What was your first box?

[Pistol]

I got to thinking about this last night as I was organizing coolers and my fridge-a-dor. As I was digging around, I was remembering the circumstances surrounding many of the purchases and laughing to myself a little bit- "Yeah, I remember racing home for work to intercept these before Jenn found them." "Man, this is the first box and the last box that I bought from that guy." "I still can't believe I payed this much/little for these guys." "Oh yeah, my first purchase!"

So what were they? Mine were a 25 cab of H Upmann Mag 46 and a 50 cab of Partagas Lonsdales. A special thanks again to IHT and Coppertop for really shoving me down the Habanos slope.

[elderboy02]

My first CC box purchase was a box of Ramon Allones Small Club Coronas :tu

My first NC box purchase was a box of El Mejor Emerald's :r

[issues]

My first was a box of Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 Perfectos.

[JJG]

'05 Bolivar PCs

I don't know if it was the fact that they were the first CCs I had ever seen or smoked, but they were some of the best cigars I've come across to date.

Back then CS had banner ads for vendors. It probably wasn't the smartest idea, but I just picked a random one with good prices and went for it. I think I started sweating as soon as I hit submit, but it all worked out. :tu

[Emjaysmash]

First box I was gifted was Padron Londres Maduro.
First box I split was a 5 Vegas Gold Churchill
First box I bought for myself: Illusione 88s

[Pistol]

'05 Bolivar PCs

I don't know if it was the fact that they were the first CCs I had ever seen or smoked, but they were some of the best cigars I've come across to date.

Back then CS had banner ads for vendors. It probably wasn't the smartest idea, but I just picked a random one with good prices and went for it. I think I started sweating as soon as I hit submit, but it all worked out. :tu
Yup, I did something similar and I think that was "my first and last purchase from that guy" incident! I think that was my 2nd purchase actually, and it was a box of Boli PC's too:tu I remember thinking, man, I really like the cigars that I got from the last guy, but he was really expensive and charged for shipping. This guy doesn't, WHAT A DEAL, I'm buying these from him! LOL, leasson learned!

[RHNewfie]

RASCC
Cohiba Sig II
PLMC
Party Short
Boli PC

All at once. I still have part of each box left!

[shilala]

I just tried to remember and I got nothin.
Still nothin.
I think they were Los Statos and La Flor de Cano's and something else. I just can't remember what the something else was.

[guado]

My first CC purchase included a box of monte 2's. Boli Gold Medals, Psd4 and RASS.

It has been a downward spiral ever since...mainly becuase I am OCD and never break a box from its original 25...LOL

Every CC box I have bought has sat intact except for ONE box of monte 5's. Pretty soon I am going to start rebuying all the same sticks so I can begin smoking my aged stock which are starting to hit 4 years... wooohooo

[tsolomon]

Went for three boxes the first time.
Boli PCs
RASCC
SC El Principe

[e-man67]

NC's would be Monte Cristo Platinums

CC's would be 5 boxes at one time...Punch Churchills, SLR Churchills, Monte #2's, Upmann Mag 50's, Partaga 1's.

[macsauce13]

They just came in last week!

'09 RASCC
'10 Monte 4's
'10 Party Shorts

[Adriftpanda]

Monte #2 07

[rack04]

'06 Montecristo No. 4
'06 Bolivar RC
'06 RASCC

[aich75013]

'09 Party Shorts

[KenyanSandBoa]

'09 Montecristo No. 4

[markem]

'70s partagas of some kind. But mind you, this was in the 70s so they were nothing special at the time ;)

[nozero]

NC - I can't recall for sure, but I think it was a box of Taboo Twists.

CC - Never purchased a box and most likely will not. I'm afraid I'd be the one they caught and they'd make an example of me for the others and throw the book at me.

[SaltyMcGee]

06 Party Shorts!!!!

[Volusianator]

Cohiba Siglo IV

[T.G]

My first box?

