Weekend Cigars: RyJ Short Churchills – Sunday November 14, 2010

To set the stage:  A month or so ago I did a very small favor for one of my readers who wanted to order some merchandise from a company that wouldn’t ship to an APO.  Since I have no problem using USPS.com to ship to one of our members of the military serving his country abroad, I asked him to have the package shipped to me so I could get it to him.  Naturally, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to include a couple cigars for him to enjoy, ones from my regular rotation that I wanted to share, and one of the Hamiltons House cigars from the box I purchased after interviewing George Hamilton.  Well, a week or two after he received his box in good order, the same box shows up on my doorstep with return fire.  He took a beautiful Casa Magna box and included several FINE cigars, as well as a note on his stationary and a really cool medallion.  I am

humbled by the gift, and am most thankful, these are cigars that I very rarely have the opportunity to sample.  One of these cigars is the subject of this post.

The Romeo y Julieta Short Churchills is a relatively new cigar from Habanos S.A., launched in 2006.  It’s a Robusto measuring 4 7/8″ x 50 and has a nice light colored wrapper.  If this cigar had a box press, it had regained it’s roundness by the time it got into my hands.  As stated in my last post, I have laid off of cigars for the last week and a half or so due to a sinus infection, so I figured it would be as good a time as any to spark up a special cigar.  It was a beautiful autumn day here in south-east PA and I was due to take my Saturday walk to the local convenience store.  I have had he good fortune to smoke it’s namesake, the Churchill on several occasions and have never really been “wow”ed, good cigar, but I was expecting so much more from an iconic cigar.  On the other hand, I bought a box of RyJ Coronita en Cedro, which are a very inexpensive  petit corona that I passed out at my daughter’s wedding a few years back and enjoyed them VERY much.  So I entered into this cigar with moderate expectations, but high hopes that my first cigar in over a week wouldn’t disappoint.   Of course, it didn’t disappoint.  It was a nice, mellow cigar, but had that tell-tale Cuban “twang” that you just don’t taste in non-Cuban cigars. It burned as well as a Havana cigar can be expected to burn, however I did have to re-light it once after setting it down for a few minutes.  Upon re-light it was as good as new, with fairly mellow and woodsy flavors.   I liked it, I would smoke it again in a heartbeat.  I greatly appreciate the gift.

That’s about as close to a cigar revie

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as you can expect from

me, until I fire up one of the other cigars in that package.  I’m still working on that contest, and am planning another blockbuster celeb interview for the very near future so s

tay tuned!

Until the next time,

CigarCraig