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[westg]

Red night at Cigar Social Perth 

[Habana Mike]

Opus X Love Affair. A few years on it. 2009. Typical strength and apple pie spice. Good closer for the night.

[havanaclub]

LGR DIC 18 Fuerza


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[Wookie]

2014 Genios

[inter4alia]

[SigmundChurchill]

Esmeralda at sunrise.

CoRo

D4

La Trova

[FatherOfPugs]

Today's beach cigar.

[LLC]

MUR JUN 12 RASS from a cab. Last time I had one from this cab was about a year ago and it was outstanding, happy to find this one just as good.


TOS DIC 15 HU 56. Also about a year ago that I last had one of these and it was plugged and pitched. This one had great construction and was really enjoyable. Nice way to end the weekend.



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[Chucko8]

7 hours ago, prshah25 said:

How did you like the Valioso? Does it need more rest?

It's the first one that I've tried and I found it to be quite pleasant. Had the true PL DNA in it, the start though wasn't that way and through me for a bit. It settled into PL character about an inch in. Given that I have no previous history with this cigar I have no previous baseline but would say that they are ready to be smoked now.

[Devo]

Great Mag 50, gifted by @GVan! Great smoke with a lot of flavors staring with graham cracker mellowing into a great cream! Excellent! 
 

Great morning stick!  I can see these becoming my morning coffee go to. 
El Principe

[jvd1291]

Partagas shorts, MSU Jun 17. This is actually #2 the first one i lit had a beautiful reddish toothy wrapper, but it was a bum stick. Turned all mushy and didn't want to output any smoke. This one made up for it's siblings shortcomings though and is smoking excellently!

[Connoisseur Kim]

4 hours ago, Habana Mike said:

Opus X Love Affair. A few years on it. 2009. Typical strength and apple pie spice. Good closer for the night.

Never saw you're puffing NCs before! Do you have any fav NCs Mike?

[maverickdrinker]

2014 Trinidad Vigia tonight...



2001 EDRM Tainos today...




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[Ej456]

Tasty No.4 nice way to start the week

[BoliDan]

M#3

[Trimming]

Afternoon break

this Evening 

[Meklown]

PLPC. Pretty tight draw so I thought it can stand on its ash?

[Chucko8]

C&C with a Perla today.

[Raskol]

C&C Time. HDM Epi 2 (2018) from our host.

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[StogieSteve23]

LGR AGO-17 PLMC with my Nespresso before jumping on a work Zoom.  

ASR JUL-18 EE and a Philly Cheesesteak Bao Bun.  

[Mystophales]

Trying a Ramon Allones Specially selected. Trying to step out of my corona sized comfort zone when it comes to the island smokes. bee also trying Lanceros lately (another blind spot). Got a 5er of these, VR Unicode, PL Picadores and Trinidad Fundadores. All new to me. Sogar my favorite of this bunch was the Fundadores but this one was very pleasant as well.

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[Shatner's Bassoon]

Cohiba Robusto AMO MAR 16

 

[torsion]

Checking up on some vintage.
El Rey Del Mundo Tainos.RPO SEP 01
Still a bit of life left, I have one or two left, thinking it's best to smoke them sooner rather than later.I could retrohale this whole stick, lush.
Always glad to have the friends willing to share and opportunities to try sticks from this era.
Cheers to our BOTL@mk05
(Just realised@maverickdrinker we are in sync bro )

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[TTP21]

Incredibly flavorful with slight pepper only on the retro.  An absolute steal at under 6 a stick for 6x44. 

[JohnS]

Cohiba Exquisitos (circa 2018)

It's been a bit under three years since I've had a Cohiba Exquisitos. At 33 ring gauge x 126 mm (or 5 inches) in length, I tell myself that I should have these more, but the issue I find with these is unlike similar panatela ring-gauged cigars, (e.g. the Por Larranaga Montecarlos and the La Gloria Cubana Medaille d'Or No.4) they have a tendency to be tightly rolled. Today's Exquisitos was not like that thankfully, although it did have a little resistance on the draw.

This cigar was youthful, well...at least for a Cohiba vitola, at two years old and the tasting reflected that. Basically it dominated in mocha coffee and sweet honey or perhaps caramel notes and that was it. I've had much older examples of this cigar and frankly I would prefer them within the 5 to 10 year mark, where other traditional Clasica Linea flavours come more to fore and you can get some really nice aged baking spice, which I personally quite like.

No matter, this Cohiba Exquisitos was quite fine. Although if I do get a box down the track I think I'll let it rest for quite some time before lighting the first cigar up.

Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo du Prince SOM Jun 2016

This started off as the smaller doppelgänger of an aged Le Hoyo des Dieux, all cedar and cream with subtle vanilla notes on the edges and remained that way throughout. At around 4 years of age, I'm finding these are finally developing the creamy texture that traditional aged Le Hoyo cigars are known for.

I mention the word 'traditional' as I can emphatically state that the recent larger Le Hoyo cigars, the 2014 de San Juan and 2018 de Rio Seco are not as woody as these classic thinner ring-gauged Le Hoyo cigars and have a creamy texture much younger, especially the de Rio Seco, in my opinion.

The Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo du Prince was deleted in early 2017 and was a FoH forum favourite for much of 2016. If you've picked up a box during this era then you'd be pleased to know how they are developing.