81530 - Don Pepin Garcia Original - Thank you JakeDA Snake

81532: LPH BP Morado Toro

^Toker, I see you got an LFD La Nox that you were interested in. I noticed that the small place is offering them in fivers but not boxes (sold out). I’m wondering what you think about it, if you enjoyed it.

La nox's are fantastic. I buy them by the box whenever I can but they're hard to find sometimes cause it's no secret how good they are.

81535 - Bahia Maduro Poncho

81536 - The Tabernacle Toro

81538 la perla black pearl morado romusto. Aged about 4 years. Too long. They lost that ragged edge but kinda lost the big bold flavor. Still decent

81540 - AF 858 candela

Awesome danm. I love those too

82542 Class 34 no.9

#81,543 - Casa Fuente Serie 5 Special Selection 808 Maduro

Last one from a 2016 small spending splurge at CF.

81548: Montecristo Perlado Toro beautiful cigar but very mild flavor and body
81549: Latitude Zero Signature Series BP Robusto

81550 - Oliva connecticut reserve

81553: La Aurora Preferidos Ruby dated 2013. Some sweetness from the Brazilian wrapper plus more cedar, no stronger, maybe hickory notes than I remember. The hickory note mellows to cedar at the first third. Second third is consistent and good, but maybe a little past prime. Final third the cedar becomes very smooth. Different than I remember, the sweetness from the wrapper has melded away, even though it was paired with a fruity Cabarnet. As I am making a conscience effort to ash off all my old cigars, these probably won't make the cut again in the future, unless there is a really good deal.

Edited the number after noticing two 50's

81554 - Warped La Colmena Black Honey
Well it's been about 5 months I think since I got them. The first was excellent but wanted to give it some rest to see how it comes along. With the sale at tenski I figured I'd give it another go just to make sure I want another box. This did not go well. I'll chalk it up to bad construction. While toasting the foot I noticed a small hollow that should have been a tell. I could not keep this lit and it seemed like it was was getting hot about an inch in. Ended up having to cut about 1.5" off and noticed in center of stick ot had a small burn going. Re-lit and still having issues. No issues with any others in the humidor, I'm sitting around 64/65. At last 1/3 it got better. But by then the flavor was shat. Notice lots of void in the center closer to the foot then heading towards outside further on. Guess I'll chalk it up to a bad stick. Will I buy another box? I guess I'll sleep on it. If it's still available tomorrow I'll call it a sign and throw my money at them. If not l, we'll then sane sign that it's not meant to be.
Tenski has Eagles Descent and Chincalle deeply discounted too I'll likely grab those instead.

Number should be right here. Next is 81555

81556 = 5 Vegas Gold robusto
81557 - Original Cubans robusto
81558 - Oliva V Melanio robusto 2nd

81558 MF El Centurion H 2K CT. Love these. Great construction and burn and they taste amazing. Creamy, peppery and cocoa and coffee notes.

Sorry screwed up the order
81560 MF

81562 - Micallef Experiencia La Crema toro from Delta. Thank you, Delta! That was the first of those I have had, and I liked it. The profile was a little different, which I always appreciate.
81563 - AR Quattro Nicaragua torpedo

Leebo, have you tried any of the “core” AR blends? Habano or Maduro? Or anything else from AR? Last week I smoked a Quattro which is pretty much my favorite cigar and it didn’t burn well. This was the first experience I’ve had like that with AR.

81565 - Zino Platinum c/o Tiver

Looked like a mild smoke, but smoked like a medium smoke. Just how I like it! Thanks Tiver!

81568 Henry Clay LE 2018 perfecto with thanks to jakethesnake. Another cigar I know nothing about.

Plugged right out the gate with a 1/4" clip to both ends of the perfecto. No cold draw. Cut the foot back to the shoulder, extremely tight draw.

Cut the head to the shoulder, extremely tight draw. Lit anyway. Mouth getting a workout but I'm not getting any smoke. Cut the head down to the band, it's only burning on one side of the cigar. Draw still tight. Cut the foot back an inch. One small black tunnel spot in the fresh unlit face. Relit. Same thing. This one's been in my desktop a few weeks, it crunches between my fingers, this is a construction error not mine.

Cut back the foot again now I have a 3" nub cigar. Relit. Draw is normal. Burn line even. Flavors extremely mild light cinnamon cedar spice little bite on retro but not much. The flavors are typical general/ altadis offerings. Did a quick search for these things only seem to find mentions in cigar of the month clubs I don't see any reviews to see if my experience matches others. Add this one as data to reinforce my position that the perfecto is the stupidest cigar shape. More often than not you have to remove the entire taper to smoke the damn things so what's the point in spending the time and material to make the pointy cigars?

This one sucked. Bad construction, minimal flavors. Gonna head downstairs and find something else.

81571 Illusione MK Ultra

Spicy lil fugger for such a tiny cigar. Never had it before, don't really know much about it other than I got em on sale in a fiver and I tend to like illusione. It does only have 3 weeks humidor time. Started off with lots of sharp spice red pepper over cinnamon. Some woody nutty notes followed by cocoa/coffee. Draw is medium and smoke heavy and thick. A bit on the dry side in texture, not my jam. Maybe they just need age. ETA: nope, this one is an Illusione outlier - strong AF intentionally so.

After the ash drop the astringency fell back. It's still not rich and creamy but it's in an acceptable range. More earthy/mineral notes. Very very strong cigar. I've got a full belly and I'm feeling it and I'm only halfway. This is one crazy little cigar.

“MK Ultra” lmao

😂

Bummers.

Would suggest getting the PerfecDraw Tool but iffin’ you don’t get a whole lotta plugged / tight draw smokes, might not be worth the cost. For me it’s been a cigar saver as I had a bunch of Cuban coronas that had draw issues so the tool came in real handy. Even when a cigar’s draw is okay but I want it looser / more open, I’ll take the Tool to help get it where I prefer. Of course ymmv.