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Once again I’m having a cigar while I write. I don’t usually smoke in the mornings, but I’ve been enjoying it the last few Sundays, because I know that very soon it won’t be a comfortable thing to do.  To be honest, I really don’t like this time of year. When my end of August birthday comes around, I get depressed, because it signals the end of summer.  I love summer, Fall is a major bummer for me.  I know many disagree, like cigars, everyone has their preferences, I prefer to be warm over cold.  So I’m enjoying every last drop of summer I can.  More on the cigar later, I just lit it up, and it’s pretty good!  But I smoked a few other cigar in the last half of the week, starting with a big Tatuaje Cabaiguan.  This is a new shape for this year, the Cabaiguan No.752, which is 7″ x 52 (good name, that worked out well!).  I thought maybe this was in the Guapos series because of the pigtail cap, but I believe I’m wrong.  This has an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper and Nicaraguan fillers and binder.  It was a very nice cigar, toasty with a hint of sweetness.  I definitely lean more toward the maduro in this line, but this was a really nice shade cigar.  

Near the end of this month, September 28th, Drew Estate is having another Freestyle Live events to reveal a new brand.  They put together packs with three sizes of the new cigar, as well as a cutter, case and flask set.  It amuses me that people are trying to guess what this cigar is, as if it were a line extension. I smoked the toro size yesterday and was really happy with the cigar.  I want to smoke the robusto and Churchill too, but I want to save one for the event! I am actually toying with the idea of buying another pack, but I don’t need more goodies, although I have a feeling I could probably find a good home for them 😉! The case and cutter are really nice, I have no need for a flask! Anyway, this cigar had a very unique flavor, a sweet spice I can’t identify.  It was, in my opinion, b

etter than any Liga Privada. I was enamoured with it.

I’m going to go out on a limb, for the sake of documentation, and say that I think it has a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper.  It’s something very different, whatever it is, and Willy Herrera outdid himself on this one.  I hope it’s not outrageously priced. I love the Undercrown 10, and this was better.  I can’t wait to see what this is!  

Sometimes you

smoke a ci

gar on a Saturday evening hoping to write about it on Sunday, and the cigar doesn’t perform the way you’d like. Perhaps it’s super tight until around the band, and  then it’s falling apart from playing with it to loosen it up.  The flavor is good, but it doesn’t end up being a good experience. This is why I’m smoking a new Sancho Panza The Original robusto as I write this. So far, this sup-$7 cigar is outperforming one that was several time the price. Sancho Panza has been around a long time, I remember buying a bo

x of Extra Fuertes nearly 20 years ago for about $35. They recently worked with the new General Cigars Employee, Matt Booth, on the rebrand. The new look is growing on me and I’ve been looking forward to trying them.  This cigar has a Honduran Connecticut Shade wrapper, Mexican San Andrés binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Brazil.  I’m really enjoying this cigar with my morning coffee, it’s silky smooth and rich, not a mild, papery shade cigar.  I look forward to getting into the Super Fuerte and Double Maduro! These are super budget friendly and this one was really quite good.  

That’s all for today. It’s a holiday weekend, I guess, I don’t celebrate it as the end of summer, but having Monday off is a reward for my labors through the year, I suppose. Soon I’ll have to put the shorts away and get the hoodies out, somethi

ng I dread. Anyway, until the next time, 

CigarCraig