Today's smokes......

[illilli]

This week I smoked:

Flor De Ybor City Belicoso - ("Review These" Cigar #2 - Thanks mauied1101)

5 Vegas Double Corona

RyJ Clemenceau en Tubos

AF Chateau Fuente Sun Grown - (Excellent!)

HdM Governors - (Flaky wrapper, but surprisingly tasty. Thanks mauied1101)

[HeadHoncho]

Today I smoked a Punch. It was light colored and 4.50 x 50. I believe it was a Rothchild Oscuro cigar. I never had one of these before, and it had a kind of bitter start and ended up kind of spicy and creamy tasting with no bad aftertaste. Kind of liked it. Something to look forward to smoking again.

HH

[Newfie]

Nice feel, easily lit, very nice smoke to halfway then the burn got real moody!!

[jaewing]

Today I smoked a Punch. It was light colored and 4.50 x 50. I believe it was a Rothchild Oscuro cigar. I never had one of these before, and it had a kind of bitter start and ended up kind of spicy and creamy tasting with no bad aftertaste. Kind of liked it. Something to look forward to smoking again.

HH

Those two descriptions don't exactly match. While probably the Rothchild the light coloered description would imply the natural wrapper but the "oscuro" as you call it generally refers to dark maduro type wrappers. The Punch Rothchild comes in three versions: Natural, Maduro and Double Maduro (or oscuro as some call it). My favorite is the Double Mad.

I don't want to seem picky or like I am busting your nuts here just offereing information.

TODAY FOR ME:
La Flor Dominicana 2000 mini torp (only about 4 inches long or so). Great with my coffee and a book this mornign on the patio.

[ggiese]

This afternoon started with a late 80's Davidoff 4000 ISOM... VERY nice!!!

Then I finished it off with an AVO 80th!!!

...if you don't mind - I'm going to lay down and take a nap to recover...

[HeadHoncho]

Those two descriptions don't exactly match. While probably the Rothchild the light coloered description would imply the natural wrapper but the "oscuro" as you call it generally refers to dark maduro type wrappers. The Punch Rothchild comes in three versions: Natural, Maduro and Double Maduro (or oscuro as some call it). My favorite is the Double Mad.

I don't want to seem picky or like I am busting your nuts here just offereing information.

TODAY FOR ME:
La Flor Dominicana 2000 mini torp (only about 4 inches long or so). Great with my coffee and a book this mornign on the patio.

No problem. I was simply going by descriptions on one of the popular online cigar shops. They had a pic and it showed to oscuro type cigar to be of a lighter color than the others. I guess they used the wrong pic...natural wrapper sounds correct.

Question on the Punch cigar. Anyone have a problem with the wrappers coming undone while smoking them? My humidor is typically between 67 and 72, so I don't believe its a humidor problem.

HH

[nhcigarfan]

LFD Lancero. Nice.

[ggiese]

No problem. I was simply going by descriptions on one of the popular online cigar shops. They had a pic and it showed to oscuro type cigar to be of a lighter color than the others. I guess they used the wrong pic...natural wrapper sounds correct.

Question on the Punch cigar. Anyone have a problem with the wrappers coming undone while smoking them? My humidor is typically between 67 and 72, so I don't believe its a humidor problem.

HH

I used to think it had to do with my humidor - but I've come to realize there are too many cigars I've stored in my humidors I've not had trouble with, and a few that have fallen apart on me. I'm thinking it more likely has to do with the actual initial construction, or how it was stored before I got it. I also occasionally have issues with cigar wrappers splitting on me - which I believe means the cigars were probably stored on the dry side, and then hit my humidor that is at a constant 65% or so.

It's also possible that the wrappers (especially the lighter ones) are a tad on the fragile side...

[HeadHoncho]

Good points. I have noticed that as well. I wasn't thinking it was a humidity issue, but more of a mfg or previous storage issue like you said. That aside, I really liked the flavor of the Punch cigar.

HH

[jaewing]

For some reason with Punch cigars I almost always have issues with the cap coming off whether I cut or punch. Other than that no wrapper problems.