FOH'ers Daily Smoke

[FatherOfPugs]

Rain all day here. Finally stopped, wet outside, not in the screened in patio. Cooler out this evening. QdO No.54 MSU DIC 17 and Buffalo Trace in the novelty glass, because why not.

[maverickdrinker]

2012 H Upmann 520 Anniversario robusto tonight...




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[djrey]

Holy Lance tonight 

[Guest Nekhyludov]

ULA JUL 14 QdO Imperiales.

[Habana Mike]

2 hours ago, maverickdrinker said:

2012 H Upmann 520 Anniversario robusto tonight...

Good to see you around again Art.

I've one left of these in the singles drawers. Perhaps time to fire it up!

No time like the present.

Cheers to the dirty ashes!

[Baccy]

My last no. 50

BOP DIC 17

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[JayHabanos]

Punch Punch


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[BoliDan]

M4 laphroaig cask strength

[mtd057]

2018 Monte 4

[THEMISCHMAN]

To all those who didn’t come back. Happy Memorial Day.


MUO MAY 14 CoRo


URG NOV 10 Encantos

[Chucko8]

C&C

[jerrybrowne]

 

 

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[ayepatz]

Esplendidos on a resplendent morning. UME ABR 15
 

[westg]

11 hours ago, maverickdrinker said:

2012 H Upmann 520 Anniversario robusto tonight...




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[StogieSteve23]

2014 Petit Churchill - Enjoyable but nothing to write home about. 

My lady cooked some delicious Cuban Fritas for lunch. Now for a post munch smoke. JAN-17 JJ Salomone.  Big fan of this vitola.  

[Ry27]

HUC1 very good

MMC Very good, ugly albeit tasty. 

RYJ Churchill The best of the bunch. It’s truly impressive how inconsistent this marca is. How can they produce such fantastic cigars and such crap at the same time? It’s infuriating

[Nino]

The local restaurant across the street is open again and I can sit outside and smoke a good cigar - not "back to normal" yet but moving slowly towards it.
Rarely has a humble RASCC tasted so good.

Making good progress.

[99call]

13 minutes ago, nino said:

not "back to normal" yet

I think you are confused.   the red and white hazard tape is not for corona virus..... this is just ******Nino Danger*******!

[SmokeyGigi]

Trinidad Torre iznaga 2006

PLMC

[El Hoze]

Siglo VI: USE JUL 08. The last of the box. Will go down as one of the greats. I still have a bunch of ATs w the same box code. Made it easier to blow out the last one. 

Luckily Presidente inventory is apparently unlimited, I have tested this pretty hard the last few weeks. 

What a way to end a fantastic box! 

[Nino]

4 hours ago, 99call said:

I think you are confused.   the red and white hazard tape is not for corona virus..... this is just ******Nino Danger*******!

Thanks @99call - I love having my own "Danger Zone" well marked. ? keeps me safe.

[Astar20]

Punch short de punch, wow I'm impressed glorious buttery savory spice. I hate the format but think I'm going to go deep on these! 

 

[lovethehaze]

PET DIC 16 HUPC. Just smoking the house down

LGR AGO 17. These 48’s are soooo good

[Shatner's Bassoon]

R y J Churchill MSA ABR 19

 

[JohnS]

Cohiba Sublimes 2004 - Edición Limitada 2004

The Cohiba Sublimes was a limited edition release that came out in 2004, the year after the Cohiba Double Coronas was released in 2003. When it came out it was noted, for the time, as a large cigar; not for its length like the prominentes Cohiba Double Coronas, but rather for its 54 ring gauge girth x 164 mm (or 6½ inches) length. Perhaps the thinking of Habanos S.A. at the time was to follow in the footsteps of the 2002 Cohiba Siglo VI. When that came to market in 2003 it was a ground-breaker for being the largest ring-gauged regular production cigar and similarly, this was the largest ring-gauged cigar in the Limited Edition series to that point.

The notes for the cold draw was similar to my previous cigar, the Cohiba Double Coronas, with cocoa, cedar and leather flavours, although the cedar was more dominant this time. The initial first third had cocoa, leather, a touch of spice and Earthiness, which aren't flavours I normally equate with this marca.

The word Sublime means 'to render finer in quality' in English. I figure this may be why Habanos S.A has only released this vitola 16 times in the last twenty years, with eleven of these regional editions. Apart from the Cohiba Sublimes in 2004, the 2008 Montecristo Sublimes has been the only other Limited Edition release. There has also been two La Casa del Habanos Exclusive releases; the 2010 La Gloria Cubana Immensos (although since rumoured discontinued in 2014) and the 2013 Bolivar Libertador.

As I drew further down on the cigar, I was amazed how rich this cigar was on my palate. I got a touch of baking spice here and there, but the Earthiness, cedar and leather mixed with the large plumes of smoke belied the age of the cigar, in my view.

In the middle third, the flavours remained consistent with leather and Earthy flavours, however I was again surprised when I retrohaled and picked up more cedar and cocoa and refined baking spice through the nose, but not strong spice. I was more happy to retrohale rather than draw the cigar at this stage, which for me is quite an anomaly.

The construction on this cigar was all class, there were no touch-ups, and the ash-length was consistently long. The cigar continued to be quite vibrant and rich on the palate into the final third.

In summary, this 2004 Cohiba Sublimes was a little richer and more spicy than the 2003 Cohiba Double Coronas but not as much in both qualities as the Cohiba 1966 and Cohiba Robustos Supremos Limited Editions (which I recently smoked). 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 Siglo VI. Finally, I'd like to thank @Trevor2118 for gifting me this cigar to review and share.