Your first box purchase?

[7kingsguy]

Think i bought a box of chinchaleros from our sponsor about 10 years back. Still have 1left as a memento but they are very average smokes.

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[handlebarpipe]

The first and only boxes I have ever bought were a couple of cabinets of Flor de Cano Short Churchills. They were wonderful cigars to smoke but perhaps I should have saved them and used them as an investment further down the line.
Marc

[Emaresee]

The first and only boxes I have ever bought were a couple of cabinets of Flor de Cano Short Churchills. They were wonderful cigars to smoke but perhaps I should have saved them and used them as an investment further down the line.
Marc

classy choice

[Alexw33]

Some interesting stories.

Mine was some Epi 1’s, Trinidad Reyes, Fonseca No1’s and Bolivar Gold Medals back in 2011/12ish.

The Bolis still sit in my humidor untouched, I’ve never had the heart to break into them.

[glezga]

my 1st, 2nd and 3rd boxes were gifts. 50 king edwards in the 90s, 10 RJ no 3s and 10 monte 3s for xmas 16 and 17

i bought my 1st box pretty recently fonseca delicias 25s ... started with mild cos it was my own money lol and had only bough singles until then.

[glezga]

Monte no2... the gateway drug to a massive CAD problem!!!

im only now getting ha_banos CAD signature now! thought he was into autocad or something lol

[trying]

I'm sure it's been done before .. but I couldn't find the thread. A few of us were chatting the other day and the topic of your first box purchase came up.

What did you open your box purchase account with?

Mine was a box of Partagas P2 that was part of a bundle put together by a tobacconist in Exeter back in the days when mail order meant mail order! I had a flyer through the post offering up marqua branded humidors with a box or two of appropriate sticks to fill them. I chose a black lacquered Partagas branded humi with a box of P2. It was supposed to also have a box of D4.... but I got him to do the deal with only half a box! I still have some of the P2's (from '08 i think)... the D4's ('06)were I thought all gone but recently found 2 at the bottom of the humi!

My first box purchase was a box of 25 Punch Punch and a box of 25 RyJ Exhibition No.3

[Stevieboy]

My first box was Punch: Punch Punch.
A 2001 box with lots of draw problems....grrrr

[Hookmaker]

monte 2 seems to have been a popular choice as a first box from the chat I was in... and here too..

Monte no2... the gateway drug to a massive CAD problem!!!

Yeah, but rightly so - the most sold Cuban I believe.


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[Stevieboy]

Yeah, but rightly so - the most sold Cuban I believe.


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Nah... The Monte 4 was always more popular and was apparently the most sold CC until recently when the D4 overtook it.... It Cigar Aficionado is to be believed

[franco]

Mag 48 was my first full and proper box. Spent a good few years buying singles then it really bit once I had space for a whole box... Laughable now looking at the two scuba boxes stuffed full

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[sheppsea]

I got two boxes together - a box of Fonseca KDT Cadetes and a box of HdM Petit Robustos

The next day I then bought a box of Monte 2s (which is what I wanted in the first place but the first shop didn't have a 10 box)

[Simon Bolivar]

Nah... The Monte 4 was always more popular and was apparently the most sold CC until recently when the D4 overtook it.... It Cigar Aficionado is to be believed

Yes Stevie, I believe this is true. The biggest seller was the Monte No4 for yrs, mostly by being the most available & not being too strong or spicy, it appealed to the interested & newbies alike. How many of us had a No4 as our first Cuban? I am one, know there are many more. In the good ol' days restaurants & hotels bars would have them in a small humi, which they would pass around after a meal. Every B&M outlet had them & they were a reasonable quality.
If you follow the top selling list on the Gesto's website over the last 10yrs, Party D4 took over the top spot & is still there I believe. I used to really enjoy the Monte No4's in my early days, went off them when I discovered other brands & vitolas with more flav & more progression when smoked. Strangely, despite counting myself Party fan the series D No4 has never floated my boat. As for the Monte no2, yes a true classic & deserves to hold it's place as one of the great mid priced, mid sized vitolas, perhaps surprisingly I have only ever brought a single box of 10 that's in my coolidor right now, bought several years ago & ready for smoking now; just got a few singles to smoke first.