UplandFeathers

This has nothing to do with upland hunting, habitat restoration, the bird dogs or what’s happening on Capitol Hill. It has everything to do with one of my vices. I collect vices like some collect antique firearms or classic cars or art. Vices, I have found, are easy and fairly inexpensive to acquire, and there's no need for gun safes or garages since this particular vice you can carry in a shirt pocket. In fact unlike other collectors I can even enjoy multiple vices at the same time. I practice with a cigar in one hand and a finger of whisky in the other. It takes some practice to be able to enjoy numerous vices at once so I intend to practice at every opportunity.

When you go to Bermuda visit the parish of Pembroke and the city of Hamilton. I found a cigar shop on a corner street not far the Hog Penny Pub. The Montecristo brand is premium cigar produced in two places: on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and in La Romana, Dominican Republic for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis SA. I have had the Dominican variety but wanted to taste the Cubans. I won’t go into the embargo and why we can’t have Cubans in the states. Cigars not people. The Montecristo No. 4, I have been told is the most popular cigar in the world and has been in business since 1935. By the way being the patriotic American I am, I made sure these cigars were gone before I reentered the states. Did you know they also limit the amount of alcohol you can bring back duty free? As a good American I made sure I only took back the allotted amount. Who want to carry around all those bottles anyway. Here are the stats:

• Origin: Cuba
• Manufactured: Hand Made
• Gauge: Medium
• Length: 129
• Format: Mareva
• Ring: 42
• Weight: 8,46 gr.

Post Script: there will be no Unboxing Follow-Up like with other postings. Just picture a splendid cloud of smoke and gray ash.