Great Moments in Gars #4: The First Box (March 2005)
Posted by Uncle Moneybag$ on 11 May 2006 at 12:03 am | Tagged as: Great Moments
By March of 2005, having tried about 20 different gars, I was finally ready to order my first box. I settled on the Sancho Panza Extra Fuerte Barcelona (6.5×48). (Back then I often incorrectly referred to these as “Pancho Sanzas”.) With a silky wrapper and a nifty box press, this gar had consistently satisfied my newborn pallet, and I was about to reward its maker.
I received the box about a week after ordering it from JR Cigars. Although it smelled a bit like paint thinner, the gars inside looked great. And at $50.00 for 20 gars, my wallet was happy too. So much so that I pretty much smoked the entire box before I spent any money on anything else. This turned out to be a mistake. After about 15 of these gars in a row, I grew tired of them. I didn’t even smoke the last one until a few months ago. Today, I’m only interested in these gars for nostalgia purposes.
Regardless, there is something great about your first box of gars. I have ordered about 60 boxes since, but I still keep my first box of Panzas in plain sight, if only to remind me of a simpler time–when a box of Panzas was all I needed to keep a smile on my face.
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