Forgotten Cigars

[Merovius]

Well, in fairness I was hardly on last week and I'm honestly good to remember what day it is right now! Viaje is another good one. I never really got into them but I would be curious to see if some of the guys used to love Viaje and have moved on and why.

I used to smoke the Seleccion Privada Maduros. Burned through quite a few fresh but they just didnt hold up over time. Ive had the BV500, Achilles Hero, Cafe Noir 54, Reserva Limitada Cafe 52 maybe some others. All kind of fell into average and unremarkable territory, not bad cigars just better out there imo. Iirc @D37P (sp?) used to smoke the BV500s like it was his job. The Achilles Hero is probably the most "Cubanesque" nicaraguan Ive had, for w/e thats worth.

I smoke my fair share of Viaje and I think Andre is still putting out some good stuff. He had a problem with Eduardo Pujals and moved production from Raíces Cubanas last year so there has been a bit of an exodus with his fans. For new smokers, Viaje is incredibly confusing and confounding. Its all mostly small batch stuff and Farkas has been known to "have fun" with the blends, doing stuff that comes up in conversation at cigar bars ala the Stuffed Turkey, Holiday, Throwdown etc. Some are hits, some are misses. When he first came on the scene he scored high in publications so a lot of small minded folk hoarded his stuff, his scores have been dropping consistently so now people are unloading but last years C4 and Zombie shots were really good. One mans trash...I still buy his stuff and enjoy the F&F, S&B, Oro, Zombies (shots and greens), Exclusivos and C4.

I feel like RoMaCraft might be the next forgotten brand.

[Cardinal]

I smoke my fair share of Viaje and I think Andre is still putting out some good stuff. He had a problem with Eduardo Pujals and moved production from Raíces Cubanas last year so there has been a bit of an exodus with his fans. For new smokers, Viaje is incredibly confusing and confounding. Its all mostly small batch stuff and Farkas has been known to "have fun" with the blends, doing stuff that comes up in conversation at cigar bars ala the Stuffed Turkey, Holiday, Throwdown etc. Some are hits, some are misses. When he first came on the scene he scored high in publications so a lot of small minded folk hoarded his stuff, his scores have been dropping consistently so now people are unloading but last years C4 and Zombie shots were really good. One mans trash...I still buy his stuff and enjoy the F&F, S&B, Oro, Zombies (shots and greens), Exclusivos and C4.

Good points on Viaje. I think my first 2 might have actually come from you in that "newb" (haha) trade, a Hangtime something something (Spring Harvest?) and an Oro...or Platino...I don't know. They were both really good though, I do remember that. I can't complain about the flavor or quality of anything from them, except a red labeled one I had at a B&M that I thought was smokeable but slightly below average a year or two back.

I could see you being right on RoMa too, but that might just be me projecting again like I did with the Viaje LE thing. I've never had a bad RoMa Craft, but I typically haven't been blown away either.