No idea what type it was, I wasn't old enough to read yet.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3620/3366571788_d39f26bcee.jpg

[longknocker]

I Hate To Admit MY First "Box" Was Acid Blondies, "Back In The Day"!:r:tu

[bvilchez]

Monte #4
Siglo II
RyJ #2
Party Culebras
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[Emjaysmash]

First box I was gifted was Padron Londres Maduro.
First box I split was a 5 Vegas Gold Churchill
First box I bought for myself: Illusione 88s

Actually if I rememebr correctly my first "box" was a glass-top box of Cohibo Panatelas! lol

[OLS]

Formatted like Eman,
First NC box, H. Upmann Churchills in 25s
First CC box, Por Larranaga Petit Coronas in 25s

[OLS]

CC - Never purchased a box and most likely will not. I'm afraid I'd be the one they caught
and they'd make an example of me for the others and throw the book at me.That's what they do.

[Smokin Gator]

NC - Fuente 898

CC - '03 RG lonsdales

[icehog3]

NC - La Aroma de Cuba Robustos

CC - Bolivar Royal Coronas

[DropTheE]

NC- Perdomo Limited Reserve Oscuro "R"
CC- Cuaba Piramides LE

[trader1974]

NC-Joya de Nicaragua Antanos Gran Consuls

CC-Punch Churchill's

[Bax]

My first CC box was HDM Epicure #2's. Still got most of them too:tu

[bvilchez]

Didn't notice NC's were being posted as well.

For me that would have to have been RyJ Reserve Maduro Toro
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[Prozac_Puros]

A box of SCdLH La Fuerza was my first step down the slippery slope

[Cyclone]

Can't remember what the 1st NC box was... something from JR Cigars...

3 boxes of CC while honeymooning in Havana in '02:
- Cuaba Exclusivos
- RASS
- Partagas SD4

[scoot]

First NC box was HdM Excalibur V maduro. Haven't bough a box of CCs yet...maybe soon!

[BeerAdvocate]

Bolivar Belicoso and Monte #4

[Tredegar]

First NC Box: Punch Rothschild Maduro

CC: H Upmann Regalias 09
Fonseca Delicias 08

[yourchoice]

Party 898
Punch Punch

[ProBe]

My first CC box Cohiba Siglo II

My first NC box Cuban Classic 1979 by Don pepin.

[Mr.Maduro]

First CC Box Purchase - '05 Punch Punch Cab & '06 Vegas Robaina Unicos

First NC Box Purchase - Padron 2000 Maduro & Indian Tabac Super Fuerte Toro Maduro

[Boss Hogg]

Cohiba Siglo VI
Monty 2
Party Short

[NCRadioMan]

1st NC Box - La Vieja Habana The Early Years - Silencio

1st CC Box - '03 Fonseca KTD Cadet's

[kgraybill]

La Finca Joyas. :td

[Blueface]

Still remember it as if it was yesterday, yet actually almost 20 years ago.
A box of Padron Londres, Maduro.

[jonumberone]

CAO LX2
Ashton VSG Enchantment

[bigswol2]

NC Fuente Chateau Naturals

C 05 RASS

[kelmac07]

Sancho Panza Double Maduro Quixotes & Drew Estate Dirts

[maninblack]

I'm embrassed to admit this, but I was a broke college student and my first box was Flor Del Todo. Those things were crap but I didn' know much about cigars and they were cheap. Now I'm much more refined.

[E.J.]

Alec Bradley Tempus Terra Nova's

[lbowles2]

My first full box purchase was Cain Maduro Torpedos... yummy :dr

I have yet to purchase any CCs

[Skywalker]

My first box was Tat P2s!!!

[groogs]

Ashton Aged Maduros.

[Lucky_Hippo]

Back in the mid 90's it was A. Fuente 8-9-8.

[Aloxite]

Punch Elites

[audio1der]

I can't remember; it was either Party shorts or VR Famosos (3 left!)

[mcmoyer]

Sanch Panza Double Maduro La Mancha

:D

[Dunkel]

My first box was Tat P2s!!!

Hmmm I thought for sure it was something by Arganese! :D

My first box was Sancho Panza Extra Fuerte Cordobas.

[BroncoHorvath]

my 1st box of CC's was back in 1996, where I bought a box of Monte No. 4's in Varadero Cuba, and my first NC box was a box of Montesino Robusto at Holts in Philly while visiting my sister.

[alwayslit]

Padron 1964 Anniversary Diplomatico maduro - 1998 still have a few left.

