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Back in August I launched this thread: http://www.botl.org/threads/stash.87687/ to discuss stash plans. Here six months later, my stashed boxes are coming ripe in rotation as the plan begins to bear fruit. Today, I unwrapped the Stash of the Month -- these here Sopowa Ovals:

I like the bands. It's an oval pic of Sopowa, my Indian Scout, up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Blend is a half leaf each of LO Honduran seco, viso, and ligero, with a half WLT criollo seco, a Nic binder from LO, and an H2K wrapper from WLT. Hard to stuff that much into one wee fecto. This was back when I was stuffing the center of the fecto extra full, then letting the stick swell out in the middle after it was removed from the mold. Makes a more oval shape. This was the less than optimal batch of H2K which Don got a while back. Tasty, sure -- but rougher in texture and less flammable. We'll see what some time may have done to improve the burn.

I figure I can easily run thru a stash a month. I do smoke too many store boughts I admit. I have too large a supply of them. People keep me cigars. I really am getting to prefer my own stash, tho, cause I can rely on my own, whereas it seems like at least half the store boughts I smoke are gack-worthy. If I could get off the store boughts, I'd prolly run thru two stashed boxes; but then I'd feel like a piker when it comes time to give sticks away.

Hope to finish off two more stash-worthy boxes here this weekend. One just needs a mold full of fectos, where the other just needs a mold full of bustos.

So the purpose of this thread is, show off what ripened stash you're cracking into.
 
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Anything on this box of smokes yet?
Which box?

I've been cracking about a box a month all year so far. Oddly, I just this morning cracked a second box of these Ovals, made last November, in order to gift a fellow I met at the cigar lounge in Lancaster this last Saturday. They are damn good. Always great fun when you break into something you cached long ago.

But this thread never took off... It was for sharing who is crackin what stash today. If I remember, I'll snap pics of the stashes currently under weigh at home tonight.
 
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But this thread never took off... It was for sharing who is crackin what stash today. If I remember, I'll snap pics of the stashes currently under weigh at home tonight.
I'd love to add here but haven't built up a stash to crack open.
I know, just roll more than you smoke. I must be a slow roller. I think I'll buy a stash to smoke while letting my home rolls rest and try to roll more. I don't know how you guys do it all.
@webmost , I think this tread's a good idea. It would be cool to see what kind of rotation people go through over the year.
 
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This one because, it has the y2k that you were disappointed with. I'm wondering if it got any better.
Nope. Still not a burner. Tastes fine, but not much burny. Nor did it improve when deluxestogie fermented it. That removed it's raisin odor, but did not alter the burn.

It's just not so flammable.

On the other hand, I enclosed a core of that H2k inside Dom volado last April, with a Jorge binder and a Nic wrapper ... and they came out real good! Just cracked into the stash of 'em day before yesterday. Remix smoked one.

No, I just have not found an H2k which measures up to the batch Don sold at WLT a couple years ago.
 
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Nope. Still not a burner. Tastes fine, but not much burny. Nor did it improve when deluxestogie fermented it. That removed it's raisin odor, but did not alter the burn.

It's just not so flammable.

On the other hand, I enclosed a core of that H2k inside Dom volado last April, with a Jorge binder and a Nic wrapper ... and they came out real good! Just cracked into the stash of 'em day before yesterday. Remix smoked one.

No, I just have not found an H2k which measures up to the batch Don sold at WLT a couple years ago.
I see.
 
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This is a fine cigar
Mild with really nice cedar notes and a long finish. It's got more power than I anticipated

Can you tell me about the blend?

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That's not mine. Mine are the perfectos I sent. The others are other botl's rolls I have collected over the years. So, no, can't tell you what's in it. Ask the maker.
 
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I'll look when I get home.
What gives it the nice long ceaderish finish?


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While each component of a blend is important, each part working together is what makes the whole thing work. If that is the blend I think it is, the real star of the show is the wrapper. I couldn't tell the ring gauge by the picture, but the smaller the ring gauge, the more concentrated the wrapper flavors will be. I know the label said habano, and typically I use LO Ecuadorian Habano Ligero as that is my personal favorite habano wrapper.
 

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While each component of a blend is important, each part working together is what makes the whole thing work. If that is the blend I think it is, the real star of the show is the wrapper. I couldn't tell the ring gauge by the picture, but the smaller the ring gauge, the more concentrated the wrapper flavors will be. I know the label said habano, and typically I use LO Ecuadorian Habano Ligero as that is my personal favorite habano wrapper.


Smoking this one now. It's really nice.





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