1st Cigar that blew you away!

I have smoked a lot of cigars in the past.  Lots of CoRo and Esplendidos when I was on the road.  I had no idea what I was smoking then (figuratively and possibly literally, at times).  I thought they were great at the time.
 
The first cigar that truly blew me away, however, was shortly after I joined here.  Wurm sent me some PnS MFLB.  Mind.  Blown.  A very close second place would be my first Padron Panatella.
 
This place truly helped me learn to appreciate cigars, rather than simply just smoking cigars.
 
Vegas Robaina Don Alejandro at a friends's kid's bar mitzvah. It was just astounding. At the end of the night there were some left in the box so I helped myself to a few.
 
Mine was a WOAM that drunkfish sent me when I was in Iraq.  That thing was so good it didn't want to put it down, so I carved a match stick to a point and smoked it until my lips nearly burnt.
 
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My first real cigar, an Indios Rothschild Maduro, certainly blew me away and was the entire reason I decided to keep smoking cigars. The flavors it produced at the time were the exact idea I had in my head of how a cigar would taste. At that point I was hooked.
 
The experience was not really reproduced until I had a Padron Millennium Maduro a few years back. That was cigar nirvana.
 
I would have to say an '08 Monte Sublime. It was like a layered chocolate cake! I haven't had that much chocolate in a cigar since. Still wish I had the rest of that box.
 
[SIZE=11pt]For me it’s Belicosos Finos. It’s my all time favorite and it making me happy till now.[/SIZE]
 
The one that really swept my feet away and also made me stop breathing for the next 20 minutes, I don't know the name of. It had a darkish wrapping and corona size. Probably a convenient store cheapo. Anyway, I figured out that I would make smoke rings (probably not entirely sober at the time), so I "hotpuffed" id and made a biiig looong draw which I inhaled. Needless to say, it was "lights out" for the next 20 minutes..  :laugh:  This was probably 25 years ago.
 
But the one that really made me want to continue the cigar hobby was a Davidoff Millennium Blend Robusto. It was enjoyed with a good Dalmore single malt 15 years on the patio a lovely sunny afternoon just after finishing an Argentinian Entrecote steak. I've been smoking cigars regularily only abt 5 years, and the one in mention was enjoyed a mere three years ago.
 
Padron 1926 anniv.  (Probably in the belicoso or robusto vitola range.  Can't really remember.)  Before this cigar, cigar was just a curiosity that I indulged in from time to time.
 
Edit: Probably a no 6 or no 35.
 
First one that really blew me away was an Opus X #5. Got it in my newbie trade sampler. Was going to save it for a long time because at that time I never thought I would get another one. Stepthirteen told me I had to smoke it and do a review. Amazing cigar. So much better than anything I had smoked up to that point.

That was the first of many, many Opus I've enjoyed.
 
I can't remember which I smoked first, but it was either the AF Work of Art Maduro or Between the Lines.  Haven't had either in years, may have to go find some.
 
A ten year old Bolivar Corona Gigante.
 
I had been smoking turds from General Cigar for years before I found out what I was missing.
 
for me it was either the OG release of the RP Edge Sumatra or the CAO Brazila Gol

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Nihon_Ni said:
Mine was a WOAM that drunkfish sent me when I was in Iraq.  That thing was so good it didn't want to put it down, so I carved a match stick to a point and smoked it until my lips nearly burnt.
 
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The picture tells the story.  Nicely done.
 
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