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Bought a bundle of Indian Tabac Super Fuerte a few years ago. WORST burn and taste of any cigar I'd ever had. Kept at them, thinking that as they aged they may come around. Never happened. An awful experience that kept on giving.
As for Vegas 5, in general, not great BUT I have enjoyed the Cask Strength Firkins.
Worst ever? Hmmm. CI' LGC knockoff. Metallic and funky tasting. Gurkha's are better tasting than that one
I have yet to consume anything that resembles the autopsy runoff you folks have smoked..... my worst seems to be the ones that leave me a bit 'meh'....
I probably blank out any bad ones or I have a totally undiscerning palate.
Ummm read my dogrocketeathon.... some cigar shaped thkng with a USMC band from a Dominican brown bag sampler. Was like chewing on a fresh cut oine limb.
Had a Macanudo Gold Bar that tasted like sour butter. Blech!
I think people are confusing "disappointing" with "worst" somehow. Everyone has different tastes, so someone, somewhere is going to be disappointed with literally every cigar made. There's someone out there who will think OpusX is blah, even though the majority will appreciate it for a fine cigar. Same with Ligas, high-end Davidoffs, Tats, Anejo, and all other cigars generally accepted as "high end" premiums.
To me the Jericho Hill I smoked was incredibly disappointing. It wasn't "bad" just because it didn't meet expectations. It was still a good cigar, but I wouldn't pay that price point again for it.
Anyway, just felt like griping because I see people using this thread (the same happened on the Puff version, to a greater extent even) to dog on a premium they didn't enjoy as much as everyone else did.
But to get back to the thread, the worst cigar I've ever tried was a Victor Sinclair Connecticut Yankee. My head was pounding after getting about 1/2" in to the thing. And in that 1/2" I needed another relight... I chucked it in the yard where it stayed until the next time I mowed. Apparently the squirrels, possums, raccoons, and whatever else roams my back yard didn't want it either. If my yard starts growing the tobacco leaves they used in that cigar I'm going to be pissed.
Garo Double Habano. When first starting out, I bought a bundle based off of reviews on CI (I know, I know...I said I just started out!) Had one ROTT, tasted like mud. Waited a couple of months, still tasted like mud. Went back a year later, tasted like well rested mud, plus was bitter. The ones that were left went into a fire pit, didn't feel right giving them away.
Whoops! I just noticed that I posted this in the "Wost Cigar" thread. I thought I was posting in the "Didn't Live Up to the Hype" (or whatever) thread. My apologies! This is the only LP9 I've ever smoked and it was a good cigar. A very good cigar even! It's jus tthat my expectations were very high based on all of the raves. I think I like the Undercrown better to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
Tamboril. I can STILL taste that horrid "cigar" and I smoked it back in 1998. It was as though a large cat ate some rotting woodland creature, crapped it out, someone in the DR put a white band on it and sold it in the US. I bought a whole box of them thinking I was scoring some deal. After smoking about half of that turd I went home, opened the box, and took GREAT pleasure in snapping each of the remaining "cigars". Not only snapping them in two but also reducing them to dust. That's how angry I was with that box of cigars. God did they suck sooooooooo bad. That almost turned me off of cigars.....almost.
Toss up between CAO CX2 and Alec Bradley Tempus.
I didn't get past a third of either of these. They were horrible.
RyJ 1875 Bully. I've only tossed maybe three sticks, but none as quickly as I tossed this.
God, it was bad.
About a year ago, a Victor Sinclair 55 Series Red cigarillo. It was like inhaling hot, wet, tar that got so stuck in my lungs I didn't touch another cigar for three days. BTW, I still have nine of 'em left. lol.
Impromptu Holy Grail and the Brickhouse Natural... Ugh
Gurkha Beauty. Literally would not light. Torched the hell out of it and it would not burn.
Hatuey rothschild maduro from their farmers blends. The natural is smokable, but the maduro was just plain foul.
I have to add another that gets praise, but I found to be possibly one of the worst I've ever tried...
JDN Cabinetta. Juan Martinez says it's his go-to smoke, and I love that guy. But to be honest this cigar made my head hurt and tasted like the smoke from burning leaves in your yard. I'd like to try it again and hope it was just a dud, because I absolutely LOVE the Red and the Antano 1970, but wow was that cigar bad.
