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ANEJORE
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Today was a great day down in TJ. Smoked an H.Upmann #2 while I rolled down there. Found the La Casa de Habana pretty easy. The guys there were real friendly. I told them that I came down to see the famous roller. The guys there were familiar with CP and CW. I was immediatly handed a freshly rolled oversized Torpedo. What a sales pitch this was! The cigar was absolutely fantastic, strong and complex. :thumbs: It had a beautiful dark oily wrapper that was so silky. After talking Cuban cigars with them for a while I inquired about the price of a bundle. Holy $hit!! :0 Thier answer was $32 per cigar with no bundle discount. I needed some time to think. :whistling: Meanwhile the store owner asked if I wanted to go see his warehouse. Yep! 
He took me over there and I took some pics. I will post those on another thread.
After thinking long and hard about this purchase I figured **** it! I'll only live once! So I agreed to buy a bundle. I watched most of them get rolled. The next cigar I was handed as a comparison was a VR Farm Rolled. It did not even compare to the Taboado. After I finished that one I was instantly handed another "special blend" cigar by Taboado himself, he even handed me his lighter. Wow! What a killer smoke! He included about 10 of those "special" ones in my bundle. From what I could understand it was an "old" blend that he used.
Here is the inside of the store.
Here is Taboado rolling the blended leaf in the binder before he puts it into the mold.
Here are the molds in his press.
Here he is rolling on the wrapper.
Finished cigars. Both Torpedos and Robusto Extras.
The leaf set out in the humi for the days rolling.
The mucho boxes of leaf from Cuba for the next months worth of rolling. This was his 1st day of rolling for the month that he will be there.
Finally me getting my very expensive a$$ bundle from the man himself.
All in all a great day! I am finishing it off with one of his Robusto Extras. Ya, I bought a few of those too. Smoked one on the drive home too. They are absolutely out of this world too! :thumbs:
I would have to say that this guys smokes are some of the best, if not the best, smokes I have ever tried. :thumbs:
He took me over there and I took some pics. I will post those on another thread.After thinking long and hard about this purchase I figured **** it! I'll only live once! So I agreed to buy a bundle. I watched most of them get rolled. The next cigar I was handed as a comparison was a VR Farm Rolled. It did not even compare to the Taboado. After I finished that one I was instantly handed another "special blend" cigar by Taboado himself, he even handed me his lighter. Wow! What a killer smoke! He included about 10 of those "special" ones in my bundle. From what I could understand it was an "old" blend that he used.
Here is the inside of the store.
Here is Taboado rolling the blended leaf in the binder before he puts it into the mold.
Here are the molds in his press.
Here he is rolling on the wrapper.
Finished cigars. Both Torpedos and Robusto Extras.
The leaf set out in the humi for the days rolling.
The mucho boxes of leaf from Cuba for the next months worth of rolling. This was his 1st day of rolling for the month that he will be there.
Finally me getting my very expensive a$$ bundle from the man himself.
All in all a great day! I am finishing it off with one of his Robusto Extras. Ya, I bought a few of those too. Smoked one on the drive home too.
They are absolutely out of this world too! :thumbs:I would have to say that this guys smokes are some of the best, if not the best, smokes I have ever tried. :thumbs:
Enjoy those cigars. :thumbs:
now thats how you buy isoms! straight from the man 
