^^^Try a Padron 2000 or 5000...or the Davidoff Winston Churchill pictured below...

Early round of golf today...no coffee this morning so I started out with...

Tabak Especial Cafe Con Leche...chocolate/coffee infused cigar that is medium bodied and very sweet. Great start...


Right before the turn...Padron 1964 Principe...smooth as always...


Home stretch...Davidoff Winston Churchill No. 10...one of my newer cigars in my humi and box worthy!

 

Well...Monday was a good haul for cigars. I'd like to thank Jim for filling a nice order of Padrons and sending them to my office. Plus I received two new custom cigar cases from Andre Garcia...

Two (2) more 80 Year boxes...making my humi 12 boxes strong! Stockpiling for the zombie war...


Exclusive Maduro and Natural


Two (2) more boxes of the Family Reserve No. 85...smaller vitola but fantastic flavor and kick!


An extra box of the Family Reserve No. 45...great cigar!


What beats No. 45...No. 46...great Padron blend!


Andre Garcia Cigar cases...

 

^^^ Awesome shipment and beautiful cases bro! I might have to pick up one of those Andre Garcia's.. so sweet!

Had a fun Friday night with my bud's and the ladies.. got a few cigars smoked and a bunch of beers, cocktales and shots! It was hard getting up the next morning for a trip to Laughlin, NV... but I managed..

First up was a Tabak Especial Cafe Con Leche.. thanks Jon!


Next up was a Romeo y Julieta ROMEO


Lastly a H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon some Cherry Spumoni and Anejo Tequila.. Maybe I should have saved the Cafe con Leche for dessert but it was all good by this point of the evening!

 

Backdoc - Was just in Vegas last weekend for the UFC fights. How often you go out to Laughlin? I have good friends that live off of McCormick and Boulder Highway. I love it out there and I'm headed there in 4 weeks for the 2012 River Regatta!

Ciao

 

^^^ what's up? I do laughlin a couple times a year since I have a couple of see doo's. I prefer lake havasu but its easy to get rooms in laughlin and we stay at harrahs so its convenient to ride the ski's since they have a beach to kick it on while others ride. Hot as hell tho.. I think it was a buck ten this weekend.. The river regatta is a bash!

 

Yeah, my wife and I used to have a couple really nice Sea-Doo XP's and did the same. Since there gone, we just chill poolside at the Nugget and smoke cigars/drink!

Yeah it was blazing HOT in Vegas last weekend too! Looking forward to the float down the river and all the parties.....

 

I was in the Golden Nugget pool all day sunday. Best pool in laughlin I think. I'll stay there next time and let my brother stay at harrahs.. Nugget is much nicer. I brough some smokes but it was just too dang hot!

 

GN is the ONLY place I stay out there! Its small (the way I like it), has some great restaurants (Saltgrass Steakhouse & Joes Crab Shack), starbucks coffee, the best night club (Tarzans) on the strip, and great poolside cabana's with 42" LCD TV's and refrigerators. Yes, best pool in Laughlin by far!

I usually hold off on the cigars until later at night when the heat dissipates, usually between 8-10 pm. When you reserve the cabana you get it from 8am - 10 pm, and its a great spot to enjoy a cigar and watch a ball game!

I have been staying at the GN now for almost 15 years.

 

yeah no doubt the GN is nicer.. We ate at Saltgrass and Joe's Crab Shack.. We put my mom up there for the weekend.. she enjoyed it. BTW, what do they get for a day for the cabana? We saw a guy get kicked out of one for not paying. It was hilarious cause he was trying to impress his lady.
At 8-9pm it was still over 90 degrees.. probably closer to 95!

 

Love the Saltgrass! Joe's is okay if you like generic seafood. The cabana rental is $75 Monday - Thursday and $150 Friday & Saturday during the summer months. Off season rates are $75 Monday - Sunday. That's hilarious about that guy and trying to impress his lady! We have a similar story; I actually went out to my cabana after dinner with wifey one night, and there was a couple just chiln in our cabana with all there stuff brought down and everything. I had to tell him that they weren't free and then he asked how much they were and got pissed off. So funny because his chick was so bummed and had to help him move all there ****!

Your right about it still being pretty hot out but 90/95 is way better then 100/115!

 

Just did inventory on my humidor dedicated to aging cigars...basically cigars that have or will be aged for over 1-5 yrs...

