Cigar Noobie

[ggiese]

Where do you live? My guess is that you are in the UK which means the official "Welcome Wagon" (SFG75 aka Scotty) recommended a bunch of crap that is probably not available in Europe.

So before I give you any recommendations, I need to know where you live.

Good point - where you live makes all the difference in the world...

Plus, I'm not understanding why he's recommending Iguana's... What a worthless cigar... I've not been able to ever finish one of these they were so bad...

And Consuerga's have so many different characteristics depending on age and vitola that I wouldn't just point to that line and say "here!". You may be lucky and hit a good one, but chances are the good ones have been taken by someone who knows better, leaving the less than desireable vitolas. Consuerga's are factory seconds of some very nice cigar factories - and also of some less than nice factories. They are sold as seconds for a reason...

Perdomo Overruns? More factory seconds of cheaper cigars - why buy factory seconds of Perdomo when the originals are not badly priced to begin with? I'm not at all sure about these - I generally like Perdomo, but I have to admit - I'm always cautious about bundled cigars.

LVH Fumas (BTW - "LVH" stands for La Vieja Habana - a Drew Estates cheapie cigar, which Alfred assumes you know) Ok... Another el-cheapo cigar... For a new cigar smoker, Alfred? These tend to be a bit more powerful than most he'd probably like to try at first. I would have to say, I'm sure he'd like to have a base of reference with some decent cigars before he went wandering off into this line...

Alfred, please stop... Cheap cigars, true - but I'd say there were some other lines he'd probably want to try before he wandered off into these cigars... Unless you're trying to turn him off to cigars right away... You'd be damn near as well telling him to go to Walgreen's and pick up Peach White Owls, Antonio y Cleopatra or a Bering cigars... C'mon!!!