Perdomo

[ashauler]

I was reading some stuff on another board, and some very experienced BOTL's were almost unanimous in their opinion that Perdomo had really improved in the last couple of years and were back to making quality smokes as they had many years ago.

I'm curious of what some of you long-timers have to say about that? Same experience?

[craig]

I hope so for their sake.

[kevin7]

If you read it on HP like I did They are correct. I don't reach for perdomos anymore after many many many years of sub par shit.

[ashauler]

If you read it on HP like I did They are correct. I don't reach for perdomos anymore after many many many years of sub par shit.

Yep, that's where I saw it. When I first started smoking I had a few, and had problems with them all too often. There have been some good mentions of them here as well......worth another shot it seems.

[logan37]

I wasn't smoking many years ago, but I do enjoy most sticks by Perdomo. My favorites are the Lot 23 and Cuban Parejo.

[nhcigarfan]

The habano corojo is good. I just keep seeing the same old stuff re-boxed or re-branded. squareds, tradicion etc.

[EdgeMan]

I am not an old timer but my favorite Perdomo so far is the Lot 23 Natural which I purchased about a month ago. I thought the Perdomo-2 was OK but nothing I would go running after.

[ashauler]

O.K., so I dug around in the trade/pif/pass humi and found three perdomo's in there and smoked them all yesterday.

Remainder cameroon: I only got through about 1/2 of this one. Construction was o.k., but the flavor was just sour and not for me at all.

Perdomo 2 Limited 2008: This was a much better cigar than the remainder, I made it all the way through. Pretty solid medium strength and flavor, kinda spicy through the nose for the first 1/2 then tamed down and was straight forward to the end.

Habano corojo: By far the best of the bunch. Very nice construction and flavor. Solid medium body, edging to the full side of strength towards the nub. I'll need to pick up a few more of these and check them out.

[sammis]

yep, the Habano corojo and the Lot 23 are very good cigars for me. the lot 23 leaves me with a nice buzz.

my local B&M got me started on Perdomos several years ago saying that they were a good cigar for the money and that they had been getting better lately.

[LawDog2006]

I definitely don't pass up a Lot 23 maduro! Having only been smoking for a couple years now I didn't really know until this post that Perdomo had a bad rep earlier. It's good to see businesses adapt like this.

Has anyone been able to pinpoint what may have led to this betterment? Is it just QC or does it go deeper I wonder.

[ashauler]

Only have about 40 minutes left:
http://www.cigarmonster.com/

[LawDog2006]

Only have about 40 minutes left:
http://www.cigarmonster.com/

Nice timing. Now if they wer only maduros!

[TheGreekTitan]

Bringing up the dead I know...but, I wanted to add my 2 cents. It is raining cats and dogs here as I sit in my garage puffing on an Perdomo 10th Anny Criollo that I got free with a purchase from Famous. The freebies also came with some AB Tempus Criollos which I have not tried yet. As far as the Perdomo, it is not something I would have gravitated towards otherwise, but I have to say it is damn good and I'm glad I have 4 more.

[ggiese]

I was so turned off by multiple bad experienes i had with Perdomo that i doubt I'd even want to give them a second shot.

However - I did have a so-so experience with AB a while back - but tried the same cigar a few years later and was stunned and surprised (the Pryme Gold).

All of you Perdomo whores are going to have to give me a unified thumbs up before I'll give them a shot again. There's too many good cigars out there to otherwise waste my time and money.