Good Cigar suggestions...

**Donnie** · 3rd February 09, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by walkerk

Hey guys, I'm not a moderator or anything. But this is way off the topic of kilts AND there's a perfectly good section of The Pub dedicated to tobacco which is just begging for posts.

http://www.xmarksthepub.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=11

Hope to see you over there.

Maybe he doesn't want to register in yet another forum. This IS the "Off Topic" section! ( incase you didn't notice!)

**beowulf67** · 19th June 08, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by McNulty

Another cigar smoker. Yeaah!!!
Ghurka G3 Toro Maduro 6x52 is my current brand. I get them from Jr. Cigars. They are the Jr. Alternatives and run about $33 for 20. The only difference between the Jr.s and the real thing is the $ I get to keep in MY pocket. Rocky Patel The Edge, or LaGloria Cubana Serie R #5 Maduro. Jr, Thompson, and Cigar King all have 5 packs you can buy and sample. I guess I'm still looking for that one cigar that will suit me. Sorta like kilts!!!
Nulty

I love the JR alternatives to the cuban brands.

**Adam Pound** · 3rd February 09, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer

I just picked up a box of the Perdomo Lot 23's belicosos, and they're very nice. I also like the AVO Domaine.

I was at a tabacconist the other day, and they were launching the new Churchill (the brand/line, not size, obviously) made by Davidoff. I'm curious to try one, but I had already picked up a box, and a few tins of pipe tobacco, so I took a pass.

Had a couple of Davidoffs last week. Really quite good.
Have to make another trip to Cuba to get some more Cohibas as well. And rum. And coffee....

**Raphael** · 3rd February 09, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Adam Pound

Had a couple of Davidoffs last week. Really quite good.
Have to make another trip to Cuba to get some more Cohibas as well. And rum. And coffee....

Stop teasing our American Neighbour.

**IrishGodfather** · 19th June 08, 05:47 AM

Hey has anyone ever heard of Arganese cigars??? I read about them in a magazine yesterday and wanted to know how they are.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 19th June 08, 03:38 PM

Whether sitting around the Club in my trews (MacMillan hunting-- modern colours), or enjoying a post prandial snifter whilst wearing my hand stitched kilt (MacMillan ancient-- modern colours) at the White Heather Ball {all of which is a shameless attempt to drag this thread back to some semblance of an off-topic topic} I do enjoy a good cigar, usually a top drawer Don Guillermo from the Dominican Republic. Note that I said enjoy, not smoke. I believe that a gentleman doesn't smoke a cigar, he savors it, in much the same way that he savors a decent scotch or a fine armagnac. It should be savored the same way a gentleman savors sliding behind the wheel of his Rolls-Royce every time he takes it out for a drive. In short, lighting up a cigar should be something one does with a sense of occasion, not merely to satisfy a craving for the addictive qualities of nicotine.

No, a good cigar is above cravings, just as surely as white socks are the mark of a rube (especially when twinned with brown shoes and a blue suit). Indeed, Mr. Kipling (a Freemason, story teller, and well-dressed judge of the human condition) summed it up best when he penned these immortal lines, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke".

As I stand here, swathed in tartan and puffing a cheroot, I couldn't agree more.

**The Wizard of BC** · 19th June 08, 04:52 PM

My hands down favorite is----

Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas Number III

Size: 6 3/4" X 43 ring
Strength: Full Bodied Origin: Dominican Republic Wrapper: Cameroon Shape: Straight 10-year old Cameroon wrapper, Dominican and Nicaraguan Ometepe filler, Honduran binder.super-premium cigar!

This is the Lonsdale size with the green band. Only 600 boxes of these are made each year making this one of the rarest cigars in the world.
I don't care if it's rare, I just like the things. I have only one left from a box of 20 I stumbled on about 10 years ago. I search everywhere I go to find another box.

**Bryan** · 19th June 08, 05:36 PM

My favorite is the Arturo Fuente Hemingway Classic. With a Cameroon wrapper, what more could you want? A latest favorite of mine is San Cristobal, a fairly new cigar made by Ashton (of which I am definitely NOT a fan), it's a great medium to full-bodied maduro.

**hallmarktex** · 20th June 08, 10:25 AM

I will second ( or third) the recommendation for JR alternatives. I like their take on the Cuban Cohibas. Very nice.
If you want a good name brand then the Joya de Nicaragua 1970 series is very good. I don't like most Dominican cigars because they just taste like smoke (no flavor) but I will make exceptions for the Arturo Fuente Double Chateau Fuente and the La Gloria Cubanas. Churchill size all.