Montecristo Cigars

      Well today is kind of a good news bad news sort of day.  The good news is that the weather is pretty nice outside but the bad news is that my buddy, Rick, tells me that there are very few steelhead in the river.  Thing is, when you have good weather and the sun is shining, even if you have fish in the river, they are spookier and try to make more of an effort to stay hidden and don’t take as many chances going after your offering.  The good news today is that it’s Friday and the bad news is that today is “Rake the Lawn and do Yardwork” day…. Now I realized when I pulled my Monte #2 box out of the humidor, the good news was that I still was in luck…. But…. I was down to my last one….The good news here as well is that it came from a box dated, September ‘07.. That was a nice box and after sitting for over 2 years and aging quite nicely, they started to taste mighty fine…. ( no bad news there)…I lit it up after lunch and this one may have been the pick of the litter. It had the lightest color ash, smoothest taste and lasted for almost 2 hours… I am able to smoke them very slowly and coax that finest flavors that Montecristo wanted me to taste when they were blended and rolled. Well I guess there will always be another box of Montes and there will always be a last one waiting to be smoked!