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Recommendations based on Fuente 8-5-8 and La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor

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This seems like excellent advice. Thanks! Any sites you suggest for these flavor profiles? I wanna check them out.
Start by taking notes on what you think you like when you you smoke using some of these tools

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/articles/learning-your-abcs-cigars-101-7814

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/articles/learning-your-abcs-cigars-101-part-ii-7803

https://www.famous-smoke.com/cigar-flavor-wheel

Cigar Master Blenders, are responsible to build the recipe of building the cigar for the rollers. It’s leaf, amount, placement in the cigar, binder and filler. The blender has to also be able to know when the leaves where and were grown, how and where they were dried, aged and fermented, plus predict how time will impact the flavor in years to come. You buy a box of cigars and they will be around for awhile the new cigar needs to be good as well as the last one of the box.
 
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I have a few more suggestions that I had written up before but I added a few points. Here goes....

1. Education, Google Cigar topics and read, go to Cigar shops and talk, especially in shops that have lounges. Buy a cigar, light up and start a conversation with someone. There is no way for an answer to a question on some Cigar forum answered by some yahoo dude or dudette, that is going to make you knowledgeable. You have to self-educate. Forums operate on the 80-20 rule, only it’s inverted from the norm. One should always assume that info from a forum, at best, only 20% of what you read has any grain of truth in it and the other 80% is pure BS.

2. We have a few BOTL members who contribute and are part of their leadership of Cigar site called, Blind Man’s Puff, https://blindmanspuff.com/wp-content/cache/all/index YouTube Channel - https://m.youtube.com/user/blindmanspuffcigar

3. Search Facebook for local Cigar HERFs and HERF Clubs. Some HERFs operate like a Cigar Pot Luck. Everyone brings a few cigars they like and everyone lays them out and you can smoke your own or try something different.

4. You can get a free subscription to Cigar Aficionado magazine by taking one or two surveys at this site. https://www.rewardsurvey.com/Partner/SaySoOneDollarFifty9. It is legit. Take a survey and get some points. Then you can subscribe to Cigar Aficionado using the points. There are other mags available there too so you may want to do a few surveys and get more points for more mags.

5. A lot of cigar news is published on https://halfwheel.com and on their YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCigarFeed

6. Humidification is another important subject. There are a lot of myths and legends built around humidification which is ironic because humidification is a science without any subjectivity. As a science, it can be learned. I have become a Boveda fanboy because they removed the voodoo and are focused at making it understandable. I suggest subscribing to their YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/bovedainc They have some great information and cigar infotainment. One of their recent Cigar infotainment videos if with the guys at Roma Craft cigars. It is very informative about the process of making great premium cigars at reasonable prices. They talk about taste and blending without all the romantic BS of marketing.

7. When you know what you want to buy, always consider buying from your local B&M because they are vital to wellbeing of the Cigar industry. If you can’t buy local make sure you look at the shops that provide discounts to BOTL members. Work with the people who help fund BOTL. The discounts range between 10% and 17% depending on the site. If you are going to buy, you might as well get a discount. Some restrictions apply.
 
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Start by taking notes on what you think you like when you you smoke using some of these tools

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/articles/learning-your-abcs-cigars-101-7814

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/articles/learning-your-abcs-cigars-101-part-ii-7803

https://www.famous-smoke.com/cigar-flavor-wheel

Cigar Master Blenders, are responsible to build the recipe of building the cigar for the rollers. It’s leaf, amount, placement in the cigar, binder and filler. The blender has to also be able to know when the leaves where and were grown, how and where they were dried, aged and fermented, plus predict how time will impact the flavor in years to come. You buy a box of cigars and they will be around for awhile the new cigar needs to be good as well as the last one of the box.
I have a few more suggestions that I had written up before but I added a few points. Here goes....

1. Education, Google Cigar topics and read, go to Cigar shops and talk, especially in shops that have lounges. Buy a cigar, light up and start a conversation with someone. There is no way for an answer to a question on some Cigar forum answered by some yahoo dude or dudette, that is going to make you knowledgeable. You have to self-educate. Forums operate on the 80-20 rule, only it’s inverted from the norm. One should always assume that info from a forum, at best, only 20% of what you read has any grain of truth in it and the other 80% is pure BS.

2. We have a few BOTL members who contribute and are part of their leadership of Cigar site called, Blind Man’s Puff, https://blindmanspuff.com/wp-content/cache/all/index YouTube Channel - https://m.youtube.com/user/blindmanspuffcigar

3. Search Facebook for local Cigar HERFs and HERF Clubs. Some HERFs operate like a Cigar Pot Luck. Everyone brings a few cigars they like and everyone lays them out and you can smoke your own or try something different.

4. You can get a free subscription to Cigar Aficionado magazine by taking one or two surveys at this site. https://www.rewardsurvey.com/Partner/SaySoOneDollarFifty9. It is legit. Take a survey and get some points. Then you can subscribe to Cigar Aficionado using the points. There are other mags available there too so you may want to do a few surveys and get more points for more mags.

5. A lot of cigar news is published on https://halfwheel.com and on their YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCigarFeed

6. Humidification is another important subject. There are a lot of myths and legends built around humidification which is ironic because humidification is a science without any subjectivity. As a science, it can be learned. I have become a Boveda fanboy because they removed the voodoo and are focused at making it understandable. I suggest subscribing to their YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/bovedainc They have some great information and cigar infotainment. One of their recent Cigar infotainment videos if with the guys at Roma Craft cigars. It is very informative about the process of making great premium cigars at reasonable prices. They talk about taste and blending without all the romantic BS of marketing.

7. When you know what you want to buy, always consider buying from your local B&M because they are vital to wellbeing of the Cigar industry. If you can’t buy local make sure you look at the shops that provide discounts to BOTL members. Work with the people who help fund BOTL. The discounts range between 10% and 17% depending on the site. If you are going to buy, you might as well get a discount. Some restrictions apply.
Great info here @WatchmanUSA !
Wes @Pennywise827 - get in here and read through these 2 posts brother!
 

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If you like the Mi Amor, I would try the following:

Oliva V Melania maduro
MUWAT baitfish or +11
Crowned Heads Jericho Hill
Undercrown corona Viva
 
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On the cigar infotainment front, “There are only 3 “Master (cigar) Blenders” in the World according to Skip” (at Roma Craft).
 

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Fuente 858 Rosados are hitting the shops.
Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t found a place to get a box, but going to check a local B&M this evening.

Looks like a couple online retailers have the 858 sungrown back in stock, too. Gonna have to wait until the end of the month to swoop, though.
 
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Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t found a place to get a box, but going to check a local B&M this evening.

Looks like a couple online retailers have the 858 sungrown back in stock, too. Gonna have to wait until the end of the month to swoop, though.
The Rosados are going to be very hard to find. They are getting swooped up as soon as they land at the retailers. Good luck, I hope we both get a few.
 

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The Rosados are going to be very hard to find. They are getting swooped up as soon as they land at the retailers. Good luck, I hope we both get a few.
Think they’ll hit any online retailers or is it just a B&M game?
 
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Think they’ll hit any online retailers or is it just a B&M game?
I am sure the online retailers will get some, but that doesn't mean they will put them on their website. You might call your local B&M and ask about them and even call the big boys online and inquire. I wouldn't wait at this point. Many retailers who have gotten them have jacked their price up the same way they do Opus and other limited HTF cigars, so beware.
 
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