victor sinclair 55

IMO stay away from VS!!

we should have the victor sinclair conversation.... ive been dying to know.

Aj

I guess that's why they make more than one cigar. There are a couple, not all, of the VS that I do like. I guess it's just a matter of taste. People rave over the ACID cigars and all I can taste is a very cloying clove flavor, and I hate cloves!

Also, and please don't throw stones, I like some of the Gurkhas!

Does everybody remember Vision aka Pete from Mass? He texted me that he smoked one a few months back ....... I haven't heard from him in a while and haven't seen him on the forums in a while ...... Coincidence or The VS Curse ??????

On my first CCOM purchase, I fell for the....add this 12 vs sampler for 19.99! I paid 19.00 too much!! Out of the 12, 1 was smokeable, and I don't wanna try to remember which one!

wwhwang:

dr_frankenstein56:

so are VS bad or what? Ive never actually had one, but from the beginning of this hobby ive always been told to avoid VS... are these things worse then Gurkas? like rolled dog droppings?

Aj

From what I heard, Victor Sinclair has been a producer of dog rockets ever since the cigar boom in the 1990s. Other stories like painting their maduros and not aging their tobacco in the 90s are commonplace as well.

Thats what i was looking for.... my suspicions were true then... how sad.

I was just hoping maybe it was a Harbor Frieght story... Sometimes you get lucky with them. But not this time!

Aj

A cigar that should never have been made or sold.

I like to quote Mark Twain when this subject comes up. As a reminder:

Courtesy of Cigar Aficionado
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Samuel-Clemens-and-His-Cigars_6042/p/2

Clemens was not just an "excessive smoker;" his cigar habit shocked most who came in contact with him. His taste in cigars was, well, odd. Some reports said that he would buy Havanas when he could afford them, even though he once wrote, "Nearly any cigar will do me, except a Havana." He sampled the better cigars available in those days, but seemed unsatisfied. So, the story goes, he found a New York tobacconist, whom he insisted provide him with his worst cigar. He was delighted.

"No one can tell me what is a good cigar—for me," Twain wrote in "Concerning Tobacco," an essay published in the early 1890s. "I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house. They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box.

When I first started i bought some VS. After one I saved the rest to give to my non- cigar smoking but cigar mooching friends.

As I said earlier, that's why they make a lot different cigars for different tastes. I don't smoke a lot of VS, but I can be the only one keeping them in business. Someone else has to be buying those suckers!