[benedic08]

My first box purchase was fathers day 2003 during our vacation in Hong Kong. Didn't smoke cigars back then but i bought a box of CC Monte no.2's for my dad. The only cigar that he stocks in the house.

[akakirby]

My first NC box was Brickhouse corona larga

1st CC box hasn't happened yet.

[dubnick]

Don Lucas Robusto's at the factory in the Dominican Republic. Nothing special, but sent me down the slope.

First box of "good" sticks was Rocky Patel Sun Grown Petit Corona's... which I love!!!

[nomadicwookie]

2 boxes of Padron 2000's:D

[colinb913]

My first box.. err bulk buy was a brick of don diego players club.
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[Starscream]

Fuente cuban coronas

[hockeymaniac]

My first box of cigars that I bought was either Diablo robusto's or 420's Toke from Cuban Crafters.

[KetherInMalkuth]

My 1st NC box was a 50 ct Punch Rare Corojo Rothschild, 1st ISOM boxes (ordered together) were RASCC and Monte #4.

[Chinogobraap]

CC: Cohiba Siglo something, I was 17 roaming the duty free shop in Taipei on Spring Break and though it would be "cool" to get a box for college. My dad found them when I got back to the states, put them in his humi and told me he would "maintain" them for me till I turned 18 2 months later...he forgot to tell me about the maintenance fee...I had 4 from the whole box. He said the maintenance fee was for 18 years of food, clothing and shelter, I can't wait to use that on my own kid.

NC: Romeo Julietta Bully- first time smoking in a lounge tried em, liked it and bought a box

[Veritas]

NC - Montecristo Serie V Vintage 97 No. 4. The sticks are long gone, but I still have the empty box.

CC - Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe No. 2.

[Chingas]

Ahh the memories...

First NC was a box of Cohiba Red Dot Petite Corona

First CC was 98 Partagas Charolettes

First Split was Cohiba EL 2003 Double Corona

I paid dearly for them but it was worth it.

[md4958]

NC- Monte Half Corona (purchased at Costco!)
CC- Trini Reyes

[MajorCaptSilly]

Bought a box of AF Curly Heads back in 1989. Still have one somewhere in the humidor. Found the AOL Pipes & Cigars message boards in the early 90's and became a full-fledged cigar maniac.

MCS

[Apoco]

Arturo Fuente Hemingway Classic.

[SmokinCozy]

Ashton VSG (I think)

[gijoey959]

1st NC: Cain Habano 550's it was the first time I had the money to buy more than 4-6 at a time (was makin payments on a rifle) and I had just finished buying a couple when the clerk at my usual B&M store told me about the Cain event the next day and gave me a flier. Well, since I had been following Drew Estate on Facebook, since it was the only company I had heard on the internet and was fairly new to cigars, I always heard about how awesome cigar events were. I wound up going without the intention to buy anything, I just wanted to see Sam Leccia roll cigars and maybe buy a few, but then I saw my kryptonite, free merchandise (with purchase)! I instantly bought the cheapest box of cain cigars in Habano (admittedly, the sole reason being it had habano in the name) and the rest it history. I still have the cigar Sam rolled (or put the wrapper on, rather, but who knows if he did the rest earlier, so whatever) and I think it may be a cain F in the 660 size (aka a long Nub cigar) but I won't know until I see a few more years go by

As for CC, I don't even know how, and its a little like fight club trying to get those things!
my uncle smokes them often and he said he'll be sending a box of Iraqi cigars or something like that, I was informed of this through the family grapevine, but he did say if you like ISOMs, you'll like em.

[hank_612]

Cao gold robusto

[awsmith4]

My first box was also my first humidor

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/awsmith4/Cigar%20Pics/IMG_2273.jpg

30 Hupmann Vintage Cameroon Belicosos in 3 removable cedar trays. It was my only humidor for about 3 years. I still store it in my cabinet and use it for singles



My first CC box was a 50cab of RASS

[Chingas]

That box it beautiful man!

[SmokeyJoe]

I split my first box with BarneyBandMan... some Arturo Fuente Cuban Caronas... we were living the life, man! :ss

[W.B.]

NC- Padron 2000
CC- PSD4

[akakirby]

ordered my first box of cc's a few days ago

boli gold medals