Hi geeks!
I'm Alex, I just turned 49 and I am a long time pipe smoker returning to cigars after a long (20+ year) hiatus.
I rage quit cigars all those years ago after loosing about $200 worth of cigars due to a cigar beetle infestation. It was devastating and back then cigar info and knowledge was not near as available as it is today.
I had been eyeing cigars off and on for the last year or two, and recently saw a 10 stick sampler with a 50 CT glass top humidor deal on one of my pipe tobacco sites. My birthday was coming up, and so I decided to take the plunge again.
Since it arrived a week ago, I have been reading obsessively on how to care, store and smoke, when I stumbled on Cigar Geeks. What an awesome site and community! I am looking forward to learning more and participating in this community!
I live in the Houston, TX area, and as mentioned before I am a long time pipe smoker (since college). I am an equal opportunity smoker when it comes to pipe tobacco, though English and burleys are my go to blends (PS proper English, Kramer's Father Dempsey, Prince Albert, C&D Haunted Bookshop).
As for cigars, I was pretty boring and unadventurous when I was a regular cigar smoker. I tended to prefer Connecticut shade wrapper smokes like Macanudo cafe, Ashton classic, Davidoff signature, etc.(I also preferred slimmer panatella 38-44 gauge sticks)
Back then I was an aromatic and codger burley pipe smoker, but over the years my tastes have changed and matured significantly. I am looking forward to working my way through my 10 pack once my humidor finishes seasoning this week, and I have been drooling over so many samplers that I think I sometimes hear my wallet weeping in the other room.
Look forward to the journey ahead of me, just glad I found this place.
Cheers!
