The good life

"But my cigar sure tasted good!" How can one forget Bill Clinton's famous quote? We all know that Bill was a cigar smoker and loved his cigars, but what really does make a cigar taste good? We cigar lovers would sure love them to taste as good as Bill Clinton's did that day
In all reality, there is no such thing as a good cigar that one buys at the grocery store, or local gas station. Good cigars are premium made, hand rolled cigars, not machine made ones. Cigar preferences and tastes are almost as different as people's fingerprints. Good cigars are long filler ones, not short filler. All long filler means is that the leaves are complete, not chopped up. A premium cigar may contain two, three or even four leaves of filler tobacco that are bunched together within a single binder leaf; the wrapper is then rolled on over the binder. The vast majority of machine-made cigars use short filler tobacco, which consists of chopped scraps of leaf. Short filler burns quicker and hotter than long filler.
The most important thing to determine is whether you like mild, medium or full bodied cigars. If you are a first time cigar smoker I would recommend trying a mild cigar at first, then work your way up to a full bodied one. Any premium cigar shop should be able to give you fairly decent recommendations when buying your first cigar. So now that you have purchased your first cigar, the often asked question is what is the proper way to smoke it? If you want to know, then stay tuned for more to come.