Comments on: Illusione ~mj12~ ‘The Majestic’

By: Bill Hibbler (@BillHibbler)

Bill Hibbler (@BillHibbler) — Tue, 19 May 2015 05:51:11 +0000

I had similar issues with needing to relight the cigar so I asked my friend Chris at Heroes & Legacies here in Austin about it. He suggested removing the foil and waiting at least half an hour before smoking it. The foil has a negative effect. I know that your first MJ12 didn’t have foil but, in my case, I’ve had no problems since letting it breathe before lighting it. Also, the maduro is far superior, imo, than the other two MJ12’s.

Also, I wondered why Illusione put foil on the MJ12 when none of their other cigars have it. It turns out that it’s a tip of the hat to the whole Majestic 12/Roswell Area 51 story behind the name… the tin foil hat people.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:14:05 +0000

Daniel,
Love photography # 3. Good job ! MJ12, decent but not as special as other describe. I take Epernay, MK or CG4 over MJ12 any day. 88, 888 were decent. Need to smoke through other at some point.

By: Tony Casas

Tony Casas — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:52:37 +0000

In reply to czerbe. hahaha, I never said I didn't like the Flyers :) They are one of my top teams actually, just not when they play the Devils. We really have a hell of a lot to make up for and I am just hoping we can get into the swing of things early. As for the Flyers, now that they have good in-goal presence they are going to be one of the teams to be this year. I expect to see them make it VERY far.

By: czerbe

czerbe — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:53:36 +0000

In reply to Tony Casas. Well Tony how do you like them Flyers now!!! hahah Shut out!!!!

By: Dalamscius

Dalamscius — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:54:44 +0000

In reply to Tim. The 88's as your first purchase is definitely a tough act to follow! haha

By: Dalamscius

Dalamscius — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:53:45 +0000

In reply to Tadd. Totally agree with you Tadd! Now that you bring up the Nosotros I still have one left over, I may have to spark it up soon to see if age did anything good for them. ~88~ and ~mk~ are two of my favorite smokes, this vitola just doesn't sell the Illusione line very well.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:50:18 +0000

Illiuaione 88’s are the first boxof cigars I ever bought. Tough to follow up that bar they amset for value/quality!

By: Tadd

Tadd — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:11:56 +0000

Now I am a self procclaimed illusione junkie and of all the vitolas and labels… The -mj12- is my least favorite. I would rather smoke a -nostoros-…. The stick is just too big and muted for mwe to enjoy. I really really love Dion’s work, I just think there is too much filler and it really takes away from the flavors, I smoked one thispast Wednesday and it did burn pretty straight. However I would much rather smoke an -mk- or -88-….Thanks D!

By: jjo

jjo — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:55:59 +0000

In reply to Dalamscius. Yeah, the Ice Wines are a once in a great while thing for me. We make our share of them here, too. I do want to try some of that wine made from apples frozen on the tree if I ever see it. Although I haven't really checked lately, I think that most of the Canadian wines we get here are from the Okanagan due to proximity. Or maybe you guys are drinking up too much of the domestic stock to have enough to export. ;)

By: Dalamscius

Dalamscius — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:38:06 +0000

In reply to jjo.

I thought the foil might be a problem too jjo, but the blind one I had in the Mobster Series didn’t have any foil on it and it was sitting in my humi for a few weeks. The results were the same so I guess it didn’t have any bearing on the end results.

I’ve had a few Washington wines and some are very good, but I like to support my locals :). The Ice Wines are good but you can only have so much of them, super sweet. Try and find some Niagara wines if you can, they are very good.

Thanks again Jeff!

By: Tony Casas

Tony Casas — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:36:25 +0000

In reply to Dalamscius. Haha they had the best second half of the season then any team! Plus, parise is back! Plus, from dead last to a hair away from making the playoffs? They did good :)

By: blane

blane — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:13:30 +0000

In reply to jjo. Brooks from Smoking stogie will be on Kiss my ash radio saturday morning at 10 am.I cant wait to hear the show.

By: jjo

jjo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:45:41 +0000

Hmm. Humidity issue? Maybe that foil wrapper isn’t allowing the cigar to breathe properly? Whatever it is, it doesn’t sound like much fun.

Too bad we don’t get much in the way of Canadian wines here. Protectionism for Washington state wineries, I guess. About all you see are ice wines.

Solid honest review, Daniel.

By: Dalamscius

Dalamscius — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:54:52 +0000

In reply to czerbe.

Thanks Czerbe, glad I’m not the only one with this problem.
As for your team, I’m gonna have to side with tony here. Pittsburgh is my team and Philly is a long-time rival! Devils, meh. We’ll see how far they get this year. What place did they finish in last year Tony? Can you remind me? That’s right…

By: Tony Casas

Tony Casas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:35:15 +0000

In reply to czerbe.

GO FLYERS?!?! GO…FLYERS?!?!?! coughcough GO DEVILS!!!!! hahah sorry man I’m a huge hockey fan and even a bigger Devils fan (hockey fan in the desert, yes I know, strange). I actually like the Flyers a lot too. Just not tomorrow ;p It’ll be a good game though. The Flyers look VERY good this year, and I am just hoping we can do more damage then the crappy year my Devils had last year. PS. Daniel is a Pens fan. He thinks Cindy Crosby is “dreamy”.