Gregs crowning Glory - a Punch double Corona
Friday, December 26, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
The T Rex approach to cigar cutting
When I told Matt to bite the end off his cigar, I wasn't expecting half of it to get torn off with a grunt. "Nibble on a nipple... Not chomp off a chunk" once said a wise Chinese sage. Greg adds "a breast without a nipple is pointless!"
The Punch Punch batch
The next batch has been out for a while and the novelty is in the Punch.
If you've been a heretic long enough, you have had the now-discontinued Punch Royal Selection no.12 (a small one), a massive Punch Double Corona, and now it is time for the Punch Punch. Why the repetition, you may ask? It was named in Cuba, so who knows... a bored marketing director? the one-two combo of the cigar world?
The good news is that this Corona Gorda (46rg x 14.3cm) is really good straight out of the box (2013), mild and with a lovely and quite distinctive creamy cloves flavour. I had it with a light whisky on a hot day but could happily have smoked it right the way through without a drink. Hopefully it will keep growing and not recede with age... great stuff.
- Some Pot luck cigars to finish off boxes and...
- H Upmann Magnum 48 EL 2009: they are earthy with a bit of cocoa/coffee grinds and the Upmann woods in the back ground and need to be smoked now before they run out of flavour
- H Upmann Magnum 46: aging well with more savouriness (dixit Scott)
- Bolivar Petit Corona: well known but I'd like to hear your thoughts as I've yet to have one from this new box.
- Punch Punch
If you've been a heretic long enough, you have had the now-discontinued Punch Royal Selection no.12 (a small one), a massive Punch Double Corona, and now it is time for the Punch Punch. Why the repetition, you may ask? It was named in Cuba, so who knows... a bored marketing director? the one-two combo of the cigar world?
The good news is that this Corona Gorda (46rg x 14.3cm) is really good straight out of the box (2013), mild and with a lovely and quite distinctive creamy cloves flavour. I had it with a light whisky on a hot day but could happily have smoked it right the way through without a drink. Hopefully it will keep growing and not recede with age... great stuff.
- Some Pot luck cigars to finish off boxes and...
- H Upmann Magnum 48 EL 2009: they are earthy with a bit of cocoa/coffee grinds and the Upmann woods in the back ground and need to be smoked now before they run out of flavour
- H Upmann Magnum 46: aging well with more savouriness (dixit Scott)
- Bolivar Petit Corona: well known but I'd like to hear your thoughts as I've yet to have one from this new box.
- Punch Punch
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