Re: Cigar Thread
A few things to update this thread:
Casa Fuente in the forum shops- highly reccomend it. Not only can you find a normal stick that's only marked up a little bit (cigars on the strip are often twice your normal price), they also have a great cigar that's a house blend that you can only get there. It's about $20/stick but it blows away any other $20 stick you'll find in vegas imo. They also have some high end stuff, including the opus-x.
I love the way the opus-x tastes. It has a lot of bite and a great draw, spicy and hot. But it will knock you on your ass. I cant even finish the sort of rothschild-torpedo they have.
I bought one of the forbidden sticks last time i was there. At $75/stick it's not 4x better than a $20 stick, but it was exceptional. Very, very smooth, almost like tasting a handful of hot and fresh roasted peanuts/almonds. Great cigar.
My daily smoke has become the punch rare corojo rothschild. I love these cigars b/c i can finish one w/o having a total mind [censored].
I recently ordered some cubans from a very reputable swiss dealer and will post a report when i receive them. included in the order was a cohiba robusto, montecristo #1 (iirc), partagas, punch-punch, and a few other random-ish picks.
Still, for $5/stick, i dont know if i'll find something better than a punch rare corojo [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
-Tex
edited to add: if you're out on the strip looking for a cigar, buy one from one of the girls at cesars who walk around w/ cigarettes, cigars, roses, etc. You can find a cohiba toro for less than $25 (a good price for the stick) and some ashtons for about $20. Any other place will charge you at least that much for a far inferior stick.
Also, someone needs to go pick up one of the pre-embargo 1932 cubans from the cigar shop at cesars that's right where appian way meets the casino floor. They're $400/stick, covered in plume, and apparently ivey and rene angelil and antoine walker are the only ones to buy one. I know some pre-embargo cubans get sold at sothebys and are likely documented as being stored in good conditions and what not, so i'd think these would be as well. But [censored], $400/stick!!!
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