[Bruce]

My oldest son (now 21) has always been around cigars with me and his summer job. He worked at a country club and was around cigar smoking golfers all day.

One day he came home and asked me about a certain cigar. I asked him where he got it and he said he found it in a golf cart and he wanted to know if it was any good.

I told him it was a dog rocket and explained to him what qualifies as a good cigar. On the way to his first year in college (3 years ago) we drove by the Grand Canyon on our way to Mesa. That's when I gave him his first good cigar......a Davidoff Chateau Margaux. We smoked them as we walked the path of the southern rim at dusk. Definitely a special moment in time!

Ever since then I bought him a humidor (actually Mike Hotek from Bargin Humidors gifted it to me for him), traveldor, and have been stocking his humi. He still visits his local B&M and buys a few on his own to experiment, which I encourage. He is developing his palate nicely, but then again, his humidor is always stocked with well aged havanas.

On his 21st birthday this past April, (my 51st also) I gifted him a box of vintage RyJ Churchill tubos........from 1985, the year he was born. He has tried one and said it was the best cigar he has tasted to date. I think he is saving the rest to smoke every year on his (our) birthday.