Your top 5 from local B&M

[tx_tuff]

Ok lets hear your top 5 cigars from your local B&M or wherever you buy most of your cigars (maybe internet.). The cigars have to be ones you can buy at least half of the time from your shop and all from the same place. List the name, size, price, and any info you want to about them. And the name of the shop and city its in. Hope everybody gets on board with this one.

[tx_tuff]

1. Ashton VSG
Enchantment 4 3/8 x 60 Perfecto
Strength: Powerful, Rich, Complex
Wrapper Ecuadorian Sungrown
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican
Orgin: Dominican Republic
Price: 10.50 each box of 22 for 231.00
Blended for Ashton by Calos Fuente Jr.

2. Rocky Patel Vintage 1992
Torpedo 6 1/4 x 52
Strength: Med to Full
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sungrown
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Nicaraguan
Origin: Hondras
Price: 8.30 each box of 20 for 157.50
10 year old wrapper, 5 year old filler

3. Camacho Select
Robusto 5 x 50
Strength: Med to Full
Wrapper: Cameroon
Binder: Rancho Jamastran
Filler: Rancho Jamastran
Origin: Honduras
Price: 6.80 each box of 24 for 128.50

4. Oliva Serie O Natural
Torpedo 6 x 52
Strength: Full, Complex
Wrapper: Sungrown Habano
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Connecticut Broadleaf
Origin: Nicaragua
Price: 4.50 each box of 20 for 80.00

5. Cuesta Rey Sungrown
Pyramid #9 ^ 1/4 x 52
Strength: Full
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sungrown
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican
Origin: Dominican Republic
Price: 7.15 each box of 10 for 49.50 (thats 5 a stick!)
Developed by Carlos Fuente Sr., filler is 5 year Dominican Ligero

Ok I think I like Sungrown LOL. Buy them form Serious Cigars in Houston, TX

[boomshay]

does it count if i haven't actually bought any of these sticks from here yet? i'll be going to ISU next year and this is the B&M i've visited that's just off campus... i'll be visiting here a lot

AF short story
Asthon vsg
CAO Sapranos (all sizes)
AF Don Carlos

lots of different toranos/patels for my 5th pick

[tx_tuff]

Originally Posted by boomshay

does it count if i haven't actually bought any of these sticks from here yet? i'll be going to ISU next year and this is the B&M i've visited that's just off campus... i'll be visiting here a lot

AF short story
Asthon vsg
CAO Sapranos (all sizes)
AF Don Carlos

lots of different toranos/patels for my 5th pick

Works for me

[BadMormon]

Favorite B&M is:
Iwan Ries & Co. (pronounced EE-vahn REES)
19 S. Wabash Ave
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
800-621-1457
http://www.iwanries.com/index.cfm

Avo Mad. Belicoso
48X6
$8.70
Description: These cigars are a blend of 5 different tobaccos, mostly Dominican. The AVo Maduro line uses...a Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper instead of the natural Connecticut...mild to medium-bodied flavor...8 sizes are offered cellophaned in boxes of 25, while 6 of them are also offered in tubes in boxes of 20.


Ashton Classic Corona
44X5.25
$6.50
Description: medium body with nuances of peppery spice. The blend of 3 to 4 year old Dominican tobacco, along with its rich golden Connecticut shade wrapper creates an extremely well blended rich taste.

Butera Royal Vintage Fumo Dolce
44X5.5
$6.60
Description: Six distinctive whole-leaf tobaccos from three different countries are blended, including four specific types of long-filler leaves from the rarest Dominican crops. Handmade in Dominican with Dominican binder and filler.



Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 Robusto
50X5.5
$6.50
Description: See other posts in this thread.

Rocky Patel Vintage 1992 Robusto
50X5.5
$6.50
Description: See other posts in this thread.

They also carry the Oliva Master Blends, which are some of my favorites also.

I don't know if they have the C. Torano Exodus 1959 Gold Label, but I really love those too. Sorry if this is too much information.

[tx_tuff]

Originally Posted by BadMormon

Favorite B&M is:
Iwan Ries & Co. (pronounced EE-vahn REES)
19 S. Wabash Ave
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
800-621-1457
http://www.iwanries.com/index.cfm



I don't know if they have the C. Torano Exodus 1959 Gold Label, but I really love those too. Sorry if this is too much information.

Never to much info, this is what I'm looking for. Thanks

[ldostlund]

I am not a stickler on the sizes as some of my favoriets are usually limited availability. I'm not trying to be snooty, but I ussualy treat myself when I'm at the B&M. As for the price, they cost more than I tell my wife I spent. Sometimes I hit up Joe R's (churchills) in down town long beach, other times it's Taylor's Tobacco house in Long Beach.

1. OpusX
2. God of Fire
3. VSG
4. Padron 19..
5. Flor Dominicana double ligero chisel tip.

[discdog-cl]

Mine are pretty easy:
LG - Small Batch
LG - Lustianos
LFD - Chisel Maduro
Pepin Blue Label Generoso
Tatuaje - any

[boomshay]

i'm just wondering.. what do VSG's generally cost in your local b&m's i want to try and get a feel for how good the prices are at mine

[tx_tuff]

From $8.25 for a Tres Mystique 4 3/8 x 44 to $13.20 for a Wizard 6 x 56

[asdfx0rz-cl]

Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 Gold
Carlos Torano Cameroon 1916
Ashton VSG Illusion
Troya Classico XVIII
Gurkha Estate Vintage Shaggy

Oh, and the Troya Classico is something relatively new from Don Pepin Garcia and is a PHENOMENAL smoke. Had a friend give me one and he says the B&M has had them in stock since they came out. Goes for about $8 but is well worth it..

[Architeuthis]

Squid usually gets tongue-tied when at the B&M and faced with so many choices. I usually just wander the humidor for half an hour and then grab five sticks at random... <G> I really only buy exactly what I expect to purchase when shopping on-line.

[g8trbone]

I am like Squid. When I wander into a B&M I look for stuff I haven't tried yet or don't have in the humi (a lot) and pick up a couple sticks in the Robusto size or something close. I am always on the look out for OpusX, ESG, and limited releases.

[countnikon]

AF Chateau Maduro Robusto
AF Short Story
Sancho Panza Quixote
HdM Excalibur Maduro #1
Sancho Panza Super Fuerte

[PJR]

1. PAM Exclusivo
2. Oliva Serie G Cameroon toro size
3. Tatuaje Havana VI Robusto
4. FFOX various sizes
5. Saint Luis Rey Churchill

Don Yeyo's, Dearborn, MI