Showing posts with label Ambos Mundos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambos Mundos. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Best $5 Cigar

Best $5 Cigar - I enjoy smoking cigars and do so as much as possible. I hit up my local shop a few times a week, and like smoking with a few beers in the evening. Many afternoons, you can find me riding home from work, cigar lit - fighting traffic. Bottom line...I smoke my share of cigars.
The biggest problem with this habit, aside from cancer - is cost. Cigars are exspenive. Smoking a lot of them can put a dent in your wallet. So, I do what I can...I look for deals online, I frequent tobacco shop events where there are free cigars and speical offers. But the most affective way to save a few bucks, other than quitting cigars, is to smoke affordable cigars.
Buying boxes off the internet is a great way to get premium cigars at a nice "per-stick" price, but I'm a man on the go and have to stop in the local shops to pick up my cigars from time to time.
Also, perusing a well-stocked walk-in humidor; it is the definition of the phrase "kid in a candy-store". The aroma, the possibilites...the pretty labels. Haha.
Recently, it seems that manufacturers are going out of their ways to create cigars that are affordable and of high quality. Usually those terms are independent of one another when it comes to cigars. But 2009 brought those terms together, and it did so with style. $4 and $5 have always been available, but they either burn like a tree-limb or taste like a rolled up paper-bag. Quality cigars, in the sense of near excellence in every aspect of the cigar, have been available as well, but they usually run at least $7 or $8.
Now smokers have choice in the $4-$5 range and that new found option feels great. In my opinion, the best cigars in this price range are the CAO La Traviata, Ambos Mundos, Brickhouse Robusto and the Oliva V Robusto.

Which one is the best?