Mexican Dog Rockets

[Maduro Man]

Just wanted some input on Mexican Smokes. Why the bad rap(No Pun intended) all the time? I really like the Santa Clara 1830 line from the San Andres valley of Mexico. Any thoughts?

[cigarsarge]

I can smoke Te Amo maddies.

[WOXOF]

The only Mexican cigar I've had was a fake cuban.

[Lukeman8]

Well, I dont know what it is, or where it came from, but I had a cigar about 7x47 about and all the label said was "MEXICAN", with white, green, and red. It was OK - tough draw...and I think its ok to assume that it was from mexico.

[Maduro Man]

Thats a good one...

The only Mexican cigar I've had was a fake cuban.

[Jonjonmacky]

I had one once, and the draw was real bad... my fiance said it made me smell like poop. And it required 2 relights, and was acrid.

[cigar no baka]

The only cigar I've had that had a good deal of Mexican tobacco in it (to my knowledge) is the New Orleans Cigar Factory Tres Hermanos. I love the cigar, I smoke boxes of the #3, but I've heard a lot of people say how much they hate Mexican tobacco and that it tastes grassy. Not the TH #3, it tastes like a tasty cigar to me.

[spiffykyle]

The only cigar I've had that had a good deal of Mexican tobacco in it (to my knowledge) is the New Orleans Cigar Factory Tres Hermanos. I love the cigar, I smoke boxes of the #3, but I've heard a lot of people say how much they hate Mexican tobacco and that it tastes grassy. Not the TH #3, it tastes like a tasty cigar to me.

I'll second that. I had a couple of these while sitting on the patio at Pat O'Brians in New Orleans. Very nice cigar. I wasn't aware it had Mexican tobacco though.

spiffy

[cigar no baka]

I'll second that. I had a couple of these while sitting on the patio at Pat O'Brians in New Orleans. Very nice cigar. I wasn't aware it had Mexican tobacco though.

spiffy

Me neither, and I'm glad I didn't know or I would have avoided it, having heard so much dislike expressed towards Mexican tobacco.

[l0venpeace]

Just wanted some input on Mexican Smokes. Why the bad rap(No Pun intended) all the time? I really like the Santa Clara 1830 line from the San Andres valley of Mexico. Any thoughts?

I think people would be surprised to learn how much Mexican tobacco one smokes when smoking cigars.

Besides La Vega Divina and La Casta which are Mexican Puros, all of these cigars contain Mexican tobacco (mostly as binder)

Rocky Patel 1992
Torano Exodus Silver
Alec Bradley MAXX
Barrington House (the Jamaican Brand)
Don Lino Maduro
Partagas LR

See, Mexican tobacco isn't so bad!

[Maduro Man]

Ok So see...I'm not crazy!!! People do like Mexican smokes. well at least 2... or 3.

PLUS HEY SPIFFY!!! You just smoked a Santa Clara 1830. You said you enjoyed it and that was nothing but mexican leaf. Binder, filler and wrap.

[spiffykyle]

I know! And I said I liked it. Honestly I've never had an opinion on Mexican tobacco before. Now that I know I've had a couple, I have only good things to say.

Its probably like every other tobacco producing country, there are some great tobacco's and some crappy tobaccos.

So count me in on the Mexican tobacco bandwagon.

spiffy

[MarkD60]

At my favorite cigar shop, there's a bartender from the Phillipines. I was talking to him one evening about making cigars there and getting them on the market. He says that although they grow tobacco and smoke it, it isn't that good, because of the soil.
I'm sure there's some good Mexican cigars, but that bartender and I figured out that the best tobacco comes from the Caribbean, a little comes from the USA east coast and Africa, but mostly from the Caribbean.
I'd smoke a Mexican cigar if I came across one.

[ashauler]

What about Central and South America? I understand that probably the very best tobacco comes from a certain place in the carribean.......but beyond that, Nicaragua-Honduras-Ecuador....all produce some damn good leaf.

Edited to add: Damn, this is an old thread.