Perdomo 2 Limited Edition 2008

What's new BsOTL?

I'll tell you what's new. Check out my new zebra wood humidor engraved with the logo of the 2008 World Series champs! Fightin' Phils baby, gotta love it! The logo was engraved as a sunken relief, providing a 3D feel. Best part it the outside of this humidor was crafted with wood from Ryan Howard's broken bats from the 2008 season and of course lined with Spanish cedar -well the first part was a joke, but that would be pretty pimp if it was.


So it's been a while since my last blog post about the GH2 by Gran Habano, had some major work to attend to after the holiday. By the way, I herfed my last GH2 the other day out of the bundle I split with Gary Korb, the Cigar Advisor.  That was a great buy, a buck a stick off the MONSTA.

Anyway, as you may know, I keep the Cigar Monster website up all day at work, and every hour when the deal changes and the Monster does his evil laugh, I check out the new deal. Well at 10am today, I heard the laugh and was souped to see he was giving away a Perdomo Super Premium Sampler for $29.99 (regularly at famous for $49.99).

I've thoroughly enjoyed a couple Perdomo's before, so I jumped on this deal and by 10:10 I had the sampler in hand, ready to christen my new humidor with its first set of sticks.

G-Man suggested I start out herfing the Perdomo 2 Limited Edition 2008 box press. I'm about halfway into it now as I type this blog.

Wrapper Check
First thing I do before I light up a cigar is run it under my nose from head to toe to get a good whiff of the wrapper. Smelled like a dynamite cigar, often times you can really tell it's going to be a great smoke.

This was my first boxpressed cigar that I've smoked. Don't act surprised, you know I'm a newbie, although I'm beginning to acquire a taste for my ideal cigar. This Perdomo 2 profile might just be what I'm after.

The cigar was was constructed very well, no ugly veins, no soft spots, dark brown coffee-color wrapper.

First Draw
Once I lit this bad boy I was in stogie heaven, the flavor was so buttery like I just cracked open a snowcrab leg drenched in melted butter.

Burnin Love
As all Perdomo's I've smoked to date, this Perdomo 2 Limited Edition is burning evenly, leaving compact ash in its wake.

Consistency
I got about an inch left till I hit paper, will need to remove the label because I'm taking this one down to the cap, that's how good it still tastes.

Well that's all I have for today, wanted to introduce everyone to my new humidor and chime in on what I thought about the Perdomo 2 (squared) Limited Edition 2008 boxpressed cigar. Seriously though, if you havent' checked out Cigar Monster yet, you really need to, that's where I'm testing cigars to see which ones deserve a roster spot in the Fightin's humidor, and which ones get sent back down to the minors.

Check out the Monster Mashup from 11pm - midnight tonight if you're interested in grabbing the Perdomo Super Premium Sampler - here are the contents of the sampler if you are interested - you should be!

1 Perdomo 10th Champagne Robusto Natural (5 x 54)
1 Perdomo 10th Criollo Robusto Natural (5 x 54)
1 Perdomo 10th Maduro Robusto Maduro (5 x 54)
1 Perdomo 2 L.E. 2008 Robusto Natural (5 x 50)
1 Perdomo 2 L.E. 2008 Robusto Maduro (5 x 50)
1 Perdomo Habano CT Robusto Natural (5 x 52)
1 Perdomo Habano Robusto Natural (5 x 52)
1 Perdomo Habano Robusto Maduro (5 x 52)
1 Perdomo Lot 23 Robusto Natural (5 x 50)
1 Perdomo Lot 23 Robusto Maduro (5 x 50)


Until next time, keep smokin...

GH2 by Gran Habano

So before I left the shop on Christmas Eve, I picked up a bundle of GH2 by Gran Habano cigars off the Cigar Monster because the price was right - just $24.99 if I remember correctly. I wanted something to smoke during the holiday, but since my wallet was light after the holiday season, the monster delivered a reasonable deal.

You may notice I'm wearing green today, that's because the Philadelphia Eagles are looking like the team to beat in the NFC - works for me! Twas a nail-biter last night coming down the wire but D-nabb and the boys pulled it off.

Anyway, enough Monday morning quarterbacking about the Beast of the NFC East that is long overdue for a Superbowl ring, and back to this GH2 by Gran Habano corono gorda bundle I bought to hold me over till I returned to the cigar shop this brisk Monday morning - a bit nipply out there today (.)(.)

Bobby Rica from Half Smoked asked me how the GH2 cigar smoked via my Facebook  http://www.facebook.com/cigarstogies (friend me up!) so figured I'd burn 'n blog about it today.

Construction - the cigar is put together well, I haven't noticed anything weird. no unraveling, took the cutter like a champ.

Color - dark and rich Habano wrapper, coffee color, it's twat I like, I'm not big into the lighter color cigars that literally resemble cardboard (think Phillies blunt). Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of excellent cigars with light wrappers.

Taste - full-bodied flavor, seems like a *hint* of chocolate and coffee, with a matching aroma. I'm still learning the differences between tastes and the plethora of adjectives used to describe stogie flavors, so pardon me if you are an aficionado and have a more refined opinion. Your comments are welcome, by all means! After all, I admitted to being a newbie when I started the blog.

Smoke - thick n creamy

Burn - burns evenly, only had to relight once so far because I left the room for a bit.

At full retail price, it's worth checking out, but that's why you have to perioidically check the monster for those no-brainer opportunities to try a new cigar, and perhaps make it a full-fledged member of your cigar rotation. At a buck a stick off the Cigar Monster it's hard to deny the Gran Habano GH2 some love.

I think of the Cigar Monster as my testing grounds for new cigars because nothing's worse than buying a bundle of cigars at full price that you end up not liking "here you go buddy, try these..."

The GH2 by Gran Habano was worth the 1/2 calorie I burned cutting and lighting this stogie - it's tough work lifting cigars, but someone's gotta do it so it might as well be me!

Until next time...keep smokin!

Famous Private Selection Dominican Toro 5 Pack

I just picked up a Famous Private Selection Dominican Toro 5 Pack off Cigar Monster for $9.99. Twas a killer cigar deal considering the same 5-pack is now $24.99 on Famous Smoke's website - seconds after the deal expired on Cigar Monster.

On my last blog, I admitted to being a complete cigar newbie aspiring to aficionado status so if you are looking for a more refined, expert opinion, feel free to tweet Gary Korb from Cigar Advisor @CigarAdvisor or the infamous Famous Hayward @Famous_Hayward to see what they think.

Anyway, this blog is about the cigars I'm smoking and what I think about them - so on to my review.

• Size - Toro
  
• Strength - Mild
• Burn - Even burn, stays lit, haven't had to relight yet.
  
• Draw - Medium, don't have to draw too hard, and not like smoking air with an easy draw.
• Ash - Solid, intact, only had to drop the ash to make sure it didn't fall onto my keyboard, can get messy sometimes with a cigar that isn't rolled well, but wasn't the case with this one.
  
• Aroma - Nutty
  
• Flavor - Woody
  

Well that's what I'm smoking today and what I thought about it. I'm going to put the last 3 of my 5-pack in the humidor, let them rest for a bit before I fire up another one.

I'm out...till the next stogie...

@cigarstogies