Cigar Aficionado's Top 25 & Top Bargain Cigars of 2010

Cigar Aficionado has released their rankings/ratings/opinions of cigars for the year 2010. The list includes their top 25 rated cigars of the year, and more interestingly, to me anyway, their top bargain cigars of the year.

If anything, it is interesting to see the cigars CA has rated highly, read a little bit about them and take a mental note of some to try in 2011.

If you're interested, here is the link to Cigar Aficionado's website for their best of 2010.

Our January meeting is this Friday at Alcorn's. See you all then.

-Joe

Jeffro Goes to Hell

January 2011 OCCS Evening

2011 is here and so is the year's first OCCS evening. It will be held on the 14th at Alcorn's on Watson Rd. I'd say to show up at about the normal time (somewhere between 5-6). Dinner will be provided (undecided) and so will the evening's cigar (undecided but will purchase at Alcorn's that evening). Please bring $5-$10 for a card game of sorts (Rummy Royal). I will bring a movie as well in case Jeff quickly takes all of our money.

Looking forward to it-
Joe

Top cigars for 2010

It has been a while since anyone posted and I think I know why. We have all been busy. No excuse, but still, life has a way to creep up on us.

That being said, I can't wait to escape life for a few hours tonight and hang out with the gang and enjoy some cigars. Speaking of enjoying what is everyones top three cigars for 2010?

Mine are:

1. Tatuaje "The Face" - There will be a review in a couple of weeks after I finish my 5th one.

2. Liga Privida T52 - Joe, thank you AGAIN for making that trade with me. Wow, what a great one.

3. My Father Le Bijou - I have only had one of these this year, but it was a memorable one. I smoked it on the way to the funeral home the day after my dad passed. I think I told this story before but the cigar started out great. Fantastic flavor, great burn, but towards the end it just fell apart. The wrapper was cracked, uneven burn, you name it, it went wrong. Everything but the flavor. The flavor stayed true to form and was excellent to the end. Just like my dad, his body (and the body of the cigar) fell apart at the end, but the ESSENCE of the man (and the cigar) stayed true. That was by far the most memorable cigar of the year for me.

Matt

November Meeting Notes

Another great meeting @ Jeffro's ("OCCS remodeled") place. I can't believe that I have not seen "Taken" before--what a great movie! "Splice" was, well, entertaining.

We enjoyed Rocky Patel's Edge, Cecil's pizza & wings, as well as the company of Matt B. and Michael M. We missed you Joe, John, and Rich--hope you are doing well.

Great seeing everyone, and looking forward to December's Meeting.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Adam

OCCS October meeting notes

OCCS MEETING: OCTOBER 22, 2010

Members in attendance: Adam Sherman, Jeff Stein, Matt Hall, Joe Piotrowicz and John Saksa

Place: Alcorn Cigars lounge

Featured cigar: Camacho Corojo Figurado (see review)

Host: Matt

I brought some good pizza and wings from Cecil Whittakers for us to enjoy and we were going to watch the movie Taken with Liam Neeson but we finally found the Blues game and we were able to watch them smoke the Blackhawks (no pun intended - well, maybe a little pun).

Here are a couple of pictures from the night. As you can see, the lounge is pretty nice. They have a full bar and for a Friday night, it was pretty relaxing. All that was missing was our favorite server, Jess.

November OCCS Meeting

Date: Friday, November 19th, 2010
Place: Jeffro's
Cigar: Rocky Patel Edge

I will be bringing pizza and wings.

Looking forward to seeing you there!!

Adam