Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2011 2 Comments »
Go to the Habanos festival held in Havana each year and you’ll be instructed on how to pair different beverages with different cigars…. I could give you my feelings on this but I am the first individual that would tell you how little I know on the topic…. These guys in Havana have been doing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Once again, I’m puffing away on a Montecristo Petit Edmundo from Oct of ’06 ….. Eat your hearts out……. There’s NOTHING like an aged cigar and especially a Monte that has 5 years of age under it’s belt… The Petit Edmundo tends to have a bit more strength than a lot of the other Montes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
As I write this I’m tasting loads of vanilla in the second third of this wonderful robusto from Hoyo de Monterrey…. The Epicure No 2 , a true robusto with a 50 ring gauge at 4 7/8 inches long, from Oct ’08 is not quite 3 years old but now smoking so well that I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2011 No Comments »
In 1966 a new brand of cigars was formed in Cuba that was meant to be a secondary value line to the Montecristos.. This cigar brand, Diplomaticos, was initially aimed at the French market and cigar smokers in France enjoyed them for years.. This line was a bit more affordable, compared to the Montecristo, but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2011 No Comments »
A few years back Cuba introduced a great foolproof system for cigar smokers to check the authenticity of Cuban cigars they intend to buy by adding a barcode to their packaging…. This is attached to the green seal that appears on the bottom left hand side of the cigar box….. At times you will see [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2011 2 Comments »
I am a big fan of Cuban cigars and love the taste I’ve been experiencing with many of the Cuban brands available to Canadians but today I decided to light up a cigar from Rocky Patel that turned my head and made me wonder why I haven’t been smoking more of these.. This Toro [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2011 2 Comments »
On Canadian television we have a program called, “How it is Made”.. This is filmed by people east of us in Quebec and it really is a fascinating program that takes you into factories and shows you in great detain how products, from toothpicks to model trains to clothes pins, are all made… I’m always [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Any attempt on my part to try to pass on any new information about this year’s Habanos Festival in Havana would be senseless. There are many sites online that give you all of the info you need to learn about this year’s huge party and this isn’t it…. I’m always interested, though, in learning about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Take A Montecristo Edmundo from Sept 06 and care for it, love it and keep it under optimum conditions in a humidor and you get what you se in the picture above… These three Edmundos are what’s left of the 4 I got in that incredible cigar purchase I made around Christmas.. Oh I wish [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2011 4 Comments »
I wasn’t intending to place an entry into today’s Monte blog but after lighting this Petit Edmundo, I was inspired to take this picture,write and try to describe this cigar’s great taste and let you know how I came to own this cigar…. I’ll start with how I found this cigar ( well, 6 Petit [...]
