The most elegant cigar you've ever smoked?
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I have #5s on shipment, should be arriving next week. I'll order the #1's next!
For most elegant single cigar I've ever smoked would have to have been a pair of Davidoff Dom Perignons I had back in 89. A friend who was doing well in the financial world had a box of cigars which was at the time 10 years old and when I graduated with my masters, he gave me a couple. Smoked one and at the time, it was just a cigar but the whole Dom name associated with Davidoff, I knew it was a special cigar. I smoked the second one at a dinner at his house and for dinner he had Lafite and Petrus all of which was "just wine" to me. I wish I could go back and re-experience the whole thing, especially the part where I turned down more if I wanted LOL. G1
Those are great. I while back I had a #1, I think was a '98 or somewhere around there so it had some decent age. It was a different profile, but it had the most amazing aroma from the smoke. It smelled so good just the tons of smoke coming off the burning end. The flavor profile was very floral, totally mild. That made me really appreciate a mild cigar.
Being a guy that has had the luxury of smoking some incredible cigars over the years this is really hard... but here are a few of my personal, most memorables:
Habana Davidoff Dom Perignon - 1987
Habana Dunhill Don Candido - 1965???
Habana Bolivar Gold Medal - 1983/84
Habana Quai d' Orsay Imperiales - 1994
Habana Trinidad - 7 x 38 - Diplomatic - Pre-Release - 1997
We have been working on trying to recreate a really epicurean smoke for about two plus years now that would fit into this esteemed class of uber-elegant smokes under the code name "Tranquillo", but I will admit it is very difficult to make a new cigar that gives you the smoking experience of a two decade old, properly aged cigar. We are getting closer, but I have my doubts we will be able to blend something new that will ever compare to something truly vintage. Only time alone can create certain nuances imo.
BR,
Steve Saka
President, Drew Estate
Habana Davidoff Dom Perignon - 1987
Habana Dunhill Don Candido - 1965???
Habana Bolivar Gold Medal - 1983/84
Habana Quai d' Orsay Imperiales - 1994
Habana Trinidad - 7 x 38 - Diplomatic - Pre-Release - 1997
We have been working on trying to recreate a really epicurean smoke for about two plus years now that would fit into this esteemed class of uber-elegant smokes under the code name "Tranquillo", but I will admit it is very difficult to make a new cigar that gives you the smoking experience of a two decade old, properly aged cigar. We are getting closer, but I have my doubts we will be able to blend something new that will ever compare to something truly vintage. Only time alone can create certain nuances imo.
BR,
Steve Saka
President, Drew Estate
njstone
BoM January 2010
Cool project, Steve! I hope you're successful with this one. FWIW, I say take a look at the 2010 Illusione Singulare, the Illusione ECCJ, and the EPC Short Runs as some of the examples of what's possible with non-vintage NC tobacco.
For me, a combination of the cigar and the setting makes the elegance of the smoke.
With that said, one of the best was a Bolivar RE UAE and that was in Club Havana, Karachi, with my buddies Fauzi and Daniyal.
I liked it so much that I bought a box.
With that said, one of the best was a Bolivar RE UAE and that was in Club Havana, Karachi, with my buddies Fauzi and Daniyal.
I liked it so much that I bought a box.
