favorite all time cigar

[CoventryCat86]

Still haven't had an ISOM since I got "serious" about cigars a few years ago. But being the simple man I am (read: cheap), I always look forward to a Toranos Exodus Gold and 1916 Cameroon. Relatively inexpensive and great tastes.

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I pretty much only smoke snobby cigars :laugh: but I love those Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 (sometimes called "Gold"). They are a great cigar for less than $4.00.

 

[BobbyRitz]

Still haven't had an ISOM since I got "serious" about cigars a few years ago. But being the simple man I am (read: cheap), I always look forward to a Toranos Exodus Gold and 1916 Cameroon. Relatively inexpensive and great tastes.

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I pretty much only smoke snobby cigars :laugh: but I love those Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 (sometimes called "Gold"). They are a great cigar for less than $4.00.

The Exodus 1959 torpedo was fifth on CA's top 25 list, so it must be one of the best smokes in the world!!! :laugh:

In full disclosure, I bought a box two months ago. I'd like to see how they smoke after a few years.

 

[CoventryCat86]

In full disclosure, I bought a box two months ago. I'd like to see how they smoke after a few years.

Well, I'll never know, I smoke them way too fast. :laugh: Be sure to let us know if you have any luck being more patient than me.

 

[Saxjazzman]

Like so many of the replies, this is a hard one. I think I am an emoticigar smoker. Besides food, drink, at times it depends how I feel. Some cigars that are great don't smoke as great if the mood is not right. Then there are the cigars I love to smoke because I just want to smell them burn, like RP Sungrown. I do like some ISOM like MC or RJ, but LFD Double Ligero 700 brings me to heaven after a hard day. What has been said before about Tatuaje or Anejo is a ditto.

 

[mostholycerebus]

Trinidad Fundadores.

 

[BobbyRitz]

Like so many of the replies, this is a hard one. I think I am an emoticigar smoker. Besides food, drink, at times it depends how I feel. Some cigars that are great don't smoke as great if the mood is not right. Then there are the cigars I love to smoke because I just want to smell them burn, like RP Sungrown. I do like some ISOM like MC or RJ, but LFD Double Ligero 700 brings me to heaven after a hard day. What has been said before about Tatuaje or Anejo is a ditto.

Did you just create a word??? :laugh:

 

[Smoking Mex]

ISOM hands down Monte #2.
Non ISOM is the Opus PerfeXcion #2 (of course). :laugh:

 

[ORVW]

So far, mine is a Opus robusto, love the taste, construction, strength. 2nd right now is DC Max robusto, but still have 1926 Padron #2 maddie to smoke, as well as a GOF and Forbidden X. No experience w/ the top shelf isoms, but i'm sure they'd be in the top 5 based on some of the few isoms i've smoked

My top 5 (edit 6) (in no particular order):


1. Any Hemingway
2. Any AF 1964/1926
3. Any Oliva Series "G"
4. Any CAO Sapronos
5. Any CAO MX2
6. LGC Series R No 5 Natural

So that is really my what? Top 20 or 25 :laugh: :laugh:

 

[nfulton]

Tough to narrow it but I would have to say Anejo #49 for a NC cigar. Hands down the Partagas 898 would win the Cuban catagory.

 

[BobbyRitz]

In full disclosure, I bought a box two months ago. I'd like to see how they smoke after a few years.

Well, I'll never know, I smoke them way too fast. :laugh: Be sure to let us know if you have any luck being more patient than me.

I'm trying, Bill, I'm trying! :laugh:

 

[Capt Redbeard]

For me I'd have to say it was my very first cigar ever, which just so happened to be a Monte #2 this past summer. I dont know if it was just because it was my first real cigar or since it was an ISOM. But that first smoke was awesome, the taste and the aroma, it was perfect. As for the few NC's I've smoked since, I'd have to say the Padron 64.

 

[seadub]

WOW :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

That's an interesting question and reading through the responses it's pretty obvious we've all got opinions

I've had some great smokes and I think a lot of what makes them so damn good is the event that lead up to me lighting them in the first place (although I'd be completely devoid of any sense of taste if I couldn't distinguish tannic taste from creamy or spice from flat). But I think my favorite smokes have been:

1. CoRo I smoked after dinner when I got engaged to my wife in Paris in '04.
2. Opus X Lancero I smoked after running in the July 4th 10k last year.
3. Taboada Sublime handed to me by Senor Taboada on my first visit to TJ last summer (and this one gave me the worst ass-kicking I ever got from a cigar... man, it was strong)
4. Punch Rare Corojo Rothschild before I went into the Rose Bowl to watch Texas stomp USC (Vince Young was on fire)
5. Monte Edmundo I had a bunch of these and shared one with Gary one night on a trip back east... incredible smoke.

There's a bunch more others that I think about when I'm having a cigar. They're sort of like benchmarks for me to the cigar I'm enjoying at the moment. I remember back to what I tasted, what I liked (and didn't like), construction, smoke volume, color, flavour, etc... Unfortunately some cigars do stand out because they were awful, but only a few of those have crossed my path. My first PAN was horrible, but my second was delicious, for example.

The other side of the coin are the cigars that I have resting right now that I'm expecting to be the best ever. Of course it's tough to gauge exactly when some of the singles are going to be in their prime (or when I am for that matter), but at least in other cases I have boxes from which to sample to determine when those 'gars are smoking their best.

Great question and some equally fantastic answers. Thanks.