and I should have listened to you and the others on the board who I thought were just being asses. I owe you and hereby extend my apologies for anything that I have questioned you about or any rude or otherwise inappropriate remarks that I have made. I made the mistake of taking a defensive...

Here she is . . . the double corona OR Anejo. I haven't been a big fan of the Anejos I've experienced, so I was anxious to see what almost a decade of aging would do to this dark beast. Dark . . . this stick doesn't have a maduro wrapper . . . it has to be oscuro. The oily wrapper was pretty...

I've read a lot about this cigar and was pleased to work out a trade with Isy for one. According to advertisements, these cigars are wrapped with a Nicaraguan leaf grown in Jalapa, a northern area of the country near the Honduran border, with a Dominican piloto filler and corojo binder. This...

I love Padrons. I really need to get that out of the way before starting. Well, that's not entirely accurate. I don't really care for the '64 line . . . due mostly to the price and what I feel isn't a better smoke than classics. Oh well . . . I digress. I got this cigar in a blind trade...

Being a big fan of all things Tatuaje, I was looking forward to trying this cigar. A little wonder from Miami and, voila, there she goes up in flames. The Ecuadorian sun-grown wrapper is what I would call just a medium brown. The pics look a little darker than the actual cigar. I would...

Had a nice morning and the lure of an '06 Monte #2 was more than I could stand. I pulled this one from the humi and admired the classic cigar. It was adorned with a dark brown wrapper . . . a bit bumpy and veiny. Feel was spongy and there really wasn't much by way of aroma. Oil? Whew . . ...

Friday morning was nice, so I decided to fire up one of these reserve selection smokes. I didn't have long, so I picked the corona especial. It sported a light brown wrapper, had minimal veins and was fairly dry. There really wasn't much by way of pre-light aroma. Light peppery spice and...

Earlier in the week I enjoyed this lancero that was received in a trade from Ken. The corojo wrapper was dark chocolate and oily, with a fairly strong barnyard aroma. The wrapper was fairly bumpy, with some prominent veins, but, overall, a nicely constructed cigar. Initial puffs were of spice...

I would like to start off by thanking Ed (Spivy) for this wonderful smoke. He gifted this one and I recently had the fortune of picking up a few more. Yesterday morning I decided it was about time I smoked one of these monsters (no pun intended), so I lit ole Franky up. This cigar is dark...

but I'm firing up the new Ghostbusters game for the PS3 and am pumped!! :laugh: Anybody else got it or bought the new Bluray version of the movie?

I spent Father's Day afternoon with my two beautiful girls. They enjoyed the pool, as did I for a little while, then I relaxed and partook in a fine lancero. This is really a beautiful cigar. The wrapper is a dark, oily brown (fine veins) that appears perfectly constructed. Feel is stiff to...

I received this cigar in a trade with Isy. I needed an assortment of lanceros and he was more than happy to oblige. This is a well constructed cigar . . . medium brown in color, semi-oily wrapper with minimal veins. Pre-light, there was a nice barnyard smell. The draw was a little on the...

Many thanks to Charley for sending this cigar as a tag-along in a recent trade. I've seen references to these mystical Johnny-O cigars, but I have not had the pleasure to enjoy one . . . until this afternoon. Boy, I've been missing out. This stick is from the '07 batch and sports a chocolate...

I don't know if this has been tried before, but what do you guys think about picking a stick every so often (like weekly) and doing a thread where those with the smoke can review it at the same time? Example - Next week could be Bolivar Royal Corona week and we do a thread with as many BRC...

Over the past weekend, I finally finished up the behemoth of a read that is The Count of Monte Cristo, so what better time could there be to light up this behemoth of a cigar? :D After 5,400 pages on my iPhone (yes, it is wonderful for reading), I was happy to count down the last couple...

I've waited quite a while to smoke my first Tat Black and today was the day. The kiddos wanted to swim when we got home, so after a little debate as to the smoke, I finally decided it was time to light up one of these bad boys. The wrapper was medium brown, oily, and had some slight...

Got a couple of these from a Robbie sampler 2-3 months ago and grabbed one this morning to accompany the ride to work. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this stick, as I have read reviews all over the board. As such, I didn't intend to do a review, but I was pleasantly surprised and...

I've been trying out a few smaller smokes, as the humidity and heat here in the deep south are wreaking havoc on the stogies I was enjoying a couple months ago. Luckily, Charley came through in a trade with some '06 PLPCs. I felt a little lazy this morning, so I fired one up before hitting the...

I picked up this stick from Robbie (miamipadronsmoker) in a sampler and promised to do a review. Robbie said they were smoking great and boy was he right! The girls wanted to play in their new pool this afternoon and, after what seems like a month of rain and ridiculous humidity, this...

Well, I have bled my torch a couple times and nada on a light. It went from working just fine to crap. What it does is slowly leak fluid. You can sit it down and listen to the faint hiss. I have no idea what the problem is . . . just wondering if it's dead or I need to do something other...