Congrats!

Another Blackbird off to a promising start. This time it's the Crow, which is a San Andres wrapper, Dominican binder, Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania filler. Pepper, cedar, sweet and sour sauce.

Blackbird Superb Toro. Habano wrapper, the rest is undisclosed. I'm pretty sure I'm tasting some Dominican (Olor maybe) in there. At about 1.5 inches in, I'm liking this one a lot so far. ETA: at the halfway point the flavor profile fell off a cliff and went from a complex and spicy to dry...

Another Tat Corojo, seems to be burning a bit fast but very good.,

Well I was hoping this Liga Privada 10 would be a suitable Christmas night cigar but the construction and burn were atrocious. The flavor was good, when it worked, but that was easily less than half the time. I decided to follow it with something cheap and strong.

Merry Christmas!

Tat Cohetes Corojo for an afternoon quickie. Beautiful little cigar, smooth and very oily wrapper, and great flavor.

Jas Sum Kral Kralot from a sampler. MSA over Nicaraguan guts. Pretty linear but very decent. Better than the price ($3.25) for sure.

Blackbird Unkind. My first from this maker. Very dry texture and flavor, reminded me of some AJ blends in that regard. Terrific construction. I picked up a few of their other blends to try that sounded good, hopefully I like them a little better than this one.

Thanks @JoeGibs! I don't think I've had a Don Carlos for over a decade!

Happy birthday!

I say we keep the numbers all month but don't really care since it's totally random anyway. And I completely forgot I'd won! Lol

Jas Sum Kral Tyrannical Buc Maduro from a sampler. 5.5x60 fatty. Just ok. Probably better in a normal size.

Man o War Puro Authentico for a run to take a pickup load of cardboard to the recycler. ETA: let's try attaching the pic this time!