Several years ago, Little Bay beach in Sint Maarten at night, Cohiba Esplendido - best cigar I've ever smoked.
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An aged 1996 Cohiba Siglo V that I smoked with my high school buddy back in 2004. I managed to smoke it right down to a 5 mm nub. Best range of leather, coco, and coffee flavors that I have ever had in a cigar.
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For me, as of right now, it would be the 07 Cohiba Siglo IV or the 07 HDM Regalos I've got. I've been smoking for less than a year though. Opus X and Padron Anni's are good as well, but just seem to be missing something when comparing to Cuban cigars.
Mine would be a Bolivar Royal Corona or a Monte Edmundo. But the environment where I smoked the Boli (in a summer sea resort with my friends) was much better than that with the Monte (a cold night in the balcony while reading a very boring book about free masons) so the overall experience for the Boli gives it the win.
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Without a doubt the CoRo. I have yet to smoke an Esplendido or a siglo VI but I have them in the humi thanks to crazypoet. These may take over first place but untill then nothing compares to the Cohiba Robusto. IMHO.
Originally posted by LuckyBreak: Mine would be a Bolivar Royal Corona or a Monte Edmundo. But the environment where I smoked the Boli (in a summer sea resort with my friends) was much better than that with the Monte (a cold night in the balcony while reading a very boring book about free masons) so the overall experience for the Boli gives it the win.
Thats a good point Lucky. Sometimes the company you are in makes everything so much better.
February 15, 2006 I sat outside the hospital in the area where the nurses all go to smoke their cigarettes and lit up a 1492 humidor cigar. My son had just been born about an hour before. That was the best cigar I ever smoked.
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Back when I was in college, I had the most amazing cigar. It was a Punch something, I wish I knew what it was. It had a bread, creamy kind of taste. I don't quite fully understand the tastes they describe in CA, so its a bit hard for me to explain. But it was incredible, I still have dreams about that cigar and all my cigar smoking friends are sick of hearing about that cigar.
really hard to pick just one, but i think due to my mood at the time, the air, the day, the drink etc..my best was a padron 1926 No. 2 natural. im not saying that this is my 100% favorite nor am i saying that this is the best cigar around, but that smoking experience adn that stick was by far the best.
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I have two memorable experiences & they happened one right after the other. I was home alone, reading Martin Gilbert's "Search for Churchill" (fitting, right), poured two fingers of Pinch, & smoked a Bolivar Royal Corona.
Next day, in the afternoon, I finished the book whilst savoring Jack Daniels & a Montecristo Edmundo.
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Cohiba Maduro 5 Genios last week on Grand Cayman. No doubt the beach scenery and and Crown Royal enhanced the experience, but that was one damn fine cigar. Pricey? You bet. Good? To date, it's the best I have had.
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Originally posted by littoines: Without a doubt the CoRo. I have yet to smoke an Esplendido or a siglo VI but I have them in the humi thanks to crazypoet. These may take over first place but untill then nothing compares to the Cohiba Robusto. IMHO.
Originally posted by jimschn: For me, as of right now, it would be the 07 Cohiba Siglo IV or the 07 HDM Regalos I've got. I've been smoking for less than a year though. Opus X and Padron Anni's are good as well, but just seem to be missing something when comparing to Cuban cigars.
Yes, I agree, The cubans have a rich creamy taste like no other. I too like the Siglo IV and the opusX XXX too.
But The best Cohiba I've had so far this decade is the Cohiba Piramides LE Maduro 2006. I aged it for a little over a year and it was incredible.
I was in Bahrain, and my buddies and I ate at this place called Brazilian fire. We stopped by the cigar store and I picked up my very first Montecristo #2 CC. We went back to base, I toasted it, and was in heaven for pretty much two hours. That was the best cigar of all time.
I envy you guys who can pick out "the one". I've had a lot of great smokes, but none that I could call the best I ever had. The one that stands out the most for the "overall" experience has to be the Padron 64 Imperial I had on my wedding day tho.
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I agree with appa69, it’s the overall experience and the environment that compliments a great cigar; and could make it an exceptional one. I have many great ones, but one off the top of my head is about 3 years ago that I smoked on my birthday after a terrific meal, smoking a OneOff Campanas (aged for about 2 years) in my apartment drinking the best bourbon I have ever had, 16 yr A.H. Hirsch Reserve.
Another notable was a Cohiba Siglo VI paired with some Bookers bourbon. Excellent! It was my first Siglo VI.
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