:-)
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Tom loves his Gurkha specialness. I do believe he is still reserving the one (or several) I sent him years ago for a very "special" occasion.
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Did you know Tom has 2 yorkies named Cremosa and Gurkha? He's trained them to each fetch their namesake :-)
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My PM to Jason was in response to his PM to me, I was so flabbergasted that I actually thought I liked Gurkhas for a moment.


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Don't confuse the whipper snapper! He isn't right in the head...
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Tom we all want to be loved and i think i have a great sense of style. I'm just MAN enough to explore my feminine side. Plus do you know how hot it gets down here? A nice summer dress really keeps the vinegar smell to minimum if you know what I mean. :-)
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man...
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:-)
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Apologies for the thread hijack! I don't care much for a cigar of the year or top ten list at all. I think the industry puts way too much stock in lists and ratings. The hype of "buy our cigar it's a 94 rated smoke by CA" What does that even mean? I guess people just love putting stats on everything. Growing the tobacco, Aging it, Rolling it, and finally the finished product. I enjoy the mystery of why a cigar tastes so good. Why is it that a cigar tastes pretty good fresh but in 5 years of aging it can become simply amazing and ethereal? I don't know honestly but then you go through the thoughts of "well, if it tastes good after 5 years buried in my humidor what will 6 years taste like?" There's a joy in the mystery of not knowing all the time. I remember some group tested the PH and chemical profile of the soil in the pinar del rio province and then tried to recreate it in a lab and grew tobacco in that synthetic soil and then made cigars from that soil. Why? I guess people want to quantify mystery sometimes. I do not and I guess that's just me.
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Had #4, thought it was good. I'm intrigued with #3.
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7. Buenaventura BV560
A great cigar that I could find, not going to be happy if it's going to make it hard to find.
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I thought the top 10 was pretty good but they lost me with most of 11 - 25.
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Just looked at the best bargain cigars of 2013 and there are a ton of 50 and less rg on that list (for obvious reasons). Perhaps the smaller smokes we love will get a second glance.
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