Cabinet Investment

Just found out what a saucer is for ... holding your cigar while you sip your coffee and vice versa!

Anyways, I ordered a box of these Por Larranaga Petit Coronas about a month ago for the club. They only come in cabinets of 50, which actually makes them a bit cheaper per cigar and also ideal for aging. Ideal as in every 6 months you have one to check how they are going. Also this particular cigar is well known to be at its peak after 3-5 years so it's a "long term investment" and precisely the type of thing that the club helps us with (thank goodness for all the low interest credit card deals at mo;-). Now once i find out a way of getting them here (any overseas trips let me know!!!) we can taste and see!

p.s. next batch will be out after next (Easter) weekend.

Jan-Feb Batch out

He he sent out yesterday just in time. Scott and Matt, come and get it.

With some variation for everyone, this is roughly the batch, plenty of new ones:

• Arturo Fuente - Exquisitos (maduro): coffee break

• Liga Undercrown - Robusto: the cheaper complementary cousin of the hard-to-find Liga Privada T52 we had a year or so ago, in that it uses the leaves that aren't used in the T52 (kind of). Medium strength, sweetish cocoa, and satisfying. Weekend coffee break or whenever. [Mexican Otapan Negro Último Corte wrapper,  Brazilian Mata Fina and Nicaraguan longfillers, T52 Connecticut stalk cut & cured Habano binder. They claim that the wrapper harvest is delayed by over 4 weeks, resulting in a "higher natural sugar content and a richer, creamier flavor"] 

• Arturo Fuente Hemingway - Work of Art (maduro): we have had plenty of smaller Short Story Hemingways but with a Cameroon wrapper. This has a Connecticut broadleaf maduro wrapper, and it's still a perfecto shape, but 60 ring gauge at its fattest!

• Hoyo de Monterrey - Le Hoyo du Dauphin: we have had Hoyos in demi tasse (du Maire) and corona gorda (Epicure no.1) vitolas, but not in laguito no.2 (152mm x 38rg - long skinnies like the Monte Especiales no.2s we've had). This was a specially selected box. Medium bodied smoke for an occasion where you can be contemplative and puff slowly (the secret to smoking long skinnies lest they overheat). Sep'11 box.

• Partagas Serie P no.2: Partagas' bigfulla piramide and also a box selected for its quality. Generally a milder blend than the Serie D no.4 (robusto) or the Short. Jun'11 box.

Joel can try this with his NZ tobacco plant:

TOBACCO FOR DINNER