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The Very First Post

The hunt for the perfect cigar.

This last year I have discovered the pleasure of taking the time to smoke a cigar.  I imagine I will go into all the nuances that have made it such a pleasurable experience in my future musings, but since this is the very first post I wanted to sort of lay down my purpose for this in the first place.

I've tried a broad selection of cigars bought from local shops and online stores, buying those names that I recognized from recent forum chatter or choosing them based on cool label design or perceived rarity.  Needless to say I was all over the place - no idea about what anything meant Agnorosa, Ligero, Nicaraguan, Dominican - and the results were as expected all over the map.

I found some I preferred more than others - but sadly the one thing I really 'learned' in these months, is that I can tell there is almost a plateau-like difference between normal cigars and WOW that's a good cigar.  Much like wine, price can point you in the right direction -- much like wine, price is the stupidest thing to use as your vector because there are a billion flavors.  That said, the bitter reality is that finding magic without a high price-tag would take skill and knowledge and probably patience and palette that I lack. 

I certainly lack the vocabulary that some of these folks who rate cigars use.  I'm not sure if I want to adopt what they use or if "comforting old sock" will be good enough for the future.  

This blog will hopefully help me start sorting this stuff out, I tend to take on tasks sort of methodically when I do it this way.  I honestly have no idea where to start, obviously I'll spend a little time getting some format to the site going and start posting some images, but I figured I'd get the very first post out the way and get going.

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