Great Moments in Gars #2: “How We Found the Holy Grail” or “The Lancelot 1066″ (April 2005)
Posted by Uncle Moneybag$ on 07 May 2006 at 09:58 pm | Tagged as: Great Moments
Like most people, when my brother and I were getting started with gars, we didn’t buy them online, in part because we didn’t know enough to risk buying a whole box of any one gar. Our solution: go to the local cigar shop Vendomes and try every kind of gar that was at least midly appealing and not outrageously expensive. We were into the bigger gars then. If you’re going to spend $7 for a robusto, then $8-9 for a “Presidente”-sized cigar is just good economics.
Enter the 1066 Excaliber Lancelot by Hoyo de Monterrey. At 7.25 inches and a 54 ring guage, this mammoth “Cammie” would hold us over for a least an hour, we thought, and for only nine bucks. Add to that the alluring box and attractive copperish band and we were sold. Turns out we loved the flavor even more. So much so that this was our favorite cigar for a short time. We even drove back to Vendome that very night and bought additional 1066 gars to smoke. Since that time, I’ve purchased two boxes of “Merlins” (5.25 x 50) and split a box of “Galahads” (6.75 x 47).
Today, we’ve outgrown these gars and moved on to more sophisticated sticks. But I haven’t forgotten about the 1066s. In fact, I keep two in my humidor, just in case my brother drops by and we want to re-live a truly classic gar moment.
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