Good Cigar suggestions...

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Whether sitting around the Club in my trews (MacMillan hunting-- modern colours), or enjoying a post prandial snifter whilst wearing my hand stitched kilt (MacMillan ancient-- modern colours) at the White Heather Ball {all of which is a shameless attempt to drag this thread back to some semblance of an off-topic topic} I do enjoy a good cigar, usually a top drawer Don Guillermo from the Dominican Republic. Note that I said enjoy, not smoke. I believe that a gentleman doesn't smoke a cigar, he savors it, in much the same way that he savors a decent scotch or a fine armagnac. It should be savored the same way a gentleman savors sliding behind the wheel of his Rolls-Royce every time he takes it out for a drive. In short, lighting up a cigar should be something one does with a sense of occasion, not merely to satisfy a craving for the addictive qualities of nicotine.

No, a good cigar is above cravings, just as surely as white socks are the mark of a rube (especially when twinned with brown shoes and a blue suit). Indeed, Mr. Kipling (a Freemason, story teller, and well-dressed judge of the human condition) summed it up best when he penned these immortal lines, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke".

As I stand here, swathed in tartan and puffing a cheroot, I couldn't agree more.

[The Wizard of BC]

My hands down favorite is----

Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas Number III

Size: 6 3/4" X 43 ring
Strength: Full Bodied Origin: Dominican Republic Wrapper: Cameroon Shape: Straight 10-year old Cameroon wrapper, Dominican and Nicaraguan Ometepe filler, Honduran binder.super-premium cigar!


This is the Lonsdale size with the green band. Only 600 boxes of these are made each year making this one of the rarest cigars in the world.
I don't care if it's rare, I just like the things. I have only one left from a box of 20 I stumbled on about 10 years ago. I search everywhere I go to find another box.

[Bryan]

My favorite is the Arturo Fuente Hemingway Classic. With a Cameroon wrapper, what more could you want? A latest favorite of mine is San Cristobal, a fairly new cigar made by Ashton (of which I am definitely NOT a fan), it's a great medium to full-bodied maduro.

[hallmarktex]

I will second ( or third) the recommendation for JR alternatives. I like their take on the Cuban Cohibas. Very nice.
If you want a good name brand then the Joya de Nicaragua 1970 series is very good. I don't like most Dominican cigars because they just taste like smoke (no flavor) but I will make exceptions for the Arturo Fuente Double Chateau Fuente and the La Gloria Cubanas. Churchill size all.

[Bryan]

...Joya de Nicaragua 1970...

That Antaño is a fantastic cigar! And very full bodied. Another of my favorites.