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A Wet Helmet:
I have a new obsession. Good lord, I enjoy cigars the way some people enjoy wine. Is anyone else here a fan?  I'm just finishing an Olivia siere O torpedo and it was fantastic. The wife and I are seriously discussing starting our own brand and possibly a cigar bar. Hell, I'm planning a vacation to Nicaragua just for the smokes!    Barring that, I might drive up to Canada to pick up a couple of recently liberated from communism cigars.

Anyway, a thread to talk about cigars, if you're so inclined. Likewise, if any forumites are interested in a cigar oriented get together in the DC area (or anywhere else) I'd be down to host or attend, as applicable.

Noctem:
I share a certain enthusiasm. The DC area indeed has quite a few great tobacconists, and should this cigar get together happen when I return to college there come September I'd be down to hang out and smoke.

In terms of good smokes, the best I have had recently was the Romeo and Juliet Cedro Deluxe. In terms of good shops, I enjoy Georgetown Tobacco, though JR Cigar is generally cheaper. W. Curtis Daper is where I get my pipe tobacco, and you can pick up some neat empty cigar boxes for really cheap at Presidential Cigars.

...cue all the DC 'hide the cigar' jokes now (I really hope I'm not the only person to think of that)

sean:
whoa dc thread wutup.

i myself don't like cigars that much right now. i dunno what it is about them, i just don't enjoy them that much. i'm a little into pipe smoking tho, i have a decent pipe that i sometimes buy pipe tobacco for. i've never gotten anything too fancy, but i've found i like pip tobacco more than cigars. i'll need to check out this place, w. curtis daper, where is it?

Elysiana:
Oh heyyy, maybe you guys can help out me and Ryan. He's wanted to get into cigars but has no idea how to choose a cigar he'll like, and it's awfully expensive to just get a bunch of them and decide individually (we tried that and it was a bust, he liked fewer of them than he disliked). Is there an easy way to tell what brands are good and what types he'll like just based on his tastes? He's picked up a few that he thought smelled really good, but then he didn't like the taste of them.

He says, "So far I'm partial to Oliva, and I like milder bodied torpedoes." That's pretty much all I've got to go on right now since he's at work, but I can ask him questions to help narrow this down.

A Wet Helmet:
I would assume he liked an Olivia "O" or a "G" which are both medium bodied cigars. Though I have a G in my humidor, I've only tried the O's, which is not only an excellent cigar, it was what I was smoking last night which inspired my original post. Well, that and a bottle of wine. :)

If that's the case, I'm smoking a 5 Vegas classic right now which is also a medium bodied torpedo and is quite good.  The trick, I think, is when you find a cigar that you either like or don't like look to see what it's made out of. Pretty much every decent cigar you'll be able to find out what kind of tobacco is in the filler, binder, and wrapper. Cigar websites will also often try to describe the flavor; earthy, leather, toast, pepper, etc.   Then either seek out (or avoid) similar in the future. Of course, there's nothing wrong with finding one thing you like and sticking to it either.

As for trying new things while trying to avoid an expensive disappointment:  I don't want to advertise for a particular website but there is an eBay style site out there where you can bid on cigars and try new things out on the cheap.  I get quite a bit of my stuff from there.

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