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Caldwell Lost & Found Super Stroke’s filler includes Nicaraguan, Doinican and Brazilian tobacco. It’s cloaked in a tad oily light brown Ecuadorian Sun Grown wrapper. The wrapper is smooth. Not so…

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RP Shade

Rocky Patel Shade Toro

This kind of missed for me. The notes hit all around the hay profile and I just didn't enjoy it the way I thought I would.

Paired with…

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Montecristo Espada Guard Toro is a Nicaraguan puro covered in a Habano wrapper. The bands are plentiful and quite exquisite in appearance but there are more bands than wrapper, including…

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Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich is another trick in Guy Fiere’s arsenal of marketing warfare. I’ve been a fan ever since Guy featured one of my favorite restaurants in Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighborhood…

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Ozgener Bosphorus 52 features a smooth, dark Ecuadorian Sumatran wrapper with nary a vein to be found – nice. Soft, squeezy, box-pressed beauty. You have to love the blue, gold…

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Back deck- ✔️, Comfy deck chair- ✔️, cowboy hat on- ✔️, hot fresh cup of delicious coffee- ✔️, one amazing My Father Blue cigar- ✔️✔️✔️… nice sunny Tuesday afternoon in…

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Just an incredible cigar made by ERDM… I’ve never had a bad one… they’re easy on the wallet, but taste like a high end stogie… they are certainly in my…

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Avo Classic No. 2 uses Dominican tobacco with an oily grey-brown Ecuadoran Connecticut Shade wrapper on the dark side of Connecticut (“Help me, Obi-Won”). There are a few visible veins…

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Here in Wilmington, NC, sitting in a comfortable chair on my back deck feeling the cool breezes brought to me courtesy of the latest hurricane that thankfully avoided us (God…

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Got Creamed

Smoked: Davidoff Escurio

The Raiders got creamed today. I’m still loyal as F’. I’m smoking another Silver & Black labeled Davidoff. This time the Escurio, a medium bodied smoke that starts off with…

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Incredible fall Saturday. Cool temps and leaves turning. Sinistro Mr Black is a coffee, spice and molasses forward blend. Perfect construction and very enjoyable profile.

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As I’m watching 2 5-0 teams going at it I’m enjoying a Black Swan. This Oliva starts out with cocoa and d pepper that slowly moves to chocolate sweetness but…

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Perdomo Legacy Epicure Connecticut Toro Extra weights in at 6 x 54 and uses Nicaraguan filler, a Nicaraguan Shade Grown binder and is covered in a smooth golden tan Ecuador…

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Soul of Fire

Plasencia Alma del Fuego Concepcion

This was a pretty darn good smoke after a long day.

Easy to kick back and enjoy a cigar when it is a good cigar.

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Guardian of the Farm Rambo is essentially a short Nicaraguan puro corona enveloped in a corojo wrapper.

Flavor profile: sweet, somewhere between graham crackers and cinnamon, mild pepper, a touch of…

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Cuba Aliados Original Blend is a Hondruran puro brought into the Oliva fold. The wrapper is reddish brown, toothy and not very oily with some serious veinage. One in particular…

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Rojas Street Tacos Carnitas Short Corona Carnitas has a Nicaraguan binder, Nicaraguan filler and a smooth light tan Ecuador Connecticut wrapper with no oiliness. The cigar features two bands –…

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Cao is always a favorite. From the brazillia to the Flathead. Bones is another good cigar. Not my favorite, but a great cigar for hanging out with friends.

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Enjoying the dark, smooth tones for the series R maduro. A nice treat for poker night!!!

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Another Raiders Win

Smoked: Davidoff Yamasa

To celebrate the Raiders going 3-0 I decided to have another Davidoff(silver and black label). The Yamasa is a perfectly constructed medium bodied smoke It has a nice amount of…

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Bob brought along a sealed bag of Eiroa unbanded sticks sold at a cigar event in Kentucky 7 or 8 years ago. There is no identification of the blend, although…

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Caldwell Lost & Found One Night Stand is a medium bodied stick made from a blend discovered on one of Robert Caldwell’s earliest Indiana Jones adventures in search of the…

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Caldwell 22 Minutes to Midnight Habano de Oro is one of two Caldwell signature “23:38” banded cigars in the 22 Minutes 4 cigar series. Robert Caldwell and Tony Bellatto teamed…

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It has been awhile since I lit up a La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor – a box-pressed Nicaraguan with a medium brown Mexican San Andres wrapper with tight seams…

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Herrara Esteli Norteno Brazilian Maduro Piramide Fino has a Connecticut Broadleaf binder, Nicaraguan filler and a dark oily somewhat toothy Brazilian Mata Fina wrapper. The seams are tight and the…

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