Howdy All:
I hope you are great.
I added this to the Thanksgiving thread in the main forum but thought it might be appropriate to have it here on its own.
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I hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving weekend.
I have so much to be thankful this year with my family, my friends, my health, my hounds, my job and such. I am also thankful to the new hobby I picked up this year that is cigar smoking.
I decided to celebrate that by smoking a Montecristo Edicion Limitada 2005. I picked this smoke up from a cigar shop in Madrid Spain a couple of months ago. The shop was-
Cava de Puros Baquillo located at Calle Barquillo, 22. This was an ok shop with a small walk in humidor I went in and asked what they had for limited or special edition cigars and these were all they had. The cost of the sticks were 10 euros each and I bought five of them. If you get a chance to go to Madrid I would recommend Cava de Magallanes located at Calle Magallanes, 16. This shop is next to a regular corner market kind of shop, I arrived after they had closed one night and they opened up just for me and I was able to go with the owner into a large walk in humidor where he helped me pick several different types of special edition cigars.
Ok, onto the review and I have never done one of these so bare with me if it is not awesome.
It was a beautiful day today in Michigan, about 45 degrees Fahrenheit or about 7 Celsius. I got myself a coat, sweatshirt and a hat to keep warm and headed out.
This is what I started with-
After taking quite a bit of time to get my fire going I lit up my smoke at about 1:55pm. You can see that this was a beautiful long smoke with a nice wrapper although I am not sure why the limited edition label was not printed so nicely. My son joined me and we talked for the first 3rd of the cigar about father son type things and I enjoyed his company, he is my younger son at 15 and even took a couple of photos for me. The rest of the smoke was enjoyed with the local radio station and occasional squirrel rustling in the trees.
The cigar started off beautifully with a taste of Fall to me probably because of the day, it had hints of hay and grass. The first third smoked fairly quick and I was starting the 2nd third by about 2:15pm
Coming into the 2nd third of the cigar it slowed down on the burn and had a fuller taste with hints of chocolate and cocoa.
Got into the last 3rd at about 2:40pm and was onto my second Bells Winter White ale, a fine Michigan crafted beer if you get a chance- http://www.bellsbeer.com/ . At about this point the cigar got naked with the labels hiding away in my pocket to be stashed with the rest, someday I will make something with them.
I was at the point here of burning my fingers but did not want to stop, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable smoke and ended at about 3:15 with great satisfaction. My fire was done and my time was perfect. If you get the chance to have one of these I would highly recommend it.
Best regards, tony
I hope you are great.
I added this to the Thanksgiving thread in the main forum but thought it might be appropriate to have it here on its own.
---------------------------------------------------
I hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving weekend.
I have so much to be thankful this year with my family, my friends, my health, my hounds, my job and such. I am also thankful to the new hobby I picked up this year that is cigar smoking.
I decided to celebrate that by smoking a Montecristo Edicion Limitada 2005. I picked this smoke up from a cigar shop in Madrid Spain a couple of months ago. The shop was-
Cava de Puros Baquillo located at Calle Barquillo, 22. This was an ok shop with a small walk in humidor I went in and asked what they had for limited or special edition cigars and these were all they had. The cost of the sticks were 10 euros each and I bought five of them. If you get a chance to go to Madrid I would recommend Cava de Magallanes located at Calle Magallanes, 16. This shop is next to a regular corner market kind of shop, I arrived after they had closed one night and they opened up just for me and I was able to go with the owner into a large walk in humidor where he helped me pick several different types of special edition cigars.
Ok, onto the review and I have never done one of these so bare with me if it is not awesome.
It was a beautiful day today in Michigan, about 45 degrees Fahrenheit or about 7 Celsius. I got myself a coat, sweatshirt and a hat to keep warm and headed out.
This is what I started with-
After taking quite a bit of time to get my fire going I lit up my smoke at about 1:55pm. You can see that this was a beautiful long smoke with a nice wrapper although I am not sure why the limited edition label was not printed so nicely. My son joined me and we talked for the first 3rd of the cigar about father son type things and I enjoyed his company, he is my younger son at 15 and even took a couple of photos for me. The rest of the smoke was enjoyed with the local radio station and occasional squirrel rustling in the trees.
The cigar started off beautifully with a taste of Fall to me probably because of the day, it had hints of hay and grass. The first third smoked fairly quick and I was starting the 2nd third by about 2:15pm
Coming into the 2nd third of the cigar it slowed down on the burn and had a fuller taste with hints of chocolate and cocoa.
Got into the last 3rd at about 2:40pm and was onto my second Bells Winter White ale, a fine Michigan crafted beer if you get a chance- http://www.bellsbeer.com/ . At about this point the cigar got naked with the labels hiding away in my pocket to be stashed with the rest, someday I will make something with them.
I was at the point here of burning my fingers but did not want to stop, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable smoke and ended at about 3:15 with great satisfaction. My fire was done and my time was perfect. If you get the chance to have one of these I would highly recommend it.
Best regards, tony
