Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
My grandmother on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan had gardens all around her yard which fed all of her children and grandchildren for all of the time that we knew her. You’d walk into her house and the first thing you’d notice was the smell of sour cabbage that she used for cabbage rolls that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Summer is finally here and cigars are a lot more fun to smoke outdoors…. I have great friends that I spend time with, count on when I need them… My driver seems to be working again and the balls spend more time in the fairway now for my second shot… My humidors are working fine [...]
Posted in Favourites, Montecristo Finds!, Montecristo Limited Editions, Montecristo Models, Montecristo site reviews, Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2011 No Comments »
I had a whole topic ready for today’s entry and decided to do something a bit different because of a Montecristo memory I can’t seem to shake off today… I was at a friend’s and we had a few Cubans burning, one of them being a Montecristo A and another being a Sancho Panza Sanchos, [...]
Posted in Favourites, Montecristo FAQs, Montecristo Finds!, Montecristo Models, Montecristo site reviews, Personal, Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2011 No Comments »
In 2004, The Edmundo from Montecristo, became a regular family member of the Montecristo line and this Robusto became available to people world wide on a regular basis… Since then, we’ve read countless reviews on this cigar and found that this Robusto has become a favorite choice for those who want a full flavored cigar [...]
Posted in Favourites, Montecristo FAQs, Montecristo Models, Montecristo site reviews, Personal, Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Go to Havana, meet the manager of a government cigar shop and think that everything will be simple with a cigar purchase, just may not be a simple as you would think…. There are just over 30 different cigar brands in Cuba with many different sizes and shapes with varying flavor profiles and strengths and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2011 No Comments »
A few years back the good people from Montecristo decided to introduce a new line of cigars aimed at new smokers…. The Eagle is the largest cigar in this series at 5.9 inches long and a mighty 54 ring gauge which delivers quite a mild but woody and slightly spicy profile…. The next size down [...]
Posted in Montecristo FAQs, Montecristo Finds!, Montecristo Models, Montecristo site reviews, Personal, Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2011 No Comments »
First of all, you’d be very hard pressed to find any cigar from Cuba today that has been as consistently popular as the Montecristo No 2, cigar smokers, world wide, choose this as their ” Go To ” cigar on almost a daily basis. But…. One cigar that has been gaining a lot of popularity [...]
Posted in Favourites, Montecristo Finds!, Montecristo Models, Personal, Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2011 4 Comments »
Our loss in game seven of the Stanley Cup last night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver set off an evening of madness, rioting and looting that is now online world wide for all to see. Not our city’s proudest moment.. Just over a year ago we hosted the Winter Olympics and we showed the globe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
This beautiful Cuban Montecristo No 2 from 2006 is quite pretty as it sits in the evening sun on this piece of decorative paper but as I was looking at the pic on my computer screen I couldn’t help noticing that the cigar has a bit of a rough appearance….. Well, it really doesn’t as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2011 4 Comments »
This lovely little Montecristo was going to be lit after tonight’s victory in Boston against the Bruins………. Ummmm….. Back into the humidor it goes, for the time being… Tonight’s loss against Boston was really surprising, not in how much we lost by but by how the game was played and how much violence was put [...]
