WORST Cigars youve had.

[ronin]

Well the worst for flavour has to be Guantanamara ive had a couple of Fonseca No 1's recently where the flavour is ok but ive given up with the poor draw quality [too tightly wrapped ?].

Guantanamara's smoke and taste like very old newspaper. Not that I have any experiience with that.

[jdawg]

Gurkha cigars???? Bloody awful the ones I had..

which ones have you had? In general, I find Gurkha to be a decent smoke if you can get them for the right price, not the inflated ones that many sell for.

[tippexx]

Worst ever was a Punch TUBOS. TUBOS what I don't remember. Bought from a tobacconist in Cowes (appropriate) on the Isle of White. Anyway guy must have seen me coming when I walked in and was dithering over buying a cigar. Told me he had a few he wanted to sell off cheap. Anyway I took an RyJ and this Punch. Got it back to where we were holidaying, intending to smoke it with a beer or two after the kids were settled for the night. Came the hour, unscrewed the cap and out fell a load of dust and tobacco bits. This should have been a clue, but no I lit the thing and it when of like a bonfire with bits of wrapper uncurling and burning everywhere. To say the cigar was dry wouldn't have been doing it an injustice .... the fecker was mumified!

Oddly, the RyJ smoked OK. We left for home the next day, so never did get the chance to half-brick a window.

[snooky]

Well the worst for flavour has to be Guantanamara ive had a couple of Fonseca No 1's recently where the flavour is ok but ive given up with the poor draw quality [too tightly wrapped ?].

[cohibaIV]

Gurkha cigars???? Bloody awful the ones I had..

[Big_T_UK]

I am surprised I did not jump into this thread before, I thought I had. I know I have mentioned this before.

Ignoring generic, or "gash" cigars and Jimmeh calls them, I will stick to supposed "name" cigars. Well Jimmeh had read good things about the NC brand Graycliff. There is some provenance to this brand but who cares about that!

We stumbled across two offerings from them. The first we tried was the The Graycliff Ch?teau Grand Cru.



What a load of bo**ocks this smoke is. As I said before it is best described as a fist full of loose tobacco, poor tobacco at that.

To get them out of our humidors we did try the other cigar we purchased from the same brand, the Graycliff Espresso.


For a NC it is not half bad! I have two in my humi at this moment. Not a bad social smoke at all. Well a social smoke for the sort of friend who does not warrant the company of a good Cuban, you know, somebody French.

T.

[misterbulgarin]

the punches ive had have also been tunnelling pieces of shit which fail to stay alight regardless of construction

[Lascaux]

Kind of agree with you Al. Almost every Punch I've ever had has been plugged. I had almost an entire box of 2003 Punch Punch that were plugged as well as a box of 2001 Black Prince. The only Punch DC I've ever had was also plugged. The frustrating thing is that when Punch smoke well they're bloody amazing. I guess I've just been unlucky :-(

yeah, ive had 3 punch punch, one fell apart on me, the other was plugged but the one that was ok was absolutely beautiful. im not ready to give up on punch, am going to maybe grab a box of DC or the robusto extras. the petit punch is brilliant too.

[Simon-JG-hr]

As I've generally been quite selective with what I have bought, I haven't really had any cigars which are bad/unsmokeable. Laying aside the Henri Wintermans (as I think it would be using artistic licence to call them 'real' cigars), then I'd have to say that my worst two cigars were both at this weekend's herf.

One, the Monte Open Regata was the only cigar that I have ever given up on at the half-way stage. It was not nice. I knew it would be mild (which seems to be from whence a lot of the flak it gets comes from), however, it just tasted unpleasant. A real shame, as it was a gorgeous looking cigar, and I'm usually quite keen on light and relatively mild smokes.

The other poor showing was from an NC - a Dunhill Petit Corona. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad cigar at all (I'd probably rate it in the high 70s), it was just a little bit of a disappointment. I will definitely try another Dunhill, for some reason, I just want to love them... maybe it's the British connection, or the wonderful bands... who knows?

[edweb]

Try smoking any cigar after brushing your teeth with a menthol toothpaste & rinsing with an alcohol-based mouthwash, or whilst sitting at the retirement afternoon tea party of your tee-totaller chartered accountant - why one would do any of this is beyond me but it puts the concept of 'worst cigar' somewhat into context.

Under what one could consider normal / usual smoking circumstances the worst cigars I remember were a Toscanelli (besides, I needed to use a foghorn to be found in the house afterwards), a Churchill and a Robusto from Don Tomas or the Toro from Luis Martinez. I could literally feel the skin peeling off my gums.

Oh, and once I had one rather ghastly cherry-flavoured corona from I-don't-know-who on a weekend in Manila, but I was half off my trolley & the girl who gave it to me stayed the night, so, well......

[Lascaux]

torano robusto - more taste to be had out of eating dust

i've had a punch punch explode on me as i cut the end off.
shame they so seem to be ropey as i really loved another one i had.

[daverave999]

I waited till after we had, had the life sucked out of us by the vile things and then I showed him some proper Puros. I think he wanted a very large hole in the ground to open up...!?!

Aw! Perhaps he might investigate the real deal now? You never know...

[cj121]

What country do Don Alvaro hail from HabanoSy?

Curiously enough:

"Don ?lvaro is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain" according to Wiki

[misterbulgarin]

Lol, you should of given him a Punch....cigar!, subtle.

That reminds me, I was thinking about asking people to get my cigars for birthdays/Xmas as a failsafe gift. I always love a cigar gift, almost as much as money. But I was thinking....Ill have to liase with anyone whos pondering on buying me a cigar to make sure they get a good one! Can you imagine a birthday and getting a pack of 5 Guans or hamlets from the local offy.........errr

[Simon-JG-hr]

Two posts in a row you've pipped me to! I see that you did show him a real cigar, as I was sure you would have done.