Pepin Help

[Seth]

BOTL, I need your wise council. My cigar budget has taken a hit and I must not go with my normal answer, Screw It Get Them Both. I am looking to purchase one of the following:

The Pepin Garcia Introductory Sampler includes:
2 - Don Pepin Garcia Blue Generoso (6â€￾ x 50)
2 - Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles (6â€￾ x 50)
2 - 601 Serie Connecticut Robusto (5â€￾ x 50)
2 - 601 Serie Habano Robusto (5â€￾ x 50)
2 - CI Legends Series Pepin Garcia (5.75â€￾ x 54)

or

Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles
Toro - 2 mazo 12 CIGARS 6.0 x 50 In Stock $49.95

I have had the Don Pepin Black label and enjoyed it very much. Is there enough difference in the various Pepin labels to get the sampler or just go with the Achilles which seems the better value?

Thanks,

Seth

 

[Mrepp]

I would go with the first as its good to try different smokes and see what you like, especially since it represents pepin stuff more, the Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles is actually blended by someone else.

 

[tsmckenney]

Atlantic cigar has a Don Pepin sampler you might be interested in.

http://www.atlanticcigar.com/donpepin.html

I don't know if you've ever had the 601 black label, but it's the mild one of the bunch. Tasty, but mild.

Good hunting.

 

[jcritt]

Seth,
The Achilles is not a better value and quite honestly is not one of the better cigars in the stable of blends from Padilla and Pepin. If you would like to do a trade for some Pepin sticks let me know. I can cover 2 Achilles, 2 Legends, 2 Blue robusto, and 1 each of the JJ beli and sublime. That way your trading sticks and you can hang on to your cash. Let me know if that works for you.

 

[theorangeman]

Seth,
The Achilles is not a better value and quite honestly is not one of the better cigars in the stable of blends from Padilla and Pepin. If you would like to do a trade for some Pepin sticks let me know. I can cover 2 Achilles, 2 Legends, 2 Blue robusto, and 1 each of the JJ beli and sublime. That way your trading sticks and you can hang on to your cash. Let me know if that works for you.

Completely agree and this sounds like a good way to try a variety of good Pepin smokes. However, don't forget about the brown labels!

The Atlanticcigar sampler looks good too - nice selection for the money.

 

[wanlail]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

 

[MiamiCubano]

The Achilles is a good stick, but honestly not my favorite in the Pepin-crafted sticks.
If I had to, I'd go with the Pepin sampler if you're looking to get a cross-section tasting of his sticks. Otherwise, I'd just try to pick up some Blue Labels (or however many of them you can afford to get right now).

 

[The Volusianator]

The Blue and 601's are VERY tasty.

 

[grateful1]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

 

[cuppajack]

Yeah, defiantly go with the sampler.

There might also be some of the Holiday 6-Belicoso samplers out there still. The have 2 browns (1 regular and one conju), a red, a JJ, a black, and a cabiguan stick. A really good breadth of the Pepin stuff.

I just found some on-sale at serious cigars:
http://www.seriouscigars.com/types/Build_m...t=Sampler+Packs

A damn fine price too...

 

[SammyP]

I would go with the first as its good to try different smokes and see what you like, especially since it represents pepin stuff more, the Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles is actually blended by someone else.

Who blends the Achilles, then?

 

[MiamiCubano]

I would go with the first as its good to try different smokes and see what you like, especially since it represents pepin stuff more, the Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles is actually blended by someone else.

Who blends the Achilles, then?

It's a blend by Ernesto Padilla, crafted by Pepin.

 

[MiamiCubano]

Yeah, defiantly go with the sampler.

There might also be some of the Holiday 6-Belicoso samplers out there still. The have 2 browns (1 regular and one conju), a red, a JJ, a black, and a cabiguan stick. A really good breadth of the Pepin stuff.

I just found some on-sale at serious cigars:
http://www.seriouscigars.com/types/Build_m...t=Sampler+Packs

A damn fine price too...

Also gotta add...you can not go wrong with the folks over at Serious Cigars. Damn fine people.

 

[eyetek]

I have some of the Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles if anyone would like to try these. They do taste like a slightly milder version of the tat's from Pepin. I also have some of the Don Pepin Garcia Blue Generoso's...now that is one spicy bomb!

I can let some go if anyone is looking.

eyetek

 

[SammyP]

I would go with the first as its good to try different smokes and see what you like, especially since it represents pepin stuff more, the Padilla Edicion Especial Achilles is actually blended by someone else.

Who blends the Achilles, then?

It's a blend by Ernesto Padilla, crafted by Pepin.

I guess I don't understand the whole "blended by" thing. Like with Pete Johnson, Tatuaje cigars were his idea, and he described what he wanted to Pepin, and through trial and error, Pepin came up with the blend(s) that Pete liked. I assumed the Padilla/Pepin relationship was the same, where Padilla has the ideas and final say, but Pepin does the actual blending. Is it semantics, or is there a difference? I'm ignorant here, but am curious as to just how that works.

~Edit.....just realized that's a total threadjack. If Serious has a deal on a sampler, they come highly recommended by me. That CI sampler isn't bad, though.

 

[wanlail]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

:blush: I think i dropped 8 or 9 pep cigars for like 30 bucks. :laugh: Oh well.

 

[Seth]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

:blush: I think i dropped 8 or 9 pep cigars for like 30 bucks. :laugh: Oh well.

Hmmmm .... What's your poison?


Seth

 

[Capt Redbeard]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

:blush: I think i dropped 8 or 9 pep cigars for like 30 bucks. :laugh: Oh well.

You did and I was there to catch them.


As for the samplers I say go for the one from seriouscigars, those look like some mighty tasty smokes. I think I'm going to grab one of them as well.

 

[wanlail]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

:blush: I think i dropped 8 or 9 pep cigars for like 30 bucks. :laugh: Oh well.

Hmmmm .... What's your poison?


Seth

women... :laugh: oh, you mean liquor...... women.... :whistling:

 

[Seth]

too bad you didn't hit me up when i was drunk last week. I had a bunch of pep cigars for sale

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:








<edit - the first set of smokes is the one I'd go after>

:blush: I think i dropped 8 or 9 pep cigars for like 30 bucks. :laugh: Oh well.

Hmmmm .... What's your poison?


Seth

women... :laugh: oh, you mean liquor...... women.... :whistling:

OK, but it is not my fault if she is bitchy when you let her out of the FedEx box!


Seth