A cigar is a “moment”. It’s really meant to be enjoyed in one sitting, and most manufacturers create and blend cigars with the clear intention of a beginning, middle and end to the experience. This is often easy to recognize when smoking larger formats like Churchill’s or Torpedo’s where the cigar’s size really has time to develop. Of course we can’t always commit an hour or two to enjoy a great cigar… especially during the Holidays. But there are other options!

Thanksgiving can be a hectic day. It kicks off the end-of-the-year countdown. It can often involve people who you may or may not want to catch up with sitting around a table for hours eating, drinking and fighting… uh I mean talking. And with all of that going on at once, you still have to find time for football. I mean, it’s a lot to handle for a day! So, the perfect cigar for me in dilemmas like this is a short perfecto. The experience of smoking this double tapered format is sort of like adding a few drops of water to a great Scotch Whiskey. Before the water, the aroma is still pleasant and the flavors fine, but when it opens up, its complexity and nuances demand that you take your time and pay attention to it.

The Perfecto format demands that the cigar changes and develops throughout the experience of smoking it with virtually every puff since with each puff the cigar burns down into a wider part of the shape until it begins to taper back again toward the cap. When you first light up a perfecto, its tapered foot is basically the wrapper and binder with very little filler. As you smoke the cigar, and it begins to burn down, the cigar becomes wider and wider gradually introducing more and more filler tobaccos into the flavor. As more filler burns it introduces more flavors. As the cigar gets thicker, it should also get richer and generally help it to remain cool. As long as the shape is changing, it would stand to reason that the flavor should be changing.

Here are some of my favorites. There are certainly countless other Perfectos that we maintain in our inventory from the new Alec Bradley Tempus Majestri, to the Arturo Fuente Work of Art Maduro… they’re all fabulous and interesting! If you don’t see what you’re looking for on our website, then please don’t hesitate to call or email us to inquire!!