Icing on the cake...

Intrigued but the unlit fumes of this powerful scented cigar I had a half hour spare to light up. Pulling it out of the wrapper I was kicked in the nostrils with some massive vanilla bean fists. "go on try me" it said. Quick notes as follows















Looks

• sweet

Taste

• sweet

Draw

• sweet with some sugar on the lips

Lit

• cream and sweet and kind of what I was expecting

Never went out, even burn, nothing unpleasant and nothing spectacular. Overall, the most interesting thing was the sugary tip of tongue and lips moments at the beginning. This is not a review but just a quick post to say I tried the Greg cigar.

June-July - "Matariki transits Venus" Batch

The Seven Sisters rise again from the icy horizon while the goddess of Love cuts out the lord of Light... your manhood will be in the ascendant if you use both bed covers and the body of a loved one (or seven) to shield yourself from the coming winter.

As usual i'm making up for too many cigars last time with too few this time. It's winter so I chose a lucky trio that are basically the best of the best small cigars, all from top notch boxes, and one bigger newcomer.

• Vanilla flavoured non-cuban x2: Yes there are flavoured cigars out there - these jokers in the pack provided by Greg who is exploring el cheapo small coffee cigars. (don't keep them in the same humidor as other cigars without bagging them first). 


• Cohiba Maduro5 Secretos: a new box carefully selected for thin wrappers, which in this particular cigar makes for a richer sweeter smoke (last ones were ok but a bit bitter compared to previous examples). The King of luxury small cigars, very good for morning coffee or evening dessert cigar.


• Partagas Short: the short meaning of life. savour these, maybe after a heavily red wined meal. 'nuff said.


• Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story: another luxury short cigar from the top dominican manufacturer (but with a cameroon wrapper - check comments on this post).  Has a wonderful opening sweet christmas allspice once you fire up That Nipple - i could write poems about those nipples - that lasts for half the cigar before turning to minty white pepper. It marries well with a heavily sherried whisky like the Aberlour A'bunadh ... heavenly match as Matt and myself found out a few weeks ago. (and here's a vid review of the Hemingway Short Story from years ago)


• Juan Lopez Seleccion no.1: new cigar, new brand... this low production, lesser known cigar always delivers in the cedar department, and the right box with a little bit of age, delivers a characteristic biscuity vanilla sweetness (similar to the aged Hoyo Epicure no.1 as Scott pointed out recently when smoking them side by side). This jan'10 box is smoking damn well, really rich flavour... top tobacco, yum. Details to follow in a post.

No Angie, no wifi feed, no tub... but a grande plume of smoke aura.

Rafael Gonzales a la playa roja

Footage from our Rafael Gonzales experience in Red Beach the other day. Joel shares cigar impressions and there's some footage of the backyard and a bit of Leo in there too. Enjoy.

hereticomorphisms

when i saw those pics i could not help myself... now we are all one, brothers!!! ;-)

Cigar Legend of the Month - Angie

Real or Fakes? Angie advertises for a cigar website which is known for selling counterfeit cigars. [Notice that she wisely doesn't actually smoke the "montecristo" in the vid].

More importantly - what does that say about her own assets...? And will she be at the Heretics - Tamaki Makaurau Hot Tub Party on Wednesday night?

Rafael Gonzalez - Coronas Extra

Review in 2 parts because of a camera video format mess-up...  but a spankingly good cigar.