Seeking a balance between price and quality: a student's question.
Okay, so first, since I'm pretty much a new member, I should probably explain my situation: I'm a 20 year old college student located on Long Island (though I'm originally from Boston, and even more originally from Texas, but all that is sort of irrelevant.) I've been sort of clicking around your forums today, and I really like what you've all built up around here. I had my first cigar when the Red Sox won the world seriestwo years ago with some of my fellow displaced Bostonians. It was a Romeo y Julieta
Anniversario Robusto that my father had given me, and it was superb. It was a fantastic night that was punctuated by the discovery of something very nice.
Fast forward to now, where a few friends and I have created something known as The Finer Things club, which focuses on smoking cigars on my lunch break from work every wednesday. Since then, I've been sort of searching for some quality smokes that can fit my student budget. Any recommendations?
Just last weekend, I purchased the A. Fernandez Signature weekend blitz deal, and found that to be remarkably smooth. I think my favorite cigar up until this point was a Comacho Corojo, which I got as a recomendation from the owner of the cigar shop I frequent.
Fast forward to now, where a few friends and I have created something known as The Finer Things club, which focuses on smoking cigars on my lunch break from work every wednesday. Since then, I've been sort of searching for some quality smokes that can fit my student budget. Any recommendations?
Just last weekend, I purchased the A. Fernandez Signature weekend blitz deal, and found that to be remarkably smooth. I think my favorite cigar up until this point was a Comacho Corojo, which I got as a recomendation from the owner of the cigar shop I frequent.
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Early on in my cigar-smoking career, I sort of fell into a flash-trap, where I'd get cigars that looked cool. This is what lead me to CAO, since they have some pretty slick adverts and really pull off a classy look. The only one I've liked so far is the CAO Mx2, which had, oddly, a great first 2/3, but the last part just kind of burned my mouth. CAO seems to use great wrappers poorly.
My dad speaks really highly of RP, and I've always been interested in those. So I'll pick one up, if I can find some more details about the Vintage 90.
As an aside, thank you all for responding so quickly. I was a little worried, I must admit, that I'd get some sort of age-related flak; I'm really glad to see this isn't the case.
So if there really are this many pro's for the Vegas, I'll take this route as well. Another question I have is the humidor; currently I'm using a romeo y julieta cigar box I had lying around my house. It's a really slick box, varnished on the outside, and it smells like it's made of cedar. I took a knife to the framework to make it snap closed, and have a little black humidifier thing on the top, which actually does a pretty good job. I think I need to upgrade to a 100 count, any leads as to where I could do this?
Thanks BBC, I actually have a Punch Rare Corojo waiting to be smoked; I'll give that one a try next time I get a chance, possibly tonight after I go to MOMA.
Seems I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll go ahead and throw in my two cents. 5 Vegas: In my opinion, probably the best value on the market considering how good the cigars are, I haven't had one yet that I didn't like. About the Triple Maduro, I recommend the robusto smoked very, very slowly, this is a cigar that can and will punish you for smoking it too fast...I found it be a fairly full bodied smoke. The Ccom house blends are pretty awesome, I really like the Cameroon, Brazilian and Cuban labels, the Blue was pretty good too.
Some other cigars I really like for a decent price: Padilla Obsidian, I've had them for as low as $2 a stick on auction. La Gloria Cubana wavell is also a cigar I really like that can be had for a reasonable price. La Herencia Cubana is another great cigar at a pretty decent price. As far as Rocky Patel cigars go, several of the higher end blends can be had as segundos for a cheap price at the same good quality, any defects are purely cosmetic. Speaking of seconds, the Perdomo ESV '91 second is a great cigar and a very good price, like $3 a cigar at the bundle price, a personal favorite of mine.
Ok, I'm going to stop now, I'd end up filling the page otherwise. There are so many good cigars out there to be had for a decent price, there is really no need anymore to spend top dollar for a quality smoke, the market has really driven quality into all price levels, crappy cigars just don't sell regardless of price.
I gotta 21 year old son Kas----we're not old we're experienced
I'm told I don't look my age although I'm not really all that old anyway (still in the 40's)
I couldn't have said it any better Joe
i didnt see anyone say SANCHO PANZA
Cheap and good.
Cusano P1
again wiht the 5 vegas
cigar.com house blends are good....
drew estates La Vieja habana
there are quite a few actually.
if you like MILD smokes try Free Cuba.
I couldnt help but think about this one. What you're currently using as a humidor probably isnt working that well, if you had a digital hygrometer in there youd likely see that its not working well at all, at least i really really doubt it is, especially with one of those little black humidifer sponge things that every humidor gives by default. I'll let someone else make suggestions on good humidor purchase sites, but i will say this...you might consider using a tupperdor for temporary storage (Storing your cigars in a tupperware container with humidifcation essentially). That...and...www.heartfeltindustries.com. Humidity beads can be found there, you will want these. Also, get yourself a digital hygrometer, the analogs have a weak sensitivity and have to be calibrated regularly.
as far as the Drew estates thing goes...
you smoked an acid. no wonder you were disappointed. it was infused. La Vieja Habanna is a non infused cigar. for its price point it had very good flavors.