There are few things in the world that seem to be great by themselves but excellent when paired with another – sometimes food, drinks or even activities. I am sure we can all relate to having that perfect creamy milk and cookie combination, the sweet burn and cooling of hot wings with ranch, the kick of a long island ice tea but not many can write ‘having a great cigar while playing poker’ off their list although they tend to go together better than many might first assume. It is hard to describe but I have fond memories of the light sting in the cheeks that was caused from over-laughter, when my heart started to beat a little harder placing that sketchy bet or when we all knew another round was needed to be poured because someone lit another cigar after throwing in their anti. But – for many, premium cigars are just as familiar when playing poker as mumbled cuss words from a bet gone wrong. I will say though, there is nothing better than playing a real money poker game and not only having fun, but walking away a couple dollars ahead.

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Now that we are into the second blind review and we are getting more submissions, please let me know if you all would like us to keep doing these type of blind reviews. Enough with the jabbering – what was the damn smoke already?!

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Blind Review #2

Eric

CIGAR #2: Very dark, rough wrapper – maybe Brazilian Mata Fina – 6 inches x 7/8 inches diameter – very oily – decent construction – 1 large vein – absolutely a maduro – very leathery smell – firmly packed – foot has leather & dark cherry smell – 1 inch in the burn is pretty crooked – dirty grey ash w/ brown tint – dark cherry & chocolate flavours – has a Liga Privada essence to it – burn starting to correct itself – ash pretty flaky – lots of smoke – good draw – smoke has a leather & woodsy aroma – burn still goes wonky & then self corrects – flavours are chocolate and light toasted notes
- had to touch up crooked burn – last third has black coffee flavours – leather is back at the end.

Brian

Appearance and construction: Beautiful dark, oily wrapper, without measuring I’d guess a 56/58ish RG. The cigar burned fairly evenly, but I’ve had to do multiple relights so far (not sure why, my RH isn’t too high in my humidor).

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Size: 5 x 42 ( Petit Corona )
Wrapper: Nicaraguan (Habano Sun grown)
Binder and Filler: Nicaraguan
Strength: High Medium to Low Full
Price: unknown

Behind The Stick:

Alright – so this is a cigar that literally was sent to me out of the blue that I didn’t even know existed. I got a pair of them from a buddy on one of the cigar forums, and then @youngbuck sent me one along with a few other smokes! Since I had a few of these around, I decided to light one up and have it as my commute cigar back home from work. When I got home, I mentioned the odd size ( spoiler, I like this size ) on twitter and heard a lot of good things said about them and thus lead to some research. The Oliva V has always been a ‘go to staple’ of mine – when I don’t know what to have, I can always fall back on the V and be happy. Lets see if this little brother of the line lives up to the name!

Well, the story of the No 4 is that Oliva released these to a small number of European shops, and an even smaller number to American shops – but only if there were in attendance of the TAA trade show in Cabo, Mexico. This makes for a great ‘must have’ series, simply dude to the limited availability of them! From what I have been able to find, the blend is essentially the same, nothing ‘major’ has been changed but rather minimizing the size down to a nice corona feel and making something that fits that daily commute, for me, just about perfect.

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Whata You Smokin?

Alright – into week two of the What am I smoking segment. I have heard a couple people say they like it while a few others could live with or without it so please let me know if you all want me to continue posting my weekly wrap up of smokes. This past week I was out of town for business so I only had 3 ‘after work’ smokes so I was going to combine the two weeks into one but I figured, what the hell better 3 than zero.

January 9th, 2012
– It was Monday and I was not really sure what I was in the mood for so tried to bring a decent variety of smoke with me to work.

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