Monday 4th May 2020

[Hookmaker]

I'm not a fan of Trinidad as a brand but these Esmereldas really appealed to me. I made a mistake last week and bought one of @Hookmaker's boxes, the mistake was splitting it with Greg, this was one of the best Cubans I've smoked in recent years! Should have kept them all.

Glad you like them PeeJay, - although you raped it by smoking it before it'd had time to rest and be EVEN better

[Vitola]

I'm not a fan of Trinidad as a brand but these Esmereldas really appealed to me. I made a mistake last week and bought one of @Hookmaker's boxes, the mistake was splitting it with Greg, this was one of the best Cubans I've smoked in recent years! Should have kept them all.


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The Esmerelda is really good John, and so are the other two Media Luna and Topes. Trinidad have hit the mark with these 2019 releases

[Good Stick]

American Classic blend, this is a lovely smoke.
Great draw, cocoa and cream!


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[Simon Bolivar]

H. Upmann Half Corona in the sun.... I much preferred this to the El Rey del Mundo Demi Tasse.... I had a drink this time

Lesson learned, always have a drink with a smoke, a cigar is too dry without one!?

[grumpybaldy]

Yo @grumpybaldy! What is this one?

It's a Cuban 'Custom Roll', ie rolled by hand by one the elite named cigar rollers in Havana Google them). [MENTION=13402615]PeeJay[/MENTION] is the expert on these - knows all the names and has sampled many; I think this one was from him, but there were a couple I didn't label when I got them (sorry, John if it was yours - the shaggy foot? Seems to have found a new fan anyway).

[geoffbot]

It's a Cuban 'Custom Roll', ie rolled by hand by one the elite named cigar rollers in Havana Google them). [MENTION=13402615]PeeJay[/MENTION] is the expert on these - knows all the names and has sampled many; I think this one was from him, but there were a couple I didn't label when I got them (sorry, John if it was yours - the shaggy foot? Seems to have found a new fan anyway).

Thanks!

[Tomm783]

It's a Cuban 'Custom Roll', ie rolled by hand by one the elite named cigar rollers in Havana Google them). [MENTION=13402615]PeeJay[/MENTION] is the expert on these - knows all the names and has sampled many; I think this one was from him, but there were a couple I didn't label when I got them (sorry, John if it was yours - the shaggy foot? Seems to have found a new fan anyway).

Alex Glez is a high probability as he tends to have a little more ?creative license? when it comes to vitolas. PeeJay and I are suckers for custom rolls and I have some shaggy foot?s by Alex although not that particular vitola. La China and Juanita have shaggy foot Robustos etc and Reynaldo does a shaggy foot torpedo.

A whole new world of discovery!


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[simwells]

JohnnyO sources a lot of shaggy footers too but I don?t think they?re from any of the rollers we know by name


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