Which to start with?

[Curly Cut]

if you've smoked a cigar the past few days, i'd go with the Frog Morton, because you wouldn't be able to taste the Escudo.

i say this because i was a pipe smoker, then smoked cigars almost exclusively for 5 yrs or so. when i came back to pipes, i could only taste pipe tobacco with latakia or orientals until a few months after i had totally stopped smoking cigars.

whenever you do try Escudo for the first time, don't freak out cuz it's in the shape of a large quarter (curly cut/spun cut) instead of ribbon cut. just fold it in half, then rub it gently between in your palms and it'll fall apart into ribbons.