haha Lou, glad to see you up and at it again! My only guess is that this box was sitting at the shop or in a warehouse for awhile, maybe it had some extra age. I’m guessing there’s no date on the bottom of the box?
It was definitely tasty though so thanks for hooking me up! If you haven’t tried to Blue Label yet, keep your eyes open for it. another great DPG cigar.

Customs isn’t too fond of stuff like that, probably won’t get through. There are a lot of WA wines up here and they have been pretty good from what I’ve had so far. If you have any recommendations let me know and I can check if they are available

Hmm, I’m going to have to figure out a way to get some WA state beers and/or wines to you.

The Blue Label is tasty too but I think this one might have had a slight edge on it. I’ve had a couple of the larger vitolas and I think the smaller ones suited this blend better, robusto being a tasty medium sized option.
We get some American brews up here but surprisingly few, and usually just the crappy large-corporate beers which I don’t really bother with

Another great write up, but don’t you guys get any good ole Amurrikan beers there? 😉

My pleasure. Will bookmark and try to remember to follow up.

I can honestly say there was almost no pepper on this one but I do remember getting it on some other of the Cuban Classic’s I had. It’s possible it had some age, we’ll have to find out from Lou when he picked up this box of them. If this is how they age then they are definitely worth keeping around for awhile!

And ya, sad about the forum. Met lots of good people there 🙁

I agree with Dave, all the ones I have had carry TONS of pepper. Never thought about aging this one.

BTW, sad to see that our forum is now gone.

— ChiDave

Good catch pacman! I actually forgot the apostrophe, meant to say “son’s”. Only Janny and Jaime as far as I know for his kids 😉 Very cool that you had a chance to meet him and Jaime! and more than once to boot!

I had the 2003 not long ago, was an interesting smoke! Let us know what you think when you have a chance to light it up!

Thanks for sharing the stories!

IIRC, this was 2003. He picked up one of this same line of cigar in a small vitola, clipped the head with his thumbnail, torched it and handed it to me. Very pleasant man, pleasant chat. In the same trip through Little Havana, I stumbled across another tiny shop by the name of El Titan de Bronze, kitty-corner to El Credito, which was a couple doors down the street from DP’s place. Picked up a few good cigars at ETdB, which almost no one outside of Miami seemed to have heard of back then (they are now making Padilla’s new Miami, among other sticks), and later ended up buying four boxes of my favorite of their blends, the Sungrown Redemption churchills. Love ’em.

Won’t bore you with other DP stories, but one last quick one…after Cigarfest in Bethlehem, PA in 2008, I stopped at Holt’s in Philly on my way out of town. Had picked up several singles I had been wanting to try. Turned around, and standing behind me was DP, just three days after I had last seen him at Cigarfest. Small world.

But I digress…badly. 🙂 Oh…still have a Tatuaje Miami Cojonu 2003 from the first DP contact, saving it for a special occasion, even though I have several cigars that cost more $.