I agree with this. I got a 10-pack of the Kyotos on cbid for fairly cheap, tried to smoke 2 of them, and gave the rest away. The fire cured campfire/burning leaves taste just isn't for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by D307P
AB Maxx Brazil - the first one I smoked tasted like I burned the entire cigar in my ashtray, and then threw it in my mouth. I just did not enjoy it at all. The second one I smoked, months later, was much better.
5 Vegas Gold maduro - this has been well documented. I don't even know how many times I relit this thing. Tasted horrible by the end of the cigar. I actually enjoy their classic, gold, and high primings lines. Granted, I smoke most of those as yard-gars, but still.
Acid Kuba Kuba - Ick.
My brother in law gave me a sampler of cigars for Christmas a few years back. One was a Big Butt. I let it sit in my humidor for two or three years because I was so afraid to smoke it. That thing was the most horrible, vile thing I have ever tasted. I don't know how I finished it. I don't know why I finished it.
You don't mean inhale as in, into your lungs?Quote:
Originally Posted by TCBSmokes
I agree. It's close, but this stick is my all time icky yuck cigar. (A certain "high end" line is my honorable mention.). Those VS 55s are some shitty tasting cigars. The price is tempting but my one piece of advice to new smokers would be "dont waste your time with Victor Sinclair."Quote:
Originally Posted by TCBSmokes
a CAO coffee i think thats what its called......ISH
This would be a tie between a Big Butt robusto and Lars Tetens Phat Shorty.
The BB was horrible in both taste (metallic ash) and construction (tunneled like a gopher).
The LT was like smoking a bottle of Aqua Velva.
Pirates Gold....kinda tasted like smoking sour milk.
No, I don't inhale, but there was some respiratory irritation and an awful taste I couldn't shake for days. Glad it wasn't my first ever smoke. Lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myfirstandlastname
Nica Libre Potencia. Hands down winner and overall POS. In fact, this cigar gives $hit a bad name. I've had many hideous sticks but it doesn't get much worse than this.
Victor sinclair primeros.
Everything from 5 Vegas.
had a Gurkha Viper once... then I understood
That is truly a classic cigar thread. I made the mistake of purchasing not one but two of those. [emoji87]Quote:
Originally Posted by Will46r
A toss-up between the asbestos-wrapped 5 Vegas Gold Maduro, and the giant cigarette Cohiba Red Dot.
Gurkha trident. Won't stay lit, when it does the burn is awful. Not to mention the awesome flavor of burning cardboard.
I hear they recently got marked down from $500 a box to $8 a fiver though.
I actually like the flavor of the La Finca, but the Corona has a terrible draw.Quote:
Originally Posted by six10
Teehee, I've never tried one, but those things sell like CRAZY!Quote:
Originally Posted by jhedrick83
Mutineer Black Label, it is an extremely rare thing for me to put out a cigar, I always want to give it a chance to redeem itself in the final third...I couldn't make it through this one.
My worst I feel I should give a second chance because they get good reviews, and people seem to like them:
CAO Brazilia
I picked it up at a liquor store along with some Atlantico rum.
The only way I can describe it is sour milk.
I made it half way and gave up because I felt like I fell for a practical joke.
I tried rinsing the taste out of my mouth with listerine, only to get the taste of sour milk and listerine stuck in my mouth.
CAO has come up quite a bit in this thread, myself included.Quote:
Originally Posted by herman
Well I know a lot of people enjoy them. I try to shy away from these threads, because had that cigar been gifted to me, I would have felt like a jerk, but at the same time it's interesting how many varied opinions there are. I'm willing to try again, it may have just been a bad stick sitting in a poor glass display humi.
For me I would have to say it is a toss up between the Macanudo Hyde Park and something out of a glass top box.
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Oh wait I almost forgot about the CAO VR Mural. That was just godawful .
I was also really bummed out by this smoke. I like the Red and 1970 (but not the Dark Corojo). I have a couple left that will probably sit in my humi for a long, long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 04EDGE40
I had the worst cigar I've ever smoked last night. I actually put it down after less than inch it was so bad. The only description I can offer is it tasted like smoking a used diaper. It was gifted to me at a dinner/cigar event at a local winery. The owner of the winery knows nothing about cigars and there was no band. It was a maduro wrapped toro described only as a "Dominican maduro". Decent looking stick, well constructed but yee gawd what a horrible experience.