In between basketball games for my daughter, I found myself at the local outdoor shopping mall in Santa Ana California. Among the restaurants and movie theaters was a full-blown cigar shop and smoking lounge call Cohiba. One of the two brothers who own it told me they licensed the name for more than $200,000 dollars and had twelve other stores in the Orange County area. He suggested I smoke one of his own brand cigars and I chose a Churchill with the brand name La Revolucion (Che Guivera is silhouetted on the band). I took the chance at $12 a stick and was blown away at how good this cigar was. Mild yet a bit spicy, perfect draw, smooth without a hint of harshness, beautifully wrapped in Connecticut shade, perfectly even burn, with the whitest ash I've ever seen. This cigar was well worth the money and only put it out because the team was about to leave without me. It would have otherwise smoked to the nub. I wish I had bought a few to bring home, but at $12 the cigar is more of a special treat. Glad I stumbled into it under that very unusual circumstance.
Thank you grant. I posted this because I was amazed that a cigar store could survive in a shopping mall. The owner told me that business was great and that " everyone smokes, young, old, rich, poor." I do believe that a new cigar boom is underway.
Originally posted by Robustojoe: BTW grant, do you play piano? Something about the 88 has me wondering.
haha...no i dont...the 88 is the amount of charters i took out when i was a charter fishign boat capt before i had a swordfish stick is bill thru my knee (bc my mate was a moron) and i retired (at age 24..lol), from the business to start my career in law school.
wish i did play the piano though...im a HUGE billy joel fan
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You're lucky nobody mistakes you for a neo Nazi with this 88 you have. It is common for neo Nazis to use the number 88 as it corresponds to the two letters HH (1=A, 2=B,etc...8=H) which means Heil Hitler. I had a friend who had the number 88 in his handle and a lot of people though he was a Nazi. Ironically, this friend of mine was a Jew.
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Smokingfish, have you tried the La Revolucion cigars of theirs? The Churchill I smoked was super mild but very tasty. Great afternoon smoke. I would like to get a few more but it's too far to drive. When you go next time, would you ask Rafi how I can order some? I understand that their website is not up yet. Thanks
No nazi nor piano player here. My 88 is actually my birth year, yes a youngin'.
Grant, thats an amazing story. Care to share more in detail? I'm a nut for deep sea fishing, and any story relating to it. That must have hurt something fierce though!
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