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The letter nfulton got is the standard Custom seizure letter guys have been getting for years. It's the letter you get when Customs actually catches your order of cigars when it's coming into the US. All that happens is they destroy the cigars and send you that warning letter. I've NEVER...

Very cool! :thumbs:

After extensive searching, only Cigar King in Scottsdale carries ANY La Lunas whatsoever, and it's a house brand made by La Luna specially for them. For some reason, they seem to have pulled out of the retail distribution game. I guess you can only buy from the factory. That's a shame :(...

I saw that one, but that was written in 2001. Looks like they hit bust during the boom......and apparently they hit bust again sometime around 2003 or 2004...that's the last time I remember seeing internet vendors selling La Luna.

In the past, Cuban cigar boxes used to be stamped with the color grade of the wrapper leaf. If you find pics of old 80's and 70's boxes of Cuban cigars, you'll often see a stamp on the bottom reading "Claro," "Claro Claro," or "Maduro" (haven't seen any pics of stamps for "Colorado" or any...

Here's a brand I heard great things about when I first began venturing into online cigar forums, but I never actually got to try. I can remember when this brand and Bucanero were THE sticks to have. If you had Bucs or La Lunas to trade, you could get anything. People were trading away Montes...

My landlord/liquor merchant (yes, you read that right, my landlord owns the liquor store on the first floor) recently started carrying a curious new thing: Old Grand-Dad 114. I almost got a bottle, since it was very reasonably priced, but I've got a lot of bourbon on my shelf right now and...

Talked about for a while, decided I'd finally freaking do it. Last year, I renounced Cuban snobbery. I finally came full circle and realized that, while Cuban cigars are great, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic are also producing excellent cigars. Going back and looking at all...

Cohibas, at their best (AT LEAST five years age, preferably more), can taste just like, as one noted cigar author put it, "sipping a vanilla milkshake while walking through a freshly-cut lawn on a midsummer evening." As ridiculously poetic as all that may sound, I have gotten much the same...

That makes very glad that I bought four boxes from Mark's store over Xmas! :thumbs:

I don't know if any cigar could stand up to the strong anise flavor of absinthe. But I will give you a big thumbs up for your taste in absinthe brands. Jade is probably the best out there, and Ted Breaux (the former New Orleanian who makes it) is a very cool guy. I've talked to him before on...

Nice article! And I like the other Top Shelf reviews you wrote as well! :thumbs:

Here's the article I got the picture of the new-style bottle from LINK Did a little digging, apparently the 90 proof is what's been sold outside KY for the last 3-4 years and the 101 proof was only available in Kentucky. And now, I don't think they make 101 proof version at all anymore.

Are you sure? ??? When I started drinking bourbon two years ago, all I ever saw in the liquor store were the new-style bottles, and people were already complaining about the change to 90 instead of 101 proof.

Went out for my b-day last night to a bar called Quencher's. Really good beer and whisk(e)y selection, but what really caught my eye was a strange bottle all the way in the back behind some other bourbons. It was an original 101-proof Wild Turkey Russel's Reserve! The style of bottle you see...

The propaganda machine in Miami is almost as bad as that in Cuba itself. Of course, they can say ANYTHING they want about Castro's Cuba! They could tell you that Fidel and higher party members regularly sweep the streets in search of babies to eat, that every Cuban lives in a dog house and...

Also....why do all those conspiracy sites have banners for Ron Paul? If you think the American gov. is controlled by a coalition of Zionists, Freemasons, Illuminati, and Grey aliens, then what's the use of voting? :laugh:

Is it double plus good?

Oh, and another thing about Blue Havana. You walk in that humidor, look at the price tags, and say, "Jeez, these are a little overpriced." Then they ring you up AND ADD THE TOBACCO TAX AT THE REGISTER!!! :angry:

Only prob. is I live IN the city (Logan Square). If this m7 smokes well, I might be tempted to make the drive out there. I see Cigar King in Skokie has them too.