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Your welcome. Sounds like you have a wonderful woman there.
My wife surprised me when she suggested that I could set up a cold weather cigar smoking area in our basement.
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My wife surprised me when she suggested that I could set up a cold weather cigar smoking area in our basement.
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Yeah I'm not a big fan of the big ring gauge cigars either.
I'll check out Tampa Sweethearts and I do enjoy Arturo Fuente Cigars.
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Dang Ringo, that looks good.Man I must be hungry-or just too doped up on meds for my new bout with the flu cause-I thought that Monte Cristos-were just a fancy name for a great Turkey/Ham and cheese sandwich:
But none of that's on my diet right now. Maybe when the weather gets warmer and I'm out burning more calories.
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Thanks and, I get the 1/2 sandwich-soup combo for luch sometimes. Its only about 800 calories and is from Cheddars-about $7 bucks. I get iy with no powdered sugar and get water-no fries but-ill eat the strawberry jam. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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This is one of the best parts our little cigar habit; those special moments and the cigars we enjoyed alone or with good friends. Life is about the moments we make and the things that trigger those memories. Jack your story about the Montecristo reminded me of a moment.
Jack, your story remind of last Fall's antelope hunt celebratory cigars.
For the last few years a cigar smoking BOTL (brother of the leaf) and I go on an Pronghorn Antelope hunt. Early on the first day of last Falls hunt I killed a decent buck, not trophy but respectable. I think speed goat is one of the best tasting game animal we have out West. I'm more of a meat hunter than a trophy hunter so I was thrilled to know I would have meat in the freezer this winter. I had the buck skinned, quartered and on ice within the hour of the kill. (that is the key to great tasting antelope)
For dinner I cooked pan seared backstrap in a sage butter sauce, polenta and veggies all paired with a fine Argentine Malbec. Yes, we live good in hunting camp. After dinner we sat by the camp fire and enjoyed some fine single malt Scotch whisky and Montecristo No. 2. It was a perfect cool Fall evening by the campfire. The sky was clear and we were many miles from the nearest light so we had an inky sky with more stars than you can imagine. The Milky Way stretched from horizon to horizon as we sat, talk, smoked our cigars and drank a bit more whisky than we should have.
Good food, great scenery, fine whisky and one of the worlds best cigars; all shared with a dear friend. Well. that is what it is all about.
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Bill, You are a man after my own heart. Pam just asked me why I would all of a sudden stand up out of my recliner and cheer and shout. I told her that I had just read some of the most profound prose I'd ever seen in my life.
I don't think she got it.
I don't think she got it.
Carl, Yours is a fine looking Monte Cristo! Mine would be for after yours. It is arguably one of the best Cuban cigars goin'. 
You're right Wayne, I DO have a wonderful woman. It occurs to me that some of us in here over married.
Time for true confessions in here. I know there are some serious cigar connoisseurs in here but I have a little number that you can get a box of 5 for about 4 bux. The are very mild and a little on the funky side. I think they are great after a good meal.
Talkin' about Travis Club Senators. After a really spicy meal like Mexican food the just seem to sooth the taste buds and help everything to settle as it should.
Hey I never said I had any class. My favorite wine is Boone's Farm Wild Mountain Grape. What can I say.
Talkin' about Travis Club Senators. After a really spicy meal like Mexican food the just seem to sooth the taste buds and help everything to settle as it should.
Hey I never said I had any class. My favorite wine is Boone's Farm Wild Mountain Grape. What can I say.
Bill I had an uncle that was a serious country boy and hunter. He always said that he could judge a man by the hat he wore. I think he would have taken a look at you and proclaimed you his new best friend.
Awesome hat!
Hmmmm, do we need to have a hat thread here?
Awesome hat!
Hmmmm, do we need to have a hat thread here?
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Time for true confessions in here. I know there are some serious cigar connoisseurs in here but I have a little number that you can get a box of 5 for about 4 bux. The are very mild and a little on the funky side. I think they are great after a good meal.
