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Posting from my hotel room in south Louisiana, I’m having a pretty good time. Upon our arrival Thursday and checking in, we pretty much visited my parents and basically caught up. Friday was the rehearsal, then the rehearsal dinner where I planned on introducing family members to the cigar smoking. Under a hard prejudice from my father, due to the fact his father had died from many years of smoking cigars (inhaling), my mission was to try to convince him, my brother and my nephew that smoking cigars is nothing like smoking cigarettes, as we all know. I went through the step-by-step process of how a cigar is made, the different types and countries, how to cut and how to smoke. The men seemed genuinely interested, while the women walked away in disgust…this was what I expected anyway. I gave my brother a Bacarrat, being a nice mild cigar with a little sweetness when drawing. My nephew I gave a Fire. I had an Opus X myself. As I demonstrated how to properly draw from the cigar and how to watch the cigar for even burn and tightness of the draw, each individual was hanging on my every word. We enjoyed each other’s company with nice cigars…I explained that this was what good cigars are all about.
After the wedding, I lit up a nice Hoyo Excalibur Epicure (one of my fav’s) and passed it between my brother and nephew between drinking beer and throwing the pig skin around. Following the wedding, we all came back to the hotel. Much to my surprise, my brother had an ISOM Cohiba Robusto that he had apparently gotten from Mexico the year before. He said he paid $5-6 for it. I explained how Cohiba was probably the most counterfeited cigar around and that is possible that this was in fact the same. Of course, we had to test it out. The ash was dark gray and I remember someone saying that this was a sign of a counterfeit. Cuban cigars, from what I understand, mostly have a nice white ash. Regardless, the cigar was not that bad. I told him he got an ok tasting cigar for what he payed for it, but be thankful he didn’t pay $15+ for it!
After many more beers and visiting, we ended up firing up a Plasencia and a CAO Black (I think). By then, well we all how our memories go after X number of beers.
We still have one more day here and I am enjoying my time. I believe my two relatives intently want to become regular cigar smokers seeing how much I enjoy them. Even thought I’ve only recently begun smoking cigars, they can see how cigars can bring strangers, family, men and women together to be enjoyed, or just to be smoked by yourself in a relaxing environment.
Thanks for letting me post my memoirs!
After the wedding, I lit up a nice Hoyo Excalibur Epicure (one of my fav’s) and passed it between my brother and nephew between drinking beer and throwing the pig skin around. Following the wedding, we all came back to the hotel. Much to my surprise, my brother had an ISOM Cohiba Robusto that he had apparently gotten from Mexico the year before. He said he paid $5-6 for it. I explained how Cohiba was probably the most counterfeited cigar around and that is possible that this was in fact the same. Of course, we had to test it out. The ash was dark gray and I remember someone saying that this was a sign of a counterfeit. Cuban cigars, from what I understand, mostly have a nice white ash. Regardless, the cigar was not that bad. I told him he got an ok tasting cigar for what he payed for it, but be thankful he didn’t pay $15+ for it!
After many more beers and visiting, we ended up firing up a Plasencia and a CAO Black (I think). By then, well we all how our memories go after X number of beers.
We still have one more day here and I am enjoying my time. I believe my two relatives intently want to become regular cigar smokers seeing how much I enjoy them. Even thought I’ve only recently begun smoking cigars, they can see how cigars can bring strangers, family, men and women together to be enjoyed, or just to be smoked by yourself in a relaxing environment.
Thanks for letting me post my memoirs!
