That is a great cigar

Not a bad score today.

La Gran Llave maduro this evening. I've never had one before so I have no idea what to expect.

How is it Pete?
Blanton's and cracker crumbs for me tonight.

Quite good. Smooth, slight pepper, dough, tobacco, cocoa, nothing up front and in your face. Construction is great. I needed to touch it up a few times but it is quite breezy tonight.

Picked up two 6 packs of Gurkha tonight. Includes a ghost

Okay HRK, do you have an area rug in your garage, or a tractor in your living room?

The end of loooong week. Cheers.

My first time with one of these. First half was very mild almost boring. A doughy pretzel flavor, some cedar and a darker wood flavor like oak maybe, with a hint of saltiness. Second half hits you with a "oh shit" blast of pepper and cocoa on top of the previous flavors. The aroma is very cubanesque, smooth and almost sweet smelling. Red pepper and spice retrohale. A very good and surprising smoke, i didn't expect the flavor bomb to pop out in the second half in such an explosive way.

OK, official opinion of that La Gran llave...leave it on the shelf. I never gave a finished review of it. The flavor profile was lacking from the first third to the nub. The pepper bomb it was when first lit dropped off and the rest of the flavors stayed muted, if there were any.

I was shoveling some snow we got today and grabbed a Blend Lab JO-6550 to smoke. This is better than last night's cigar. Now to prepare for the possibility of feet of snow on Tuesday...

TGIF Gentlemen

Broadleaf sampler showed up today!

Could I ask a REALLY huge favor of y'all.......

When you post a pic of a bunch of cigars, could you please list them out individually (if bundle is of several brands/types) or just list what it is if it's all the same thing. And even if the band is visible...I ain't that sharp. It would REALLY help this cigar neophyte out TREMENDOUSLY!!

Thanks!!

Sorry erj. Tatuaje recently released a huge Broadleaf collection and i got a sampler of 1 of each type. There are 10 sizes in all. Heres more info.

http://www.newhavanacigars.com...Cigars_com_s/153.htm

Morning brothers.

I had this La Gloria Medaille d'Or #2 last night it was sooooooo good.

This was from Thursday night. Not many places to smoke a stogie on a trip, so I take the opportunity when I can.

What a great smoke. I haven't really been impressed by any cubans except the monte #2, the #4s are pretty good but not great. This RA is fantastic though.

Jay, you have to try the Ramon Allones - Allones Superiores.

It's a LCDH double banded bargain at a bit less that $10 a stick. It is well worth the price. I'm out or I'd sent you one.

I think you'd enjoy Cuban's even more by staying away from the mass produced sticks. Usually when you hear about inconsistency and plugged cigars... it's those mass produced cigars.

If you like the Monte twang, the Petite Edmundo is one of the most consistent. Far fewer are produced compared to the #2 and #4. You don't have to go through as many to get a great one. :+)

Thanks for the suggestion Jeff. Ill add some more to my collection at some point. Right now im hoarding money and making room for the Texas cigar festival. Ill have some stuff to give away a few karmas from the swag bag.