I can enjoy a really great cigar and try to keep a few in the humidor but I live and smoke at the cheap and cheerful end of the cigar spectrum. There are a bunch of really good hand rolled cigars in the $2 to $6 price range which is the price range where I spend most of my cigar budget.
With that said even the Montecristo No. 2 didn't break the bank. Right now they run about $10 each if you buy a box of 25.
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That's my old barn hat. The wife it calls the toxic waste hat. I think she is a bit embarrassed when I wear out in public.
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I think the first one is from a cruise in the Western Carribean in '06 and I THINK that is a Monte Cristo but I don't usually remove the band until it gets very short so I can't remember for sure
The second one was a European cruise in '13 bought them on the ship and that top one the Especial was the better of the two. And to be honest even smoother and better tasting that a Monte Cristo. Pro'lly the best cigar I ever had Paid 25 bux for each of them and they were both worth it.
The second one was a European cruise in '13 bought them on the ship and that top one the Especial was the better of the two. And to be honest even smoother and better tasting that a Monte Cristo. Pro'lly the best cigar I ever had Paid 25 bux for each of them and they were both worth it.
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A. Fuente produces a high quality cigar and is never a disappointment. Their QC is TOPS and thy are always consistent!
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I've got a tupperdor that's just for Arturo Fuentes.
They are a consistent good smoke.
I usually like trying different cigars but when I just want something I know I'll like, I'll reach for a Fuente.
ACORN
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I haven’t smoked in years but when I did my go-to was the AF 8-5-8’s.
With all the talk about good cigars how about the flip side?
The absolute worst has to be the Parodi’s.
They’re hard as a rock, dry as desert sand, taste like feces, and smell like a stack of burning tires. As kids we’d light em up as they were about a quarter for a pack two and pretty much all we could afford. We thought we looked cool. Like Clint Eastwood.
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GunarSailors
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Here is a good question. I was thinking about getting an old friend a Cuban cigar, but I have no idea what to look for or what is good. Are all Cuban cigars illegal in the US? I was thinking in the 50 dollar range. Please advise, thanks in advance.
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Cuban cigars and US Law concerning them are a bit strange. For years as a US citizen you could not legally buy Cuban cigars or anything else Cuban anywhere in the world due to the economic embargo with Cuba. You couldn't legal buy Cuban cigars and you certainly couldn't bring them into the country. Strangely, a non-citizen could bring Cuban cigars into the country if they were for personal use. All of this was changed in the last days of the last presidential term.
Now a US citizen can buy Cuban cigars and some other products when out of the country (like the old laws ever stopped people from buying Cuban cigars and smoking them when out of the country). Now you can bring in 100 Cuban cigars or $800 worth of cigars per month duty free when returning from your travels out of the United States.
GunarSailors, now to your question. You can buy Cuban cigars and bring them into the United States and give them to your friend. Now to the weird part of the new US rules. You can't send a Cuban cigar to your friend through the mail. If you do, it may get confiscated by US customs but from what I see on many cigar forums that isn't likely to happen. There are plenty of dealers outside the country that ship Cuban cigars into the US. Most seem to get past US customs. I have no idea where these would be priced in your market with the local tax structure but a few of good solid Cuban cigars that most cigars somkers seem to enjoy are the Partagas Series E #4, H. Upmann and Montecristo #2. If you really want to impress then a H. Upmann Sir Winston is really something special.
Of course I kind of think our current rules are pretty silly. If traveling over seas or to Mexico or Canada I can walk into the local La Casa de Habano (the only place to buy where you will know your get real Cubans and avoid the vast amount of fake Cuban cigars) and buy Cuban cigars and bring them back into the country with out hassle from US Customs. If you call that same store, pay using the same credit card and ask them to mail them, then US customs has a real problem with that. That doesn't make much sense.
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Never had ANY problem buying Cuban cigars any where out side the US. Spent the lat 19 years cruising in the Caribbean and every port we have ever had would be happy to sell you all you want.
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