Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over the next few weekends BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.
I was able to meet him in Seattle, probably the same tour you went to that he was doing. My brother and I first started out trying the Clasico from B&A. We really liked them and went in on a box together. He threw in like 16 free more cigars on top of the box we got, no joke. I smoked one of the Entubars and I was surprised how well it was. I kind of looked at the little foot sticking out being a bit of a gimmick thing too, but it was pretty good.I was fortunate to be in Portland (met up with some stand up BOTLs) when there was a B&A event going on. One of the cigars was the Entubar. I talked to Al Argenti for a bit and he showed himself to be a really nice guy that loves what he does. I came home with a few of his cigars and lit up the Entubar. I have to admit that I didn't have high expectations since there is a certain size, flavor profile that I tend to stick to. I was pretty surprised. It was a pretty good cigar and some what (emphasis on some) reminded me of Drew's T52.
Overall, low expectations...surprised me, pretty good smoke, and will smoke again once in awhile.
EDIT: Turns out, Al uses Stalk Cut as well.