Fancy names and higher price tags don't make a good cigar, and this is especially true for each individuial's tastes. Asking someone to tell you what you like is like asking someone to pick your fav color or food. If you want a "GREAT" cigar for an important event or a celebration, stick with the tried and true and what works best for you. No one knows your tastes as well as you do.
No, but price, reputation and rareity can distinguish between a good cigar and a special cigar, and a special cigar makes for a special event. Nobody here's favorite color is Puke Green and nobody's favorite food is tofu. So, if were arguing over NY Strip or T bone I agree on personal taste, but there are a lot of things that make a steak special besides how good it is. I went with a bud who’s about to deploy to Iraq to his favorite steakhouse for a special dinner. I think I could have made a better a steak on my grill at home, but it wouldn’t of been special, we do that all the time. In this case, driving a stupid distance to pay a stupid price for a good steak made it a special event.
For my 40th birthday bash I put together a selection of cigars that was crazy, and we smoked a wide selection of good to great cigars that weekend. The cigars that we talk about the most are the very old 1930’s Royalist Clear Havana and a Forbidden X cigar in the bottle. Both were good to great, and I’ll probably never get to have another in my life. I don't find myself telling people about the GOF, 100 Anos, RyJ #4 or MC#2 I had, they were all great, but not as special. I agree with the mantra of smoke what you like, like what you smoke, but I have a whole different outlook when it comes to special events and I seek out something as memorable as it is good.
