saturday 25th december 2010

[senor_robusto]

evening all,
merry christmas everybody!!! been a great day here in belfast, great dinner at my parents house!!! also been a great day for cigars and booze!!! opened up a bottle of heidseck blue top champagne (?14 in tescos, surprised at how nice it was), been at it all day!!! started with a bolivar corona junior (2007) after a light lunch, moved on to a cohiba siglo II, had dinner, then fired up an h upmann sir winston (2008) after dinner(thanks a million matt for sorting me out with these)!!! plenty of champagne and a couple of hine's rare champagne cognac and a double espresso!!! reckon once i phone the missus (she's staying with her folks with my son), i'm gonna retire for the evening!!!

all in all, a great, relaxing day (feel shit i'm not up with the missus & child, but it can't be helped!!! she's 50 miles away & i'm back to work on monday at 6am, can't risk it with the weather)!!!

take care all,

alex

[Fat1]

Just about to spark up a Siglo 1. Got a JL2 for later.

A nice bottle of Glenlivet 12 yr old and muchos beer and wine to wash them down.

Come on England!!!!!

[Simon Bolivar]

Had a wonderful Christmas Day & hope you did too. Started with a ERDM DT from 1990 (so was actually growing in the 80's), matched perfectly with the Champange.
Later after a vension main course, R&J Tubos No2 from 60's, an excellent smoke as all ready documented by previous smokers. I prefer the flav profile of the 70's Monte's I have had but then I prefer 5yo Montes to R&J's as well. It was certianly the best R&J I have had. Many thanks to C.A. for letting these go for a song

Final smoke, was running out of time, snow started falling again & we were going to have to leave to avoid getting stuck at our friends house, so I had the Cohiba Panatela from Avelino Lara day's in charge at the el Laguito factory (old label), this was pretty amazing 35mins. I know many dismiss this small smoke, & it's certianly expensive but aging plus the old arguement about the question whether they used better quality tobacco in earlier stix meant this was a wonder, paired with Killibeggan Whiskey, it held it's own; many thanks to Paul Sax who swapped this beaut back in the summer
No expected smoking until next appt at Boisdales 5th Jan as in England for NY & I won't be wasting my carefully aged smokes in sub zero temps.

[Deano]

Great day, had a BHK54 and Trini 2010 LE (from Arf). Top stuff.

[whisky77]

Not enough drink.

Ate too much, did not drink enough and settled for the Bolivar Simones, JL No2 and JLPC. Good day allround.