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We've all seen the "what's the best" polls before, so I figured I'd post a what's the worst maker of handmade cigars. I mean ones that you've tried a few different ones and you wouldn't smoke one on a bet now.

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It was going to be a tough decision until I saw Thompson's house blends.
Some of the others are bland and tasteless, but the house blends reek.

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Looks like a dog rocket thread.:r

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The worst cigar I ever smoked, by a longshot, was an original release Padilla Miami.

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My worst was an Old Henry from Holts. I bought a 5er and they reeked of ammonia more than any other cigar I've ever had the displeasure of smoking. I know they have their fans and it was probably just a bad batch. But, the memory is so strong I will never touch them again. (I like many other DPG sticks):confused:

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I like em OK when I get them on a deal.

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Puros Indios, Ronaldo Reyes and it isn't even close. :pu

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I had a pretty poor Nat Sherman, but that might not have been the cigars fault, could have been the conditions of storage. I have had a few of the TC house blends, yuck!

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Puros indios are terrible, but not much is worse than a Thompson house brand.

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Hands down...a Lars Teten Gorilla Finger. Even the Cremosa tasted like a top notch stick compared to the finger. :td :td

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:r

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I can agree with that!

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Cremosa Cubana.
Tamboril.
Gurkha Viper.

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Never bought from thompsons. Still somehow made their damn mailing list for catalogs though.

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Hands down the worst cigar (with the most accurate name ever) is the Acid (Red Line) Nasty. :pu

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Blue label B2 and Torano 1916.

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Gurkha doble maduro

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And I actually enjoy those.

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I tossed a highly rated Liga Privda but it wasn't the worst I've had. I just don't remember the worst. A Gurkha Ancient Warrior was flavorless but that's not the worst a cigar can be. The fishy, sour milk of a Tamboril is pretty bad.

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There is no escaping the thompsons mailing list...

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Most of the Bay Area brothers have had the opportunity to sample the Cremosa Cubana. The fortunate ones got the taste of wet, stale cardboard. The unfortunate got the taste of dead fish. :banger

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And let's not forget the cigar that was so bad it made Mike go blind in one eye. A Matacan maduro I believe it was. :tu

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Victor Sinclairs are freaking horrendous, but the worst cigar I've had is the Perdomo Immenso. I was up puking all night after smoking one.

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I don't know; there's a lord's plenty of bad cigars out there. Once you go below a certain level, it's just worsening degrees of awful.

I had a few unfortunate puffs of a Puros Indios once. Once. Not the very worst, but damn close.

Any Gurkha fits the bill, IMO. But especially any of the ones called "double" anything.

I had a Camacho at the Big Smoke in Vegas in '05, and it was so dry it literally fell apart in my hand while I smoked it; the fault lay with whatever rep brought them to the show to give away and didn't sample them nor do any QC.

Many more but, thankfully, I can't recall. Not too many, though; I mainly stick with good brands.

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The Buccanero, that was in the Shack PPPP this year, far and away the worst cigar evvahhhhh!

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Thompson's, hands dpwn! Back when I didn't know any better, I fell for their slick nonsense in their catalogs.... :sh

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Of the ones on the list that I've tried it had to be a Felipe Gregorio.

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If you have never had one you cannot imagine how bad these are.The smell gets on your hands and lingers,and it takes days to get the taste out of your mouth.I have seen people vomit from them...........

We have a winner..........

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:tu Think I still have a bit of the aftertaste lingering from the Cremosa.

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Frank!

Good to see you, Brother.

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I'm in the Puros Indios camp as well. Got one in a brown bag sampler from CI and thought I was smoking bundled up newspaper. The Morro Castle that was thrown in there wasnt much better either. When price is put into consideration, the worst handmade i've ever had is the Opus X no.5. The only cigar I ever chucked twice because it was unsmokable not for construction reasons, but because the taste was so unbearable. The first third is nothing but PEPPER that burns your palate and makes your eyes water. Then it progresses into F-YOU, HAVE SOME MORE PEPPER and after 30 minutes I can't get past them. Even with a whole 2 years of age they didn't mellow out. Felt so jipped that I spent $12 a piece for something I couldn't even stomach.

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lmao

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Sounds frighteningly similar to 2 of the Tat mini-monsters (pun intended). ;)

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1876 Reserve and a couple of other brands CI tends to describe as a $2 stick that you'd think was the deal of a century. I think CI just preys on noobs trying to get bang for their buck when they get into the hobby.

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I think it'd be easier to skip out on student loans than eluding the Thompson's catalog.

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The worst cigar I've ever had was smoked a week ago at my retirement party. My brother-in-law had brought back some glass-box "Cuban" Cohibas from Cozumel while on a cruise. He's not a smoker so I didn't have the heart to tell him he'd picked up fakes. He meant well so I'm glad he wasn't around when I lit it, gagged, and tossed it into the ashtray.

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For me it was the Est 1844. I have tried 3 and never made it more than a 1/2" into it before they got pitched.

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Need to be careful even lighting those, we dissected one a couple years back that had quite a few non-organic substances in them (plastic, string..)

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The one puff I had from it could best be described as burning some rotting oak inside a pair of dirty underwear.

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Of the ones I have tried that are listed...Felipe Gregorio are nasty @ss bastages :sl

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Carlos Torano Virtuoso. It tasted like horse piss smells. Acid Blondie was a close second.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought they sucked! I haven't been around horse piss alot, but I'll take your word for it LOL

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Anything, and I mean anything, by Pacific Cigar Co.. I smoked one to take a hit for the team this weekend, and man, it was so bitter it tasted like smoking fresh dandelion stems and piss. Probably one of the worst cigars Ive ever had out of thousands.

But for the sake of the list, Im gonna have to go with Thompsons hand rolled.

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Pirates Gold by Rolando Reyes are even worse than Puros Indios...

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This. But it's not just CI; if you believe any of the flowery descriptions you read in the Holts' catalog or on Famous' site about their el cheapo "deals," you're falling into their trap.

For the maximum expression of this phenomenon I heartily recommend the El Mejor lines from CI. They're the very finest in dyed garbage sticks anywhere.

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That's it? Consider yourself lucky. :lr

Every Torano cigar I have ever smoked tasted like dirt. Not earthy...literally dirt. Much like the majority of the Gurkha lines. Nasty sh!t. :2

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http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showpo...9&postcount=23

:hm

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Brian, the cigar we dissected had actual pieces of plastic...looks like they filled the cigar with whatever they swept off the floor that day.

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Worst cigar I've ever had was a Te-Amo. Cant remember what one but it was easily the worst stick I've ever smoked.

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Dyed garbage sticks? Then avoid Maria Mancini Magic Mountain Maduro that JR's pushes. Had red dye on my lips and fingertips for 2 days!