WORST Cigars youve had.

[deltawhisky]

Interesting thread, Mister Bulgarin. Let me lament about some of the worst sticks I have endured, during my earlier years of getting into stogies.

First off - Hav-a-Tampa Jewel. Bought for me by a mate out in Vegas. The wrapper peeled, and it tasted literally, of wrapping paper. Weak. Watery.

Second lamentation - Swisher Sweet. Not swish, not sweet, just cheap & nasty.

Third lamentation - King Edward Invincible. I had four or five of these sticks before I read around the stogie subject, and they nearly put me off for good.

Fourth - Hamlet. In fact, they're not too disastrous, seeming as though supermarket buyers keep stocking up, they're relatively cheap, and cheerful. But comparing them with the real thing, they're a lame duck smoke.

--- Looking forward to reading more no-go's before heading off to stock up on the wish-list in a few weeks' time!

Cheers guys.

[misterbulgarin]

lmao

Oh i forgot about Punch, my few experiences with them have been average at best, granted they were tubos from ASDA, bought for the purpose of a quick smoke with a mate. Really annoying to keep lit and was not fun at all, the flavor was grimey too i recall, ill stick with the Don tomas grand coronas when I go to asda!

[whisky77]

Little bugger.

"Hey, less of the arthritic buddy...

...takes dexterity to do that and this"

That`s him CJ, that`s the little bugger who rolled those terrible Punch Punch.

[ACMCC]

You must have been very unlucky Stevieboy, I've never had a plugged punch - had loads of Punch RS11's, Churchill's, DC's and super selections and not one plugged, had a few plugged San cristobal's and found it improved with age, bad cigars? not really had a bad Cuban (never tried a guantamara though!) had some shit NC's in the state's recently, think one was a maconado, tasted like cardboard no flavour at all (may have been a bit dry) get the feeling I might be able to add to that list when I get to start going through me NC haul...lol

[Stevieboy]

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 :-(

Funny, I've had crap Punch before. In fact, I've never had a good one.

[PoohBore]

Same for me with the Guantanomo bay special. Horrendous cigar !

[snooky]

Well ,R&J, Partagas D4, Some guys have all the bad luck , you can send the rest to me !
My worst smoke has to be Guantenamara yuk, couldnt give it away.

[Boss Hog]

Has to be either a Miami 5 Vegas or a Nestor Miranda, Both NC's and in this case it stands for "Nasty Cigar"

[cohibaIV]

Easy one this.The worst so far this year was the R&J short Churchill.After a couple of good reviews on the forum I purchased a box of ten and they were bloody awfull.Completely one dimensional smoke and thank god i never bought the box of 25.

I would like to think I got a bad box, but I did smoke a few of them and they were all the same.

Worst cigars ever was about 3 Punch Punch I bought on holiday, and again thankfully I did not buy the box of 25.Had pieces of twigs in the filler and the majority of them looked as though they had been rolled by an arthritic chimp.

I myself love the Short Churchill...each to his own tho

[cohibaIV]

Name some of the worst cigar smokes youve had.

Mine has to be a Villiger



These were gastly. Imagine a hamlet cigarillo, englarge it to 38 ring gauge and you have one of these. Yuck, I gave my second one to a mate (to which we collectively condemned it)

The second was a Nat Sherman 1400 series (cant recall the name, the foot was square-ish). Just a lifeless smoke! I seldomly bought another from my local store as it was all they had (that I was willing to buy), again it was just boring, really hard going, kept going out. overall just pooy, glad the shop stopped selling them.

Cohiba Siglo 2

Hold your horses, I love this cigar to death, My cohiba count so far is 19 so Ive had a fair few of em. But ive had one bad experience with a Siglo 2, the cigar was so tight, ridiculously tight, no smoke could even get through, someone at the factory was having a bad day id imagine.

Partagas Serie D No4

This was my first and last (currently) Partagas. This kind of put me off partagas, talk about first impressions. The smoke was really un-fun, hard to draw on, un-fufilling puffs of smoke, slow stupid burn, didnt like it. I hope for Partagas' sake that it was just a one off. I dont dislike partagas, but this first experience havent made buying another a top priority in my cigar experimenting tenure.

What are some of your bad smokes / bad smoking experiences?

Steady...Robusto grew up on them

[cohibaIV]

Fuente Fuente Opus X...Bloody awful, Bland Cigar..Don't beleave the hype

[bnelly]

This was my first and last (currently) Partagas. This kind of put me off partagas, talk about first impressions. T

If Partagas doesn't really appeal to you, I'd strongly recommend the Partagas Serie du Connoisseur, especially the #3. Replaced my beloved and long-gone Party Charlotte. Different profile to the SD4 etc. Try one

[cj121]

Easy one this.The worst so far this year was the R&J short Churchill.After a couple of good reviews on the forum I purchased a box of ten and they were bloody awfull.Completely one dimensional smoke and thank god i never bought the box of 25.

I would like to think I got a bad box, but I did smoke a few of them and they were all the same.

Worst cigars ever was about 3 Punch Punch I bought on holiday, and again thankfully I did not buy the box of 25.Had pieces of twigs in the filler and the majority of them looked as though they had been rolled by an arthritic chimp.

"Hey, less of the arthritic buddy...

...takes dexterity to do that and this"

[bnelly]

Had some pretty bad cigars - including a range of sticks from 1999/2000 which were shockingly poor.

Worst one was probably in LA last year. Local supplier reckoned he could get the unreleased Punch UK RE 2008. Every instinct told me not to touch it, but ...
couldn't help myself. Lit it, warmed it up & was able to completely bend the thing in half - underfilled ? Fake ? Don't know, but only smoked half an inch or so

[Big Al]

Funny, I've had crap Punch before. In fact, I've never had a good one.