partagas black label clasico, I was 18 and loved the experience....yay to be young still...oh that was a little over 4 years ago
"Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and a bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business, and sometimes even a religion." -Ernie Harwell
I had smoked cigars periodically in college and a few years afterwards. My current boss had the 2006 top 25 and I made it a quest to get as many as I could (all 19 NC and 2 of the CC). That mission, more than any single cigar, is what got me hooked. I have my favorites now, mostly Pepin's/Tatuaje, but I still like to try everything!
Posts: 722 | Location: Moon | Registered: June 07, 2008
"Cuban seed tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Cuba. The wrapper would be from Cuba. The binder leaves would be from Nicaragua. For the ligero tobacco in the filler, he would use two types, one from Esteli and the other from Jalapa in Nicaragua. The other filler components, seco and viso, would come from Cuba, the former from Villa Clara, the latter from Pinar del Rio. That Cigar, he says with pride, would score 100 points." -Don Pepin Garcia
Monte #4 cc. My friend went to cuba and came back with like 5 of them. It was amazing. there was no looking back after that. For a while i regressed into maca doo doo's and did the whole noob journey until i came back around full circle and now i'm smoking cc's again.
“I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves” - Jack Handy
Posts: 2123 | Location: The Green Mountains | Registered: March 26, 2009
Dont know if it was my first but I do know that I was hooked with the Fuente 8-5-8
I still say it is THE classic cigar of all time. And a lot of people here will agree...so often over-looked with all the blend-of-the-week cigars coming out...but the original 8-5-8 still has the classic pre-light aroma, and a great taste. You know you're smoking a Fuente.
I started smoking cigars in the early 90s, back then the Fuentes were the kings of the cigar world. I think my first cigar was a Short Story, and like everything you try for the first time, it was fantastic, full of flavors I had never experienced. I was hooked immediately. Then a couple months later I had my first Cuban, a Bolivar Royal Corona with about 3 years of age on it. After that, it was all over. It was a lot more difficult to obtain Cuban cigars back then, but I found a way and the Royal Corona became my "go-to" Habano. Still to this day, I love them, however, the Short Story is no longer one of my favorites.
"Laissez les bon temps rouler"
Posts: 841 | Location: Tiger Country USA | Registered: August 06, 2008
Was hooked on cigars long before I started premiums, but the first premiums that changed my quality direction were Partagas in the seventies sometime I think. Switched to JDN shortly after that and smoked them until they were no longer available because of the civil war.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--Wow--What a ride!!"
Posts: 1184 | Location: St. Louis, Mo area | Registered: November 17, 2006
oh my first real cigar was CC RyJ E No.4 oh was so good. but for the NC god bless padron i was on my honeymoon in kuala lumpor Exclusivo maduro i loved it.
I think it was around 90 or 91 when I used to visit my friend in Tampa. We would go to Ybor City for Cuban food, Coffee and Cigars. It was La Gloria Cubana back then that did it. Man were they great in those days. I smoked on and off for years after that, mostly in the summer at parties. Then a good few years back while in Disney World with my wife I bought some Opus X at the Sosa Cigar Store. I havn't looked back.
Originally posted by mellison: Nat Sherman Metropolitan Maduro. I had no idea tobacco could taste so good.
Nat's stuff is good, I've had the Bankers Maduro and it's a beast of a smoke, my cutter wouldn't fit it because of the 66 ring gauge, luckily I had large gauge punch on me!
