Churchills

[Phoebus]

Hello all,

This is my first post, so firstly allow me to introduce myself. I'm an English expat living France. 38 years old and a relative newby to cigars. I proudly purchased my first Humidor last week (a Dunhill) which takes pride and place on my bookshelf.

My only real experience with cigars is smoking Robustos, medium strength, especially a Cohiba Robusto but also the Vegas Robaina, Famosos Robusto.

I would like to smoke cigars longer than the Robustos that I smoke. It ends all too quickly ! for me, especialy oon a ong hot summer evening, which is when I smoke.

Hence, I've interested myself with churchills. I've smoked three recently, two H Upmanns and a Punch Churchill. The timing was perfect for the smoke (up to two hours) although I didn't like the Punch one at all (despite it's nice aroma) and I feel that those I've smoked including the H. Upmann aren't strong enough, especially when starting to smoke them and that they are two delicate especially at the outset.

What do you advise? Do you think that smoking Churchills are altogether a different experience from Robustos and in what way ? Perhaps Churchills use fewer leaves and are less complex because of that ? I suppose that I should try a Partagas and a Cohiba Churchill (a little too expensive for me, though). Unfortunately, Vegas Robaina don't seem to produce a Churchill, the Robusto of which I really enjoyed.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,


Phoebus

PS Edit: Sorry, this probably should have gone under the "Favourite Cigar Size Post" and I can't cancel it. (Be nice to me, I'm new !!)