Where is your top end price point for a 96 point + cigar and bottle of wine?

[El Presidente]

This was a Friday deck discussion that proved very interesting. Some rabbit holes were explored 

You are guaranteed a 96 point + experience.....everytime. Yes, the cigar fairy has blessed your cigar purchasing experience. 

Where does your top end price point lay? 

Do the poll 

[chasy]

I’m going to ask my wife this question tonight at dinner, I already know her response. “Who cares. You have too much time on your hands.”

[El Presidente]

11 hours ago, chasy said:

I’m going to ask my wife this question tonight at dinner, I already know her response. “Who cares. You have too much time on your hands.”

My dad (91) asked me what was the average price of cigars that we sell. He spat his $15 dollar glass of Spanish Temperanillo across the room when I told him. 

He has never paid more than $20 for a bottle of wine in his life. Cigar wise, when he indulged, $12. 

[madandana]

12 hours ago, El Presidente said:

This was a Friday deck discussion that proved very interesting. Some rabbit holes were explored 

You are guaranteed a 96 point + experience.....everytime. Yes, the cigar fairy has blessed your cigar purchasing experience. 

Where does your top end price point lay? 

Do the poll 

Easy- I just go with you and let you buy. 😂

[chasy]

11 hours ago, El Presidente said:

My dad (91) asked me what was the average price of cigars that we sell. He spat his $15 dollar glass of  Spanish Temperanillo across the room when I told him 

He has never paid more than $20 for a bottle of wine in his life. Cigar wise, when he induged, $12. 

Well inquiring minds now want to know…What is the average price? (Fully expecting to be told to F off and mind my own business.)

[WarriorPrincess]

10 hours ago, madandana said:

Easy- I just go with you and let you buy 😂

Mike does that mean I can go with Dana handbag shopping to do the same? 

[madandana]

Of course 

[WarriorPrincess]

49 minutes ago, madandana said:

Of course 

yeahhhhhh🥰

[PartagasIV]

Hard to delineate between the 'special occasion' bottles/boxes vs daily drivers...harder still to poll, probably?

Best current value for me is 2018/2019 Chateau Leoville Barton (~$80/bottle at US auction). Insanely high Jancis Robinson score vs price. Possibly going into a maturation period, but like young cigars, young wines I like--stock up on both. Got that mongrel in 'em.

Spent $250+ on both cigars and wine in the past and will do so again. The most unsurprising thing ever is that storage for both matters and not all auction houses, for wine at least, are as wholesome as they appear. Premox Burgs, TCA, bad storage. I try to see the balance in that, net net, the splurge purchases that sing will outweigh the dogs. You get a certain kind of satisfaction buying a low neck fill/seepage bottle in a bigger format, praying it works, and it sings.

Was lucky to find a 97 box of Sir Winston recently that was an 100 pointer. Would probably never buy Davidoff/Dunhill outside of an ex-keeps collection though I cannot fault those that do. Very much depends on one's risk tolerance and education level...but that's part of the fun. Humbling irony is that for a 96+ pointer I'd pay up to $80 and be disappointed sometimes versus the $20 that blows my hair back every time (Boli CJ especially).

Other current 90+ daily drivers these days are Conterno 'il Rosato' rose @~$30, PYCM Bourgogne Au Bout de Monde ~$60 if you can get it, Domaine Chevau Macon-Chaintre ~$20, and le Mesnil BdB champs for ~$40.

[Marco_011t556]

Regular rotation for cigar: $USD20-40 for vanity (show the ring) price, subject to who and where I want/need to show my vanity, LOL!

[Fuzz]

7 hours ago, Marco_011t556 said:

Regular rotation for cigar: $USD20-40 for vanity (show the ring) price, subject to who and where I want/need to show my vanity, LOL!

Please don't go and show your ring....

[dicko]

Honestly? For cigars, given how much we pay in OZ now for years, I would pay whatever it took. Now its not so much a price thing I have just slowed my smoking to adjust for price. I used to smoke 5-10 cigars a week...now, 1 or maybe 2.

Wine is a different story as you can get a world class bottle of wine for $30-60.

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[BrightonCorgi]

Lot of people on here with deep pockets! The percentile paying $75+ on wine is impressive. 

 

[Tunkat92]

I rarely need 96 point cigars or wine, but for the rare occasions that satisfaction is guaranteed on that level, I would not mind paying $75 for a cigar and $100+ for a bottle of wine. But that is very rare, maybe 1-2 times a year, that I really need that.

[Shakey]

For a milestone event I might go for a low three digit cigar and a high three digit bottle, but that would be very rare. For something more than once a year it would be more like $50/$200. 

[Blazer]

The most expensive bottle of wine I've ever bought was $275, the most I've paid for a cigar is $66, but would pay more for one I have lusted after, but never tried.

[Ford2112]

I'm at a 50 dollar limit. Basically double corona prices. I've given up on Cohiba and Trinidad, most regionals and LEs. Any regular production cigar has potential to hit that upper realm.

[NSXCIGAR]

7 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

I'm at a 50 dollar limit. Basically double corona prices. I've given up on Cohiba and Trinidad, most regionals and LEs. Any regular production cigar has potential to hit that upper realm.

Yeah, I would be right at about $50-60 for the absolute maximum for anything produced in the last 10-15 years. Certainly regular production Cohiba and Trini is a hard no at that price. There are so many great cigars under $40 that can absolutely compete with both of them.

And it's not like Cohiba is really riding a wave of greatness lately. The last great Cohiba I had was probably around 2016. 

[Wookie]

I’ve smoke thousands of cigars matched with red wine. But I’m not sure they are the best companions. Smoke seems overbearing to a subtle, high quality wine unless you get into the fortified stuff. If it’s all I have I’ll still pair them. 

[Li Bai]

23 minutes ago, Wookie said:

But I’m not sure they are the best companions

Agreed.

[BrightonCorgi]

The body and a cigar's best companion is water.

[vinnyvega]

I had an opportunity to purchase Soldera at a price I couldn't refuse. That's definitely the most I've spent on wine. As far as cigars go, I think I paid $100 per for some Maravillas.