Well Tim its me again. I am now a full-time cigar smoker. Starting 6 months ago smoking once a week, i am now up to approximately 8-10 a week. With that said all my humidor rotation cigars have come from either your suggestion or your reviews. I will be trying the Foundation Aksum Claro just based on your review. Your excitement for cigars is contagious, and your ability to B.S. with the best is, in my book a great abililty to have while petaling cigars. But you come across very genuine, and its apparent you love what you do. Thanks again for all the knowledge and advice. May the smoke be with you.
Tim, just wanted to tell you, your reviews and shorts are the only ones I can stomach. Your enthusiasm for your content draws viewers in and makes me want to torch up the next cigar, even when it’s not the one you reviewed!
Tim is so consistent in the cigar space on RU-vid. Love the videos. Placed my first order from his company this past Thursday. Got myself two sticks I have been dying to try; the Flathead V660 and CAO BX3 just to test the variety. Cigars are limited where I live. I'm looking forward to trying these Thanks to Cigars Daily.
I smoked the Aksum Robusto maduro yesterday at my local shop....it was excellent. I got zero burn issues, razor even burn throughout - no touchups. Flavor was on point at first draw and throughout. It held an ash like a champ and only had to ash it once. I will be getting more to add to my humidor.
Just curious if I missed the video or what but did you ever acknowledge Bradley's death? I know you guys had a fallout but figured something would been said.
How often is uneven burn a reflection of a cigar blend versus possibly an individual, one off cigar out of a box? I've had uneven burns but never with any box as a whole that I've bought. I've come to believe cigar shops can vary for any particular cigar quality. Since moving, I've rebooted my opinions on all cigars I've tried before, mainly because I believe many "bad" cigars I've had in the past are due to shops varying in quality and environment. The champaign (perdomo?) Is one I remember loving and not loving over and over, for example.
I have unopened boxes of the Claro and Maduro that have the Metapa branding, wonder if I should save those as they may be worth something in the future, thoughts?
I still can't figure out who box presses are for. They don't burn evenly, they are so unwieldy in bigger rings and they are a pain to cut in big sizes. You trade off pretty everything for a more consistent draw.
At the end of the day cigar flavor, profile, texture…etc. is about pallet preference.You like vanilla wafers, I like Oreos …the other guy likes chocolate chip. Find your sweet spot.
Nicks cigars are good and all but I don’t see what cigars have to do with Ethiopian culture, if maybe they had some lead from there his branding would make sense but he might as well just call that cigar Alexander the Great or the Napoleon and just make some fancy packaging that just adds unnecessary cost to the cigar. It’s insane they awarded him the knights cross just because he used Salassie’s image to sell cigars. Really for the money it’s best to buy from vertically integrated companies like Perdomo , AJ , or Padrón because at least you are not paying for overhead.
I just tried buying cigars from your website. I was in the cart, gave you my credit card info and hit "place order". It then asked me for a username and password. I bounced. You had my money and you threw up obstacles. There are a million cigar websites. A word of advice, don't make it difficult. If I'm trying to give you my money take it.
