Happy birthday!

Roma Craft Aquitaine Sabertooth. This thing's an absolute beast. ETA: 5x56 and I smoked it for damn near 2 hours as well.

I love it, and that's just the kind of thing I was talking about when saying your cigar of the year may not necessarily be the "best" cigar.

Tat 7th Tuxtla.

There's no such thing as a time machine. We're just using prescience to see the future!

Edit: Title corrected, thanks @bfreebern Inspired by the cigar of the month thread, what was your own cigar of the year for 2025? That could mean different things for different people. Maybe it was the straight up best cigar you had, but maybe it was one that was extra special for another...

Tatuaje Cohetes Corojo will take December for me. Small but packed with great flavor.

Stolen Throne Castle 919. Ecuador Habano Claro wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, Nicaraguan and Peruvian filler. Made at the Noel Rojas factory, and actually reminds me a lot of his 10th Anniversary cigar but maybe a bit better than that one IMO. Medium, fairly dry feel, toast, oak, earth, and pepper.

$$ sent, thanks for running this, as always, Michael!

Happy birthday, Jon!

Happy new year!

Happy birthday!

Roma Craft Neanderthal from the sticker pass. Definitely a heavy smoke.

My new exercise program is that I run for fifteen minutes every day. If I miss a day, then I add fifteen minutes to the next day. This has really been a game changer. Tomorrow I'm supposed to run for three months.

Viva La Vida from the sticker pass. Pretty good. Recognizable as an AJ blend but smoother than many of his that I've had.

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.