San Cristobal de La Habana Oficios 10
Montecristo Petit Edmundo 10
Hoyo de Monterrey Du Prince 10
Montecristo Especiales No. 2 10
Ramon Allones Gigantes 10
Partagas Série P No. 2 5
Punch Double Coronas 10
Cohiba Mágicos 10
Montecristo Edmundo 25
Cohiba Siglo II 25
Cohiba Siglo VI 10
Cohiba Genios Maduro 5 25
Trinidad Robustos T 12

Sample Box 1
COHIBA Siglo V 3
H. UPMANN Connaisseur No. 1 2
H. UPMANN Monarcas 1
MONTECRISTO No. 1 2
ROMEO Y JULIETA Exhibición No. 3 2

Sample Box 2
COHIBA Coronas Especiales 3
COHIBA Lanceros 3
PARTAGAS Shorts 2
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA El Morro 2

Sample Box 3
COHIBA Behike BHK 52 4
COHIBA Behike BHK 54 2
COHIBA Behike BHK 56 2

Sample Box 4
H. UPMANN Magnum 46 2
MONTECRISTO No. 5 2
MONTECRISTO Petit Edmundo 2
PARTAGAS Shorts 2
RAMON ALLONES Specially Selected 2

Limitada/Special Edicions
Montecristo Grand Edmundo Edición Limitada 2010 10
H. Upmann Magnum 48 Edición Limitada 2009 25
Trinidad Short Robusto T Edición Limitada 2010 12
Hoyo de Monterrey Short Hoyo Piramides Edición Limitada 2011 10
Trinidad Ingenios Edición Limitada 2007 12

 

Great day of golf and cigars...

Cigar on the way...Room 101 San Andres...decent stick...fuller than a imagined and draw was tighter than I would like


Padron Special Release 1964 Toro...now we are talking...the smoothness and sweet draw contrasted tremendously against the Room 101


Trinidad Robusto T...something about a well aged Habanos stick...YESSIR!


Padron !964 Anniversary "A"...another Padron masterpiece...


Padron Special Release 40th Anniversary...great end of round cigar!

 

^^^^ redunckulous inventory bro! Wow, a five pack while on the links! That is a great day of smokes and links.

 

Thanks brother...aging them takes some patience but it will be worth it. It'll take a good cigar and make it a great cigar...just enough edge comes off and certain characteristics/complexities of a cigar get time to develop.

Tomorrow is another round...I've got a Cohiba on deck and the rest is Padron familia...

 

Sunday golf...decent round and 3 good, very good, and great cigar...

Good...Tabak Especial Cafe Con Leche...6.30am coffee replacement cigar...like smoking a cafe cubano shot of expresso!


Very Good...Cohiba Genios Maduro 5...I took one out of a box of 10...aging this will make this into a GREAT cigar.


Great Cigar...Padron Family Reserve No. 46...newest blend (previous were No. 44 and No. 450...what a fantastic draw, smoke profuse, and down right as good as it gets. BRAVO!

 

^^^ nice shots... Damn good round too.
Tonights pairing: A.F. Short Story and a Dos Equis Amber. Also threw a couple of Rib Eyes on the grill.

Just for you JR! They looking "something" like this..

I won't make that mistake again!

 

What? No pictures of the rib eyes?!?!

 

Bill...love the short story! Hope you and JR are doing well!

 

Thank you brotha! Hope you guys are well and healthy. You guys have a productive week! I gotta kick some azzz the next 10 days or so and then off to vegas for my 45th... Going to get some smokes and drinks in for sure.. Going to try to visit Casa Fuentes!!

JR, see edit above!

 

I smoked this last night...Padron Family Reserve No. 46


These were today after work on the golf course...

Padilla 1932 Signature


Padron 1926 Serie No. 2

 

At Rocky Patel's Burn cigar bar...God of Fire Series B Maduro and Macallan 25...I really enjoyed this God of Fire...draw was good, ash was darkish gray, burn was slighty uneven but not unmanageable. It was medium to full and with the combination of the Mac 25 it capped off a nice evening.

Burn was nice and great atmosphere...with a decent humidor. Not the best but decent...

 

^^^ Nice smoke / drink combo JR! Is the Patel Burn Lounge in your home town?? How's the whiskey selection there??

 

Bill...Burn is in Naples, Fl about 2hrs south from me. I'm here with the family and my sister's family on a long weekend out of Tampa.

Whiskey selection is ok...highway robbery prices though. That glass of Mac 25 was $$$ about 3x too much...

 

Celebrating with a Opus X Old BBMF from the 2011 Opus X Charity Box...paired with a Stella Artois, Glenmorangie Elegance 21 year, and then black coffee...

Once I started the tip of the BBMF, the draw was perfect...I am glad I've aged it (over a year now)...just absolutely smooth smoke, profuse smoke and impeccable construction...



I started the smoking day earlier while wifey was shopping with a Padron 1964 Exclusivo Maduro and coffee...

 

^^^^ Your living right brotha! Great selection of smokes and drinks as usual.
It's always a bummer when a decent scotch is $$$ when you know they've rapped you.. but I still order them . Carpe Diem!

That Opus X Old BBMF is just cool looking. Enjoy you Sunday bro.