totals and weighted averages, where we have stick quantities (2) simple average across all members, regardless of humidor size I also added a "rank" for each of the above, to make marca position clearer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypots Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 This is an interesting exercise. I now notice that I have, as planned, sold of some boxes to fund a Cohiba obsession. It has left me short of some things I'd like to replenish. Oh well, you can't kiss all the girls.....I'm down to 10 marcas, I think I could live with 5 or 6. Cohiba - 211 or 25% H.Upmann - 45 or 5.4% Partagas - 121 or 14.4% Montecristo - 104 or 12.3% Por Larranaga - 102 or 12.1% Ramon Allones 102 or 12.1% Bolivar - 20 or 2.3% Cuaba - 10 or 1.2% Punch- 97 or 11.1% Quai d'Orsay - 25 or 3% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schubb Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Interesting to see the breakdown. Didn't realize I was so Upmann-heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepp Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Bolivar 5.2% Cohíba 3.7% Customs 5.5% El Rey del Mundo 9.8% H Upmann 6.4% Hoyo de Monterrey 1.0% José L. Piedra 0.9% Juan López 1.2% La Gloria Cubana 7.8% Montecristo 18.0% Partagás 6.4% Por Larrañaga 12.2% Punch 5.9% Quintero 1.7% Rafael González 0.8% Ramón Allones 7.2% Saint Luis Rey 0.1% San Cristóbal de la Habana 1.9% Vegas Robaina 4.3% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archosaur Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Very cool! I'll play, now that I am more actively managing my inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypots Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 As I look at my inventory for this thread, I'm surprised that Bolivar is so under represented in my humidor and it got me thinking. I used to have loads of Bolivar. MRN said one could develop a first rate cigar cellar in 5 years with just Bolivar cigars and that if he had to choose one marca it would be Bolivar. I use to agree but all the cigars I love, the Gigantes, Petit Corona, and the Corona Extra are no longer available in 50 Cabs or are,like the CE, gone forever. God, I'd take out a loan if I could get 5 good recent production Cabs of each. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoker Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Nice thread! I love poking my nose into other people's humidors lol. Plus it's fun to see that other people are even more analytical with their collections than I am. My sheet definitely needs some more work! I haven't made graphs or anything fancy, but then I am quite new to collecting, and I've only bought 12 boxes so far: Bolivar - 131 (53.91%) Cohiba - 80 (32.92%) Diplomaticos - 25 (10.29%) Montecristo - 7 (2.88%) You can blame Rob for the lack of Partagas - he owes me 50 shorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoker Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Some factors I thought about for this project: Some brands are not as readily available as others - case in point is Cohiba! Perhaps if these were as easily available as Upmanns, then the results might be different. Because this survey is taking place on the FoH forum, the results will be skewed towards what is offered/purchased through 24:24. Never see Vegueros there for example. Actually, there is no Vegueros listed at *****INT either....any reason behind this? Also, I tend to smoke the cigars I like, and leave the others in the humidor for much longer. An example is that I bought a 10 box of Monte 2s and was quite underwhelmed by them (still haven't found a Monte that I like). In the same time that I have suffered through 3 of those, I have smoked more than 25 Bolivars . So, the contents of a humidor might not accurately represent what the owner is actually buying and smoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puro Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Interesting post johnyou fellas have some great inventory ! Montecristo 25 Drew estate 20 Af-Opus X 15 Hdm 15 Ryj 14 Padron 14 Davidoff 14 Bolivar 13 Cohiba 13 Rass 12 Tatuaje 12 My father 11 Avo 8 Viaje 6 Caldwell 4 Cheers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalfan85 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Well you made me curious so I decided to count them all up! I have 292 Cuban cigars in total and the first Cuban cigar I had was a mere year ago (Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure no. 2). Here's the breakdown: H. Upmann 60 Ramon Allones 56 Partagas 43 Montecristo 31 Bolivar 26 Romeo y Julieta 23 Hoyo de Monterrey 21 Juan Lopez 7 La Gloria Cubana 6 Por Larranaga 5 Sancho Panza 4 Cohiba 4 Saint Luis Rey 3 Diplomaticos 1 San Cristobal 1 Vegas Robaina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper669 Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 planetary, I updated my post to include cigar totals. Sorry, I should have included them to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetary Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 planetary, I updated my post to include cigar totals. Sorry, I should have included them to begin with. No worries at all -- added into the sheet, which should now be current as of this point in the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habana Mike Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Here's mine Courtesy of ThoughtSpot analysis.... Data table: Brand Total Amount PercentageLa Flor De Cano 91 1%Customs 96 1%San Cristobal De La Habana 103 1%Juan Lopez 123 1%Sancho Panza 135 1%Mixed Singles 149 2%El Rey Del Mundo 189 2%Diplomaticos 210 2%La Gloria Cubana 215 2%La Escepcion 230 3%Punch 230 3%Quai D'orsay 282 3%Trinidad 287 3%Various 348 4%Romeo Y Julieta 371 4%Hoyo De Monterrey 376 4%Cohiba 377 4%Por Larranaga 390 4%Montecristo 830 9%Bolivar 859 9%H Upmann 931 10%Partagas 1,155 13%Ramon Allones 1,196 13% 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattygukas Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Here's mine Courtesy of ThoughtSpot analysis.... Data table: Brand Total Amount Percentage La Flor De Cano 91 1% Customs 96 1% San Cristobal De La Habana 103 1% Juan Lopez 123 1% Sancho Panza 135 1% Mixed Singles 149 2% El Rey Del Mundo 189 2% Diplomaticos 210 2% La Gloria Cubana 215 2% La Escepcion 230 3% Punch 230 3% Quai D'orsay 282 3% Trinidad 287 3% Various 348 4% Romeo Y Julieta 371 4% Hoyo De Monterrey 376 4% Cohiba 377 4% Por Larranaga 390 4% Montecristo 830 9% Bolivar 859 9% H Upmann 931 10% Partagas 1,155 13% Ramon Allones 1,196 13% I'm most amazed at the amount of browser tabs open 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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