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[Duxnutz]

Hitting those old smokes! Serviceable drop from Costco also. 

[Raskol]

C&C Time. ERDM Choix Supreme (2016) - 24:24

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[Kongelunden]

Back to a bit of spring sun, and back to a marvelous one-year old Monte #1 ? Enjoyed it with a nice cup of coffee, of course served in a contrast coffee mug from 'Royal Copenhagen' ?

[Jbhunter223]

From last night.  Darkest one on the top row, ‘15.  Everything I hoped it would be, fantastic stick.  This box won’t last long!

[StogieSteve23]

5 minutes ago, Jbhunter223 said:

From last night.  Darkest one on the top row, ‘15.  Everything I hoped it would be, fantastic stick.  This box won’t last long!

Nice! I have a handful of '14s that are smoking very well right now also. Great flavors, nice mild+ - medium bodied smoke for me. 

[CampDelta369]

Perlas Time. 

[planetary]

A few recents!

[BlueRidgeFly]

Monte 1, BOE DIC 18... just a little repair job required

Liga Privada Dirty Rat, a year in the humidor and it was excellent ?

[inter4alia]

SUM Sep 15. I'm not a big RyJ guy, but this box has been excellent. I get a ton of the reported classic RyJ flavors out of these. 

[HDGSN]

H. Upmann Royal Robusto BRE MAR 18

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Ramon Allones Gigantes ABO ABR 19

 

[SmokeyGigi]

[StogieSteve23]

Breakfast: TOS MAY-17

Love these little guys.  Haven't smoked one in a while. Great flavors but the burn was kind of wonky.  It's more humid than a witches you know where, down here in south Florida right now and I think that played a big factor.  About 10 minutes after lighting up it became spongey and extremely soft to the touch. Despite the numerous touch-up's it was very enjoyable with my morning coffee.  

UEB AGO-17 Lusi for Lunch

 

[Pigpen]

A 2016 Upman Connie 1




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[JohnS]

Cohiba Double Coronas 2003 - Edición Limitada 2003

The Cohiba Double Coronas was the second Limited Edition cigar to be released in the Cohiba marca after the 2001 Cohiba Piramides. At the time it was released limited edition cigars were not yet priced at a premium price-point as they are now. Additionally, they used to be available for longer than their annual production run. As of 2020, this remains the third and last Double Corona to be released as a Limited Edition cigar, the first two being the Romeo y Julieta Exhibicion No.2 in 2000 and the Montecristo Double Corona in 2001 (of course the Monte DC didn't actually come out until a year later in 2002).

Similarly for Regional Editions, excepting the special release Punch Sir David Paco (49 ring gauge x 180 mm or 7⅛ inches in length) in 2018, we've only had 5 such releases in Prominentes (or Double Coronas) and Pacos size and the last of these, prior to the Punch Sir David, was in 2010. You'd have to agree, five Regional Edition releases in this size out of 212 in total (at the time of writing) is not much.

It wasn't that long ago that we had a few options in the Double Coronas and Pacos varieties in Habanos regular production but sadly the San Cristobal de la Habana El Morro was discontinued in 2013, the Saint Luis Rey Double Corona exited in 2013/14 and the Vegas Robaina Don Alejandro left us in 2017. The remaining four, the Partagas Lusitanias, Ramon Allones Gigantes, Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona and Punch Double Corona are thankfully still with us, however; I would argue that this Cohiba Double Coronas from 2003 smokes vastly different to those four double coronas.

The cold draw hinted to this possibly of difference when I picked up notes of cocoa, cedar and baking spice. The first third had incredible notes of baking spice, so much so in fact that I considered this cigar amongst the very best Cohibas I've had in the first few puffs, albeit on the condition that this flavour dominated and continued. As I continued to smoke into the first third, I got notes of cocoa and leather in addition to the baking spice. I considered these flavours as I smoked and thought how they weren't flavours necessarily synonymous with Cohiba.

In the middle third the cigar developed and changed. The baking spice wasn't as prominent and at this point I picked up some notes of 'Earthiness'. Again, 'Earthy' flavours aren't something I equate with Cohiba. The cigar was mild to mild-medium and in terms of flavours, it still had a refined quality to it. The cedar notes certainly attested to this fact.

The final third was sufficiently mild to allow me to comfortably retrohale the cigar, it was still refined through the nose and not overwhelmingly spicy.

In summary, this 2003 Cohiba Double Coronas was not as rich and spicy as the Cohiba 1966 and Cohiba Robustos Supremos Limited Editions I've smoked recently. If I were to try to paint a picture of what this smoke liked, perhaps the best way to imagine it is to cross a Cohiba Maduro 5 cigar (due to the maduro-shade wrapper) and an aged Cohiba Esplendidos. Finally, I'd like to thank @Trevor2118 for gifting me this cigar to review and share.

[TNT009]

[MigsG]

Thanks @slowsmoke for this Short Churchill!  Last of what we traded a year ago now. I enjoyed every one of them.  Now it’s time to get a box of my own.

 

[Rhinoww]

Yesterday I started out at 11:45 before gardening with a BBF w a buddy. Such a great smoke. 
 

After dinner revisited a sixer of Monte 3. No photo. Largely unremarkable except the last inch. A lotta work for meh. 
 

planted 20 odd tomato plants today, some green peppers and some cucumbers. The eggplants it seems will be in 5 gallon pots this year. Dirty hands and all grabbed a JL1. I just seem to grab them when I can. Dry boxed this for a few days and the 55rh really opened it up. 

[Wookie]

2015 Esplendido....this box has been excellent. Nice balance of vanilla/honey and savory. 

2016 RAG

[torsion]

18 hours ago, ElJavi76 said:

Last two days... Trini has slowly made its way into my top 3 marcas. Esmeralda and Fundadores.

Classy marca bro, hope you and your family are well.I miss the US and our herfs

On 5/24/2020 at 1:40 PM, Habana Mike said:

Miss you Don. Hope all's well across the pond!

The feeling is always mutual Mike-take care and hope to see you again some day

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[Toasty]

Last of my qtr box of Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure Especial bought on 24:24. Definitely need to buy a couple of boxes of 25 or even better a couple of cabs of 50. ?

[ElJavi76]

1 hour ago, torsion said:

Classy marca bro, hope you and your family are well.I miss the US and our herfs

I agree Don. Miss you back here in the states. Let me know if you're ever back here... You know we'll smoke something classy bro.

[saintsmokealot]

[Smalls]

2013 PSP Monte 2

[Puro_Lover83]

Oct 17 Siglo IV and May 19 Monte 2. Should have dry boxed the Monte a couple more days...