zeedubbya Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I would like to share a recent story. There's some great friends of my sister who are very well off. She was at their house for a Holiday party and told me she was smoking a Cohiba after dinner with them. Tells me how they brought them back from their last trip hidden in their luggage and such, and how they are big time cigar connoisseurs. I ask her to send me a picture. She sends me a picture of a Cohiba Black Dot Tubo....I simply said that's nice--not wanting to be that guy. Later in the week she is over at my house and asks me to give her some eduction on cigars so I do. She realizes soon enough that she was smoking a NC. She asks me what the difference is. And I explain it to her. The next day she calls me all excited telling me her friend wants me to come over and talk to them about cigars. So I do. I take a couple COROS along with me and give them an explanation. We then light up. After the first 10 puffs they say, "This is very strong, I don't think I can keep smoking this--it's way too strong for me." I can clearly see they are smoking them way way too fast. I suggest they slow slow down. I show them how to smoke a cigar the proper way and all that. I try to do this as gently as possible. After doing this they got a ton of enjoyment out of the cigars and were extremely Wowed by how many flavors they were tasting in the CORO. This story is hopefully for your benefit @SaintMickey®. Make sure you are gentle with how you go about it, but even if you have people who are very experienced cigar smokers you may have to give a little eduction first. Let them know it's for everyone's benefit. I find in most situations I've been in like this people who are even very experienced smoke way way too fast. If you're taking BRCs which have been stored at a low humidity you're going to have to make sure they smoke them very slow. Just my recommendation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintMickey® Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Update... Box of Bolivar Royal Coronas were very well received although I was very sad to see them go. I am happy to say that everyone stayed together in a side "room" at Eye Candy (Mandalay Bay Hotel) and smoked together I literally saw all cigars smoked down properly and some to a nub, no abandoned/wasted cigars. Even after giving a couple away "for later" to some I ended up with 6 left over so I'll consider that my transportation fee when I submit the expense report! Glad I did this...it really got the group together and talking...not just drinking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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