What is it?

[KillerCelt]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

1) 6) What is it... that makes your "special occasion cigar" so special?
The company I am with when smoking it - that is the first criterion. After that, I will try something that I have been dying to try or something that I have spent a bit more coin on and have been saving for the right occasion. But, I won't smoke it alone. I need to be with others who will enjoy it with me.

I could not agree with this more. I see the cigar as a vehicle to enjoying and appreciating life more not because of its merits in profile or body, but because of the people it brings me into contact with and the life lessons I learn from them. I have had mediocre smokes that I remember in a much better light than some fantasric sticks just because of who I was with and the important things we talked about while we smoked. To me, the encounter dictates who special the cigar becomes. An Opus X smoked whilst playing 18 holes on my own is a good smoke, but the Partagas Black Label I smoked on the deck with my Dad this summer was something truly special (even though it had me spitting like crazy )

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by KillerCelt

I could not agree with this more. I see the cigar as a vehicle to enjoying and appreciating life more not because of its merits in profile or body, but because of the people it brings me into contact with and the life lessons I learn from them. I have had mediocre smokes that I remember in a much better light than some fantasric sticks just because of who I was with and the important things we talked about while we smoked. To me, the encounter dictates who special the cigar becomes. An Opus X smoked whilst playing 18 holes on my own is a good smoke, but the Partagas Black Label I smoked on the deck with my Dad this summer was something truly special (even though it had me spitting like crazy )

Although, I do remember the Monte #2 I smoked with my uncle on the back deck in 1985 (my first Cubans) - they were stellar smokes. Of course, the 100 year old bottle of Napolean brandy that he made us drink with those cigars may mean that my memory of those cigars might be a bit illusionary.