Partagas " Lusitanias " Cuban

It was a grand evening of good friends and cigars where we unveiled the best of the best for this year.

My Top Cigar of the year comes with 2 new departures for me. It is both a cigar that hails from that little island 90 miles south of Key West and has long been my absolute “ Holy Grail ” of unobtanium.

I never expected to get my hands on this cigar but as I have now come to expect among my fellow brothers of the leaf, seek and ye shall find. If they have a cigar, you have a cigar, and so it was.

And with great pleasure, my best cigar of the year award goes to....

Partagas “ Lusitanias “ Prominente {Double Corona} 2004

The Partagas Lusi is quite simply an outstanding cigar, the King of the Hill of Cuban Prominentes.

The hallmark of this vitola is surely the blending, with distinct and strong flavors which perfectly complement each other. I don’t really have the right words for a nearly 2 hour cigar smoking experience like this one, except it wasn’t long enough.

As a cigar many smokers now including myself, catalogue as the best cigar they have ever smoked. The Partagas Lusitanias certainly deserves its reputation as one of the truly great Cuban cigars.