Friday 29th March 2013

[daniel2001]

Partagas Lusitanias from 1999. Have never smoked one with this many years on it before. Starting off with mild espresso. Construction is spot on.

[peanutpete]

H upmann mag46 sitting inthe south west of France in the garden in a tee shirt, man it feels good not to have about five layersof clothes on

[Ethem]

Stopped by tomtom cigars and picked up a Ramon Allones Petit Belicoso 2012 UK RE. it's smoking very well indeed.

[Dave K]

JL#1 ...bought these as singles so no idea on box code, but tightish draw followed by comedy explosion halfway

Back on track, but rather be smoking Ethems RA Petit Belicosos right now! Reckon these are far more unpredictable than the #2!

[Ethem]

And I'd rather be sitting in the south west of France lol. But on my way to Devon the traffic news reminded me why we hadn't done so. A 3 hour queue to the eurotunnel this afternoon.

[smokin_e2011]

An 05 ERdM Lunch Club, 8 years has really made this a superb little cigar indeed...

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[Simon-JG-hr]

As seems to be an all too regular occurrence for me, I have been without cigars for too long now! (The little get together at No10 before Christmas was my last one I think! )

Until this evening... Got the place to myself for a few days, so don't have to contemplate braving the Baltic conditions outside... Put on a Tony Bennett CD, poured a glass of Scotch and lit up a Montecristo No2. Heaven. This is a cigar which Simon kindly gifted me back when Thatcher was still PM... Thank you very much kind sir, it tasted wonderful! And, as requested all that time ago, I'll write up a review of my thoughts. As a couple of guys know, I have an embarrassing admission to make on this one - it was my first Monte No2 ever. I think I'll have to try a few more now.

[peanutpete]

And I'd rather be sitting in the south west of France lol. But on my way to Devon the traffic news reminded me why we hadn't done so. A 3 hour queue to the eurotunnel this afternoon.

I took the plane, finished the night of with a boli petit corona,the diffrence to the last one i had about six months ago from this box was amazing, six months ago they were unsmokerble now thou a fantastic smoke

[smokin_e2011]

As seems to be an all too regular occurrence for me, I have been without cigars for too long now! (The little get together at No10 before Christmas was my last one I think! )

Until this evening... Got the place to myself for a few days, so don't have to contemplate braving the Baltic conditions outside... Put on a Tony Bennett CD, poured a glass of Scotch and lit up a Montecristo No2. Heaven. This is a cigar which Simon kindly gifted me back when Thatcher was still PM... Thank you very much kind sir, it tasted wonderful! And, as requested all that time ago, I'll write up a review of my thoughts. As a couple of guys know, I have an embarrassing admission to make on this one - it was my first Monte No2 ever. I think I'll have to try a few more now.

Nothing to be embarrassed about pal, now you can say you smoked one of the best cigars coming out of Cuba....

And then you can tell em' it's also, Smokin's favourite....

[Simon Bolivar]

Wow! I was begining to think you'd never get around to that stick! So glad that you found the perfect stick & it didn't let you down (that really would have been a big disappointment), looking fwd to your review.

[Simon-JG-hr]

Haha, it has certainly taken me longer than I woud have liked to find the perfect moment for it. Thank you once again Simon, it was very kind of you, and I was really rather pleasantly surprised (apart from the PE and Sublimes I've generally been a bit disappointed by Montecristos). I shall be writing up the review the evening.