What is your favorite $5 or under daily smoke and why?

[Shaneg]

Originally Posted by shilala

Sancho Panza maduro's and Extra Fuerte's are excellent. Or at least I think so... never had a bad one and they're always perfect and consistent.

Pardon me because I'm going to go all fanboy here. The sancho panza extra fuerte and double maduro are amazing sticks. When I say that without caveat of "budget" I mean it. It's not only a great budget stick I.e. Cigar intl. magazine retail right now is about 60/box20 with a 20$ gift card thrown in, but they look amazing have great wrappers and construction a sweet box press if that's something you are into, and the box itself is great, a lit of inexpensive smokes are cheaply packaged in either mazos or cardboard boxes, the sancho panza boxes are even awesome. If you have never tried them you need to do this.

No, I don't work for sancho panza, but it's the first cigar I ever fell in love with.

[brigey57]

No, I don't work for sancho panza, but it's the first cigar I ever fell in love with. To be honest with you even if you did work for them wouldn't that just be the greatest job to have?

Originally Posted by Shaneg

Pardon me because I'm going to go all fanboy here. The sancho panza extra fuerte and double maduro are amazing sticks. When I say that without caveat of "budget" I mean it. It's not only a great budget stick I.e. Cigar intl. magazine retail right now is about 60/box20 with a 20$ gift card thrown in, but they look amazing have great wrappers and construction a sweet box press if that's something you are into, and the box itself is great, a lit of inexpensive smokes are cheaply packaged in either mazos or cardboard boxes, the sancho panza boxes are even awesome. If you have never tried them you need to do this.

No, I don't work for sancho panza, but it's the first cigar I ever fell in love with.

[timj219]

EP Carrillo New Wave Connecticut. Stella (corona) is my favorite vitola in the line and a box comes to just over $3 ea. The other sizes come in under $5 as well.

If you don't like Connies or want something stronger my second favorite is the Oliva Serie O natural. All vitolas under $5 if bought by the box or 5er and some even if you buy singles.

[cricky101]

Tampa sweethearts 500 maduro and Padron londres are my current picks.

[ColdCuts]

Originally Posted by cricky101

Tampa sweethearts 500 maduro and Padron londres are my current picks.

Haven't tried the Tampa Sweethearts No. 500 maduro, but I'm currently puffing through a bundle of the naturals. For $2.42 per, they're a good 4.5" x 50 smoke. Long filler too.

[Subvet642]

Joey Pete Petit Cetros. $1.40

[RCS44]

Tatjaue Tattoo great small short stick!!!

[The Poet]

Five bucks for a daily smoke is too dear for this poor boy, so I recommend those in similar leaky rowboats to try Consuegra 9Ms, available from JRs for under $40 for bundles of 25. I strongly suspect the same seconds are sold by CI under the unbanded brand they sell as Honduran Seconds.

Why? They are a tasty bargain.

[tsolomon]

On the NC side, it's an Illusione R Rothschilde, I like both the size and the taste. For CC's, it's a RASSC or a Boli PC.

[dvickery]

no mention of the ubiquitous party short ???

and what markem said ...

derrek

[mikesr1963]

Arturo Fuente
Chateau Fuente
4 1/2 x 50
Rothschild
Maduro

[stevef2005]

AF Cuban Corona Maduro
FAM Nic 5000 Toro
Pardon Londres

Cannot go wrong with these sticks IMO.

[Brlesq]

Papa Fritas for me.

[MagicDrop]

Acid Blondie the 4 inch ones. Also Acid Waffers are nice but last only like 5-10 minutes!

[RRocket]

Any Oliva G Maduro. For under $4, Oliva G Special Maduro.

[Scottw]

Bolivar PC

[Xolotal Mungin]

I have to second the Illusione Rothchilde. I think the Gran Habano Corojo #5 is worth a look, and I too enjoy the Papas Fritas (but not all the time.) I haven't smoked them for years, but I do remember the El Rey del Mundo as a good buy. The Plasencia 1898 is one of my go-tos and the Cuba Libre (also from Plasencia) seemed good when I tried it. I was impressed by the Pinar Del Rio Oscuro, which was a really long-lasting, solid entubado stick (they make the Obsidian stuff). On a different track, I quite like the Toscanelli dry-cure machine maduros. They are a good, quick at-work smoke for me that I can throw in my bag without worrying about humidity.

I thought the Alec Bradley "Spirt of Cuba" was garbage. And had a Cu-Avana (Intensus, I think) which had to take the cake for worst, most bizarre piece of shredded tire I've smoked. It was worth it just to make fun of for a while.

[NCRadioMan]

The three best $5 nc's that have come out recently, to me:

Illusione R
Tatuaje Tattoo robusto (I think it should be cigar of the year)
Room 101 The Big Payback robustos

[SuperQ]

Gran Habano Vintage 2002. Right around $2.50-3 bucks a stick. just got a bundle of 20from cbid for $33 bucks.

[Dude Here]

I'm going to jump in on the Illusione R bandwagon as well, damn tasty smoke for just under $5.

I'll add in Don Lino Africa's as well. A solid, medium bodied smoke with great construction. You can get a bundle of 20 robustos from CI for, like, $30 right now.