Posts Tagged Under Montecristo

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January 2nd, 2012

Christmas Corona Gordas, Day 8: Montecristo C EL 2003

It is January 1st of 2012, first day of the new year and day 8 in this series of reviews. Five gordas are left to review and since I my last cigar of 2011 was a limitada, I will start 2012 in the same way, hoping to get similar results. Today’s corona gorda is the [...]

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By yiorgos
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December 20th, 2011

12 Corona Gordas for the 12 days of Christmas - Starting Christmas Day

It has now become a tradition to smoke and review one cigar a day during the Christmas holidays. In 2009 when it all started,  I smoked 13 Robustos, while last year I went through 20 Lonsdales. This year I am going to smoke 12 cigars all from the same size, which happens to be my [...]

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January 8th, 2011

The Lonsdales of Christmas, Day 15 - Montecristo D EL 2005

Today is the last of the 12 days of Christmas, and today would have been the day of the last cigar according to the original plan. But with my urge to try all the lonsdales I could get, I am here with 6 more to go! After a few disappointments last week, I decided to smoke a [...]

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December 26th, 2010

The Lonsdales of Christmas, Day 3 - Montecristo No.1

Stephen’s Day is all about winding down from the madness of Christmas day. The kids are knackered from the day before and usually have a lie on, and there is enough food left over so there is no worries about cooking either. Luckily, I wasn’t dragged into a mad shopping spree to catch the sales [...]

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By yiorgos
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December 20th, 2010

The Lonsdales of Christmas - Starting Dec 24th

It is Christmas again, and a great time to take out those special cigars from the bottom of the humidor. Last year we went through a robusto for each one of the 12 days of Christmas. It was great fun so I decided to to it again this year, only with a different size. The [...]

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October 17th, 2010

What’s new in 2011

Unlike previous years, Habanos plans for the upcoming year are very slow to come out. By this time last year we already knew what we are going to see in 2010. But apart from the Regional edition list that we have posted before here, there is only some scattered information on the rest of the [...]

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August 21st, 2010

Diplomatico No.2

Diplomatico is one of Cuba’s relatively newer brands. Released back in 1966, Diplomatico was launched and marketed as a milder and cheaper alternative to the Montecristo range. The brand was created for the French market initially, but it wasn’t long before they became popular in the rest of Europe and worldwide. The original release of the Diplomatico [...]

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February 7th, 2010

2010 Habanos Releases

With less than to weeks left before the 12th Habanos Festival, where Habanos will present their full plans for 2010, we already have an idea of what to expect in the new year. Some of the releases have already been known since the middle of 2009 and some of them only became available in the [...]

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November 24th, 2009

Which is your desert island cigar?

On the last herf, Rob - a fellow BOTL asked me:”which is you desert island cigar”? Without much thought i replied: “The Partagas D no.4″. Then moments later I thought, “Well, maybe the Cohiba Robusto… Or the Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill… Or the Cohiba Pyramide 2006… Or the Romeo Churchill… Damn, I can’t make [...]

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August 22nd, 2009

2010 Limited Editions

With the 2009 Edicion Limitadas still not widely available and quite hard to find, the first rumors have surfaced regarding the 2010 Limitadas line up. According to these rumors,  the three brands featured in next year’s Limitadas are Partagas, Montecristo and Trinidad.
Partagas will bring us yet another member in the D and EL Series; the Serie [...]

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