Hello, Eric. We got to know each other a bit during the BOTL sponsored DE Cigar Safair in Nica last month.
I've been studying and smoking premium cigars for 39 years and have had access to fine Habanos for nearly that long. I confess that my workdefending high profile criminal cases and family time with my wife and three young daughters hasn't left me a lot of time to be a heavily posting fellow. But I do strongly feel I would be a valuable contributer to the Habanos Forum community.
I have traveled to Cuba and once spent 8 days just in Havana just checking out the more rare and finer cigars, without regard to whether they are heavily hyped. I have been collecting, aging, and smoking and studying Habanos for many, many years.
In an effort to demonstrate my devotion to Habanos (as much as my devotion to Non-CC's I'm responding to a thread started by Brooks to list our CC booty, here's mine:
1) 5 pack of Partagas Londres Extra (1998)
2) One Cohiba Sublimes Edicion Limitada (June 2004)
3) H. Upmann Magnum 46 (April '05)
4) Cohiba Siglo IV (March '06)
5)Cohiba Robustos (May '06)
6)Trinidad Robustos Extra (June '06)
7)Montecristo #2's (June '06)
8)One Juan Lopez #2 (May '07)
9) Ramon Allones Robustos (June '7)
10)Box of Trinidad Ingenios Edicion Linitada (Oct. '07)
11)Box of Vegas Robainas Maestros Regional Edition for Espana (Nov.. '07)
12)One Bolivar Royal Corona (April '08)
13)San Cristobal de la Habana Oficios (June '08)
14)Hoyo De Monterey Epicure #1 (June '08)
15)Box of Ramon Allones Grandes Regional Edition for Espana (Aug. '08)
16) Romeo & Julieta Coronas (Sept. '08)
17) Cohiba Genio Maduro 5's (Sept. '08)
18)Festival Del Habanos 2008 Commemorative Box w/Cohiba Siglo VI, another Cohiba Genios Maduro, Montecristo Edmundo, Trinidad Robusto Extra, H. Upmann Magnum 50, Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill, another Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure Especial, Partagas Serie P, #2, San Cristobal de la Habana Mercaderes, & a Cuaba Generosas petite perfecto (2008?)
19) One La Gloria Cubana Taino (Oct. '08)
20) More Montecristo #2's (Oct. '09)
21) Rey Del Mundo Choix Supremes (Dec. '09)
22)Another San Cristo de La Habana Mercaderes (May '10)
23)Box of Trinidad Short Robusto T Habanos Edicion Limitada (June 2010)
24) Cohiba Siglo VI Tubo (July '10
25) More Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure Especials (Sept. '10)
26)Cohiba Siglo III (Sept. '10)
27)Box of Montecristo Grand Edmundo Edicion Limitadas (Nov. '10)
28)Box of Partagas Serie D Especial Edicion Limidatas (Dec. '10)
29) Montecristo Edmundo (Jan. '11)
30)Six Montecristo #4's (Jan. '11)
31)One Cuaba Salamones (Feb. '11)
32)Box of Bolivar Belicosos Finos, Cabinet Selection (March '11)
33)Box Hoyo de Monterrey Short Hoyo Piramides Edicion Limitadas (May '11)
34)Box of Vegas Robainas Unicos (June '11)
35) 3 Cohiba 1966 (June '11)
36)Box of Behike BHK 52 (July '11)
37) 3 Behike BHK 56 (July '11)
38)Cohiba Magico Maduro 5 (July '11)
39)More Partagas Serie P #2's (Oct. 11)
40) Box of Por Larranaga Legendarios Regional Edition por Espana (Nov. '11)
41)Cohiba Piramides Extras (July '12)
So, is there anything else you suggest I can do to boost my chances of being. Invited to join the Habanos Forum? Please let me know. Thanks.