Casa 1910, SP1014 and Alec Bradley Thirtieth Cigars

I somehow chose three cigars with numbers in the names this week.  Purely unintentional, but maybe I should buy a lottery ticket?  Lets see, 19, two 10s, a 14 and a 30….how can we make that work?  It would be a stretch…nevermind, I’ll save my money.  I started out with the Casa 1910 Chuchillo Parado in a 5″ x 50 Robusto.  This came from Freshbox Cigars, by the way, I’ll be announcing two winners at the end of this post who will get a Freshbox starter kit (and there’s some space in the humidors, extra cigars may fall in while I’m packing it!  Anyway, I smoked a Casa 1910 Chuchillo Parado, which is a 5″ x 50 robusto and seems to be only available in this size. I was sure I selected the Toro, which is the Tierra Blanco, but either I goofed or they made a substitution. It seems I smoked one of the Chucillo Parado after the 2021 PCA show sometime, because it shows up in a blog post from January of ’22.  I apologize, I try not to repeat cigars.  I will make an exception because it was a worthy cigar, and it promotes the folks at Freshbox, who we have to thank for sponsoring this giveaway. I am plagiarizing myself a little in the next couple sentences.  It’s a Mexican puro, with San Andrés Negro tobaccos wrapped in a Mexican Sumatra wrapper.  It was a very nice looking cigar, not at all like the Mexican puros I started out smoking in the 90’s.  Nor did it taste like those cigars, which were almost a dirty flavor.  This had a unique spice component, which stuck to the palate, almost, like licorice, but not licorice, if that makes sense.  This cigar smoked really well, and was quite satisfying.  Maybe I remembered from a few years ago (not likely), but I nailed that the wrapper was a Sumatra variant, it has that odd sweetness.  It was good, I stand by my previous comment that I’d buy tese again because I did (accidentally).  

Next up was another cigar generously gifted to me by Phil at CigarsComedyMusic.com, an SP1014 Red from Sanj Patel and Chico Rivas.  This is supposed to be a Dominican Corojo Puro, which is certainly interesting.  It’s also supposed to priced at 1992 pricing, which I don’t quite get because a $9 cigar in 1992 was a very expensive smoke.  Opus weren’t $9 because they didn’t exist, but when they came out a few years later they were not far off. Unfortunately, $9 is reasonable now. This is another interesting cigar that I would try again given the chance.  It starts with a sensation like warm, spicy bread, then the spice builds.  It’s an engaging smoke, different enough to be interesting and enjoyable.  One of these days I’ll venture to Sanj’s shop in new Jersey.  

Finally I decided to give the new Alec Bradley Thirtieth a try yesterday afternoon.   This celebrates Alec Bradley Cigars Thirtieth anniversary, “Thirtieth” would be kind of a silly name otherwise.  Since Scandinavian Tobacco purchased Alec Bradley, their release have been hit or miss, I have to say that none of their three iteration of the Chunk have been to my liking, which may be why you haven’t seen them appear here.  I keep trying, and when one hits me right, I’ll let you know.  Others have been OK, but this Thirtieth is really good.  It should be good to celebrate a milestone, considering Alan Ruben started the company selling cigars to golf courses and ended up selling it fro $73m twenty five years later. This cigar is made at Raices Cubanas, where a lot of AB cigars were made from the beginning.  It’s a blend of Nicaraguan and Honduran tobaccos, and it somehow has a delightful citrus tang, refreshing almost.  It’s medium and eminently smokeable.  I want another one right now!  Maybe later.  This is probably the best Alec Bradley cigar since the aquisition, and it should be.  Nice work. 

It’s time to select a couple lucky people from the comments for me to ship some humidors and cigars to!   I have consulted Google’s random number generator ( I think I’m going to look into a wheel next time, that looks fun), and was given the numbers 16 and 5, which correlated with DCT and Mike McCain!   Please send me your contact information so I can ship these out to you.  Thank you to Freshbox Cigars for providing these goodies!  That’s all for today, until the next time, 

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