Your top cigar experiences for MAY 2020?

[El Presidente]

While it is fresh in your mind, let us know your best cigar experiences for MAY 2020 

My Top 5 are below. 

 

 

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Top 5

 

Supply out of Havana has been at a trickle given there have been no passenger aircraft flying in.  That should commence to open up throughout June but supply amy not get back to normal until August September.  

Of what we have seen, 2019 stock continues to cement itself as one of the best years in the last 20.  

Here is my top 5 for the last month. 

 

 

1. Cohiba Siglo IV  LME DIC 19

       I haven’t seen or smoked better Siglo IV

 

2. Por Larranaga Petit Corona  LGR OCT 19

      Rosado wrappers abound currently.

 

3. Bolivar Belicoso Finos  MSU DIC 19

      Some of the best sheen that I have seen on Colorado/Colorado maduro wrappers that I have          seen in a long time.

 

4. Cohiba Talisman  Edicion Limitada 2017   ATE SEP 19 

      I don't agree with the re-release but has anyone else found that the 2019 version smokes far          better than the 2017? Check out the   video review

 

5. Vegas Robaina Famosos  RAG Sep 19

     The Famosos are on a roll right now. Deep rich Christmas cake flavours and exceptional quality  

[JohnS]

My top 5 cigar experiences for May 2020 (in no particular order):

• BSM Nov 2019 Trinidad Media Luna
• GEM Nov 2019 Trinidad Esmeralda
• LMB Feb 2019 Bolivar Belicosos Finos
• ABO Mar 2019 Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo de Rio Seco
• REG Nov 2018 Montecristo Especiales No.2

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, JohnS said:

My top 5 cigar experiences for May 2020 (in no particular order):

• BSM Nov 2019 Trinidad Media Luna
• GEM Nov 2019 Trinidad Esmeralda
• LMB Feb 2019 Bolivar Belicosos Finos
• ABO Mar 2019 Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo de Rio Seco
• REG Nov 2018 Montecristo Especiales No.2

Whaaat?!?!

Ok, no more '03 Des Dieux for you!!

[TBird55]

#1   Punch DC from 13 - stunning

#2   CoRo from 15 - really starting to shine

#3   Don Alejandro 16 - I'll miss them when       they are gone.

4#   Sir Winston  17 - getting better and.            better 

5#   PLPC  16 - carmel sweetness, worth the    wait.

[JohnS]

4 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Whaaat?!?!

Ok, no more '03 Des Dieux for you!!

Ok, that was the best, alongside an '06 Cohiba Esplendidos, but I kept my response/s to recent production. ?

[Meklown]

A well-rested Punch 48 that I got around 1 year ago. Really love that one.

Also a Monte 2 ROTT. I somehow find that cigars do fine ROTT, but then go to sleep for around a month + before waking up again. 

Just last night, squeezing in in time for May, was a Nudie Lancero - is it the N1 or N3? I can never remember the numbers. Wanted to do it for the FFF review comp but I got lazy, so I just succumbed to enjoyment

[joeypots]

It was a Monte Cristo #1, BUM ABR 15. I don't hate any vitolas, even the very thick ones though I wonder why people don't like the old standards like they used to. This  Lonsdale is nothing fancy but with a little time and good storage and it was a great smoke. I've spent a lot more for cigars I don't care for.

[Silverstix]

NOV 17 Cohiba Esplendidos......it was 2-1/2 hours of greatness

[Chibearsv]

I don't have all the box codes but:

1. Cohiba Esplendidos UAO Jul 19 - Perfection

2. Lusitania 2019 - Near Perfection

3. Bolivar Liberatador - I think MSU Mar 2019.  PSP box - Juicy

4. Romeo y Julieta Churchill 2019 - Smooth and tasty

5. Trinidad Fundadores 2019 - Delicious

[Pigpen]

Picked up some RYJ Short Churchill’s 2013 from a member of another forum who was selling is collection as he had given up smoking. Had tried them a few times before but the taste with 7 years of age on them was sublime. Only 14 of them left and have to fight the urge to have another each time I go to the humidor.


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[Shatner's Bassoon]

2 hours ago, joeypots said:

It was a Monte Cristo #1, BUM ABR 15. I don't hate any vitolas, even the very thick ones though I wonder why people don't like the old standards like they used to. This  Lonsdale is nothing fancy but with a little time and good storage and it was a great smoke. I've spent a lot more for cigars I don't care for.

Funnily enough I was going to mention a Monte #1 of precisely that box code which I smoked last week. Excellent cigar!

Also have to mention a Bolivar Royal Corona MSU ABR 19 which was fantastic. I’d be surprised if that box lasts long!

[dshot]

1.Cohiba Coronas Especiales DEC '19

2.HU Sir Winston '19

3.Diplomaticos N. 2 '19

4.Sancho Panza Non-plus '18

5.HdM Petite Robusto '18

[Habana Mike]

Trinidad Robusto T 2009

Qd'O Gran Corona POS 03

Vegas Robaina Maestros RE Espana EMA NOV07

RG Slenderella '80s

Cohiba Piramides from the Selección Pirámide case. 2005

 

[TTP21]

Partagas D4 BOP - AGO 19

Hoyo Du Depute - TOU JUL 17

PLMC - LGR AGO 18

 

[BeerPimp]

• Monte #2 UTL AGO 18
• Bolivar Royal Coronas 18
• Hoyo de Monterrey De Rio Seco LGR SEP 18

I will say that my 2017 PLPC have disappointed me the last couple sticks I have had this month.  I want the burnt sugar sticks I had at the end of last year and earlier this year.   Also I keep eying the Talisman but they are above my pay grade.

[Matt Day]

H upmann majestics cream vanilla milk coffee everything an upmann should be and a corona to boot so a nice size rsther than a baseball bat what's not to love. 

[Cigar Salute]

MUP May 19 Cohiba Siglo IV

EPM Nov 18 Cohiba Medio Siglo

MSU Nov 18 QDO 50

REG April 19 Monte Especiale no 2

BUP July 18 Saint Luis Rey Regio

[NW_Oregon]

ABR 19 PLMC's are smoking fantastic

AUG 17 Party Aristocrats & NOV 16 MFs are smoking damn good

The real shocker was the OCT 16  Veugeros Mananitas are MONEY, such a powerful little stick that's really found it's legs with this much age on them.