Fair Dinkum, it can be easy to mis-read emotion with text so I'll start again...and apologies if I have stormed into a community-type chat room without introducing myself. I appreciate I was a tad blunt (probably caused through emotion stunting alchohol when typing it out!)
My name's Carl, I'm 31 we've got 3 kids and I live in Cumbria (UK). For a living I hand feed baby parrot chicks that we've bred, which doesn't really leave me with much time for any interests really as the chicks needs fed every few hours. I do play a bit of online poker however and we have quite a lot of our friends come round to drink and chat too so we've generally got guests most days to keep us entertained. It does make us look like a small pub/ achoholics on bin day with all the cans/ bottles to be recycled.
The cigars were gave to me by a good friend who's smoked cigars for quite a while, a lady he knows gave a collection from her late husband to him as she knew he appriciated them and is into wines etc too. He's a generous chap and initially gave me 2 which I passed onto my father as a birthday gift (he's one of these guys that has everything, and if he wanted something "normal" he'd simply buy it himself) and after that my friend gave me another 4 telling me we'd smoke them on a special occasion. He'd mentioned that he thought they were pretty rare and up to 45yrs old so I looked into them on Google etc and couldn't find any information about them and posted a thread on another cigar forum.
My friend has quite a lot more of them and also the outer main box/ coffin with the stamp thing on them too, he also has some pretty old other cigars and Davidoffs (I thought they just made aftershave) too alongside others that I simply can't remember the names of.
I got some quite valuable info from the other site, considering I know nothing about cigars but still I'd like to find out if there's anything else to know about them like a more accurate date ideally and why they are so rare. To be entirely honest I'd never sell them as it would be a bit cheeky to my friend and due to the rarity and price I'd probably never smoke them either!
That said it got me really intrigued about cigars and thought I'd buy a couple and have a pop because now I've been stopped smoking cigarettes a couple of years and might be able to distinguish flavours better...so I bought a couple from a local tobacconist yesterday and smoked/ tasted them with a couple of my friends last night and I reckoln I'm going to get sucked into this in a reasonably big way, very enjoyable social experience but I reckon my pallets got some way to go just yet.
With such a new pallet other than a "cigar" taste I got a slight pineapple taste on the first one that I tried which was an H. UPMAN and from a Dunhill Petit Carona I got a leathery, walnut/ woody taste! I might be talking absolute sh*t though!!
Anyhoo....sorry again if I've initally just stormed into your site and rocket the apple-cartand hello
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