Trinidad and Las Calaveras Cigars and a Giveaway!

It’s a busy time of the year and Christmas on a Thursday really threw off my week.  I had to go out yesterday and buy some new-to-me cigars for today’s post.  I also decided at the last minute to half-ass a giveaway!  More on the giveaway after I talk about a couple cigars.I ran into Cigar Mojo – The Grove, and found a few cigars that I haven’t smoked yet. This is an interesting problem to have, but I’m having trouble finding the combination of cigars I haven’t smoked, and cigars I want to smoke.  It’s come to me going through the humidor with my phone searching my own website to make sure I’m not repeating. And then there’s some cigars I just don’t have any interest in smoking.  I’m also price sensitive, and they have quite a few pricey cigars in the humidor. It’s easy when I want to stop in for a smoke, but less so when I’m looking for something new to write about. Anyway, I grabbed a Trinidad Espiritu Miami since I hadn’t had that one yet.  This is the fourth cigar in the Espiritu line, I rather enjoy the No. 2 the most, but they have all been good.  I want to get a hold of the Tommy Bahama edition. This is a 6 1/8″ x 52 Belicoso, and is a Nicaraguan puro made at the A.J. Fernandez factory.  While this is inspired by Miami, it contains no Miami tobacco!  This is probably a good thing. The bright colors and art deco look of the bands was very appealing to me and seemed to go along with this festive time of year.  I quite enjoyed the hour and a half I spent with this cigar.  It burned and drew well, and had some sweet, bready sensations.  I didn’t think the wrapper would fall into the beautiful category, it was on the ugly side, with some mottling and an odd color. Smoking with your eyes isn’t limited to packaging.  I liked this cigar, it was medium bodied and quite enjoyable.  Once again, most times if I enjoy an Altadis cigar, it’s made by A.J. Fernandez.  

Another cigar I picked up was the Las Calaveras LE 2025 from Crowned Heads.  I selected the LC54 size which is 6″ x 54. This cigar has a mid-priming San Andrés wrapper that’s not your usual maduro wrapper, but Colorado in color.  I haven’t smoked too many of the Las Calaveras line in the past, but the ones I have I’ve enjoyed.  This one was also enjoyable.  I almost grabbed the 2024 (they have 2’23, ’24 and ’25 on the shelf) because the band has red and green in it and I’m still feeling Christmassy, but I went for the newest one instead.  Mojo is a mile away, I can always grab more.  These are made at the My Father factory. There is an earthy cocoa flavor with a little bit of spice. Interestingly, the first half of this cigar burned really fast,  I was maybe 20 minutes in when I started wondering if it was going to make it to thirty minutes.  At the halfway point it slowed down, and I got to somewhere around an hour and a quarter.  It finished off well, nice cigar. I’m thinking I may have to go grab a ’23 and ’24 next time I’m there. 

It’s a bit of a tradition around here to give stuff away around the holidays. I have some goodies lying around, so here’s what going to happen!  I have a neat Don Doroteo leather case, with a cutter and lighter. This is a really nice item, it’s just not something I’ll use. There’s a. J.C.Newman Bricktoberfest stein.  There’s a nice Villiger lighter.  I’ve had this silver plate Gurkha ashtray in my closet for a few years, it can use a little shining up, but it’s a nice ashtray. Ironically, I’ve heard that mixing some cigar ash with water makes a good silver polish.

Top that off with some miscellaneous goodies, along with at least a dozen cigars from my humidor which I’ll and pick, and you’ve got a pretty nice bunch of stuff.  So leave a comment here on this blog post.  Facebook comments, IG, Threads, X comments don’t count.  I look forward to reading your comments!  I’ll select a winner randomly next Sunday.  Good luck!

That’s all I have for today!  Happy New Year to all.  Until the next time, 

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