Most Prized Cigar In Your Collection?

It was my Upmann Coronas Junior and the two Cohiba Siglo III I had purchased on Spring Break my juior year in high school. Now it is probably the Leon Churchill laying in there from my Senior Spring Break in the Dominican Republic(2006). Got 13 CCs last Thursday and I think my Punch and RyJ Short Churchill box pressed are pretty precious.. but I've smoked 5 and am having the Boli RC right now.. and the Monte #2 and an Edmundo Tubo are allocated for other people. As much as I prize these(its a forbidden fruit syndrome), I'd say there's a reason I can't find the ability to smoke the Leon. Probably when I graduate from MSU.
 
andrewsutherland2002 said:
Yeah, I got a 1950s Blackstone thanks to DBall. Dan is the man. It might be nothing to him, but this stick is sitting in my humi just waiting for the right moment. thanks brother.
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Just getting to read that is awesome... I'm glad you dig it, man! I'd say just smoke it... it certainly doesn't need to be aged. I'm guessing it's out of it's sick period... :r:r

As for me, I have a couple rare smokes that will get lit up at some point, thanks to the generosity of other BOTLs. That's what it's all about, isn't it?

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In 2005, I toured the Partagas Factory in Havana. As we proceeded through the guided tour, my buddy and I lagged in the back of the tour group and whispered to a torcedor if we could buy a stick for a Cuban peso (roughly 1 USD).

The little old lady shrugged her shoulders without looking up and kept on rolling, so I put the peso on her desk and grabbed a freshly rolled stick. As we proceeded through the floor, I did it again and again with different torcedors, until my pockets were stuffed! The tour guide eventually caught on and had us stop.

However, I did make it out with a nice collection of miscellaneous CCs (not to mention the ones I bought at the factory store). I don't exactly know what these are, but they are undoubtedly my most prized cigars. These include several torpedos (they look just like my M2s), several robustos (no idea what they are), and a few that are identical to my Esplendidos.

These are the only CCs I know for 100% that are not fake!
 
maputo said:
Wow how did you happen to come across those sticks if u don't mind me asking?:dr
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The Cohiba Siglo 6 proto was gifted to me by a special friend , (along with Por Larranga with mucho anos from a cabinet of 50 ~ smoked), who has become very close with the factory heads. He kind of traded it to me for some hand-baked Matzoh on Passover.:tu

The Padron was just the first 40th Anni that arrived at my B&M in the limited humidors, and has been sitting my personal humi ever since. This was actually gifted to me as well.

Gifts do make Cigars more precious!!!
 
Mine is a black footed Opus XXX that was supposedly rolled for Carlito. Fuente sent a box down to a CF herf I attended back in 2000. Either way it's an 8 yr old XXX.
 
My most prized cigar(s) in my collection are nothing special or out of the ordinary, but are most prized for sentimental reasons.

A little background info. On my birthday last year, my wife stopped off at the local B&M and told them, "My husband likes maduros. His words exactly. Can you help me out?" They sent her home with with a Perdomo Reserve Maduro, a Brazilia Gol!, a Perdomo Habano Reserve, and a handful of Frescos, which she knew I enjoyed. I desperately wanted to leave them alone for a year and have them on my next birthday (excluding the Frescos), but I only managed about 9 months. They were all awesome smokes, but the Reserve Maduro really stood out to me and I told my wife so.

Fast forward to my 1 year wedding anniversary this past June. My wife gave me (among other non-cigar related gifts) three Perdomo Reserve Maduro belicosos wrapped in a little green ribbon. Awesome.
 
My special 'look but don't touch' selections would be my Padron 40th and 80th anniversary maduro sticks and my 2 year + aged CC Montecristo #2 and Edmundo. I have a camacho liberty from 06 sitting pretty in it's coffin that I guess I would bust out for that special moment. But really, isn't every chance you have to smoke a cigar 'that special moment' ?
 
goldenboy1939 said:
My special 'look but don't touch' selections would be my Padron 40th and 80th anniversary maduro sticks and my 2 year + aged CC Montecristo #2 and Edmundo. I have a camacho liberty from 06 sitting pretty in it's coffin that I guess I would bust out for that special moment. But really, isn't every chance you have to smoke a cigar 'that special moment' ?
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Then quit looking and start smoking! ;) :D
 
An Ashton ESG that my wife gave to me for my first Father's Day this year. It will be smoked on the day my first children, twin girls due in December, are born.

That's my most prized one.
 
No question my most prized cigar is the Mike Ditka Championship Series by Graycliff. I bought it sometime around Super XL and Almost enjoyed it After XLI, but I am saving for when the Chicago Bears win their next Superbowl. I kind of hope it does not sit around aging too long.
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I've got a decent selection of Opus that I'm planning to hold onto until my son graduates college (5 years from now) that are pretty special; but actually, I have a Padron 1926 that Patrick (Mr. Maduro) gave me 2 years ago when I was a flaming newbie. It was an incredibly nice gesture at the time when he gifted me with it and some other great smokes. I ended up sealing it in a glass cigar tube that I got later. Now that I've had it this long, I think I'll just hold onto it in the chance that we might have a smoke together someday. I just can't justify smoking it for any other reason. Oddly enough, I STILL have never tried a '26 - and that one has been in my humi staring at me for 2 years. Is that freakin' weird or what? :tu
 
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