Montecristo Cigars

Its Official!!!  The spring has come to the Pacific North-West!!  It has been a fairly mild winter and my hard-core golf buddies and I have spent a lot of time out on the links, but you really know it is official whenever you see the crocuses and Montecristo cigars in bloom… The two little beauties ( petit Edmundo and a No. 4 )in the picture below, have popped their heads out of the ground and are now soaking up the sunlight.  My first thoughts are always to run out with my garden clippers and harvest the first ones of the year, but I know that if I’m patient, and let them go to seed, I’ll have a lot more coming up next spring… Nothing is finer than having a cigar sitting for a length of time in the humidor, then seeing a bloom ( Plume as well ) appear on the wrappers.  Unlike the purple blooms you see below, a bloom on a cigar is more whitish. This is a sign that the cigars are aging properly in your humidor and happy,  healthy cigars will only make for very very happy smokers..This is going to be a fine year coming up.. I predict there will be a lot of cigars, golf and spring flowers !!