As we all know, merely being made of tobacco, round-ish and actually being able to light it on fire gets a cigar an 85....
Oooooo, very true. I see Gurkhas getting 90-something's from them.... These must really be bad :/
Its getting sad and hard to decipher, I think the Feral Pig got a 87 and one of the Gurkha Cellar Reserve sizes (pretty much all of them copy the pig format) got a 90 or 91. Unfortunately for B&M owners and employees, many customers still shop according to CA.
Bingo +1; people can buy the 90+ rated gurkhas all day, I don't mind getting stuck with the lower rated feral pigs and such... taking one for the team :innocent:
Its interesting in my area then, we seem to have a good following when it comes to small batch cigars or just hard to find ones. Whether the consumers know what they're really buying or not is another question.
I actually enjoyed those Cellar Reserves. Gurkhas not all crap.
I still have a Prensado Churchill in my humidor. Right before I joined this crazy place I started reading CA because I wanted to expand my cigar choices beyond the Onyx Reserve I usually smoked. So one of the first issues I read was the top cigars of the year issue. So I immediately went out and bought me some Prensados. I remember thinking, well, this is ok, but is this really the best cigar of the year? So I tried a couple more, and they were the same. So I started searching for more information on want real hardcore cigar smokers smoked. And that led me here...and that is why there is still a Prensado in the humidor. I figure that I will just leave it there for another few years and then give it a try. And I have traded CA for CP and Halfwheel. And man am I enjoying cigars so much more now that I have found BOTL. Of course my wife now thinks I'm crazy...but hey, wadda ya gonna do?
