cigar aficionado top 25 2015

[Demuths1770]

has anyone seen the top 25 list this year????? i agreed with the a few of the top 10 and than today they reveled number 2 and 3 and i really really really am scratching my head on number 3. dont get me wrong i do like some cao sticks but i dont think the flathead is the number 3 stick. i mean i also dont agree with 7 and 8 but the flathead at 3 just has my mind blown. whats everyone else thoughts on the top 25 as of now. any guess on number 1

[Old Smokey]

I am with ya. I have been looking at their list develop the last couple of days and had just looked at 2 and 3 before coming to the Bum. #3 Flathead 660? Really? No freaking whey! This is the worst Top 25 list I have seen CA publish.

I think their #1 will be trailer park meth.

[AndyCAYP]

I like 2, 4, and 9, although to me the Top 25 of 2015 should be cigars newly released for 2015...

That said, I find it pretty unconvincing that a panel of people sits down year after year and out of EVERY CIGAR ON PLANET EARTH they pick some of the ones they do, and then put them in the order they do. I know advertising has a lot to do with it, which they won't admit, and I have to question what cigars are eliminated through their policy of not including small batch releases in the process of picking these lists.

Frankly, if this was on the up-and-up and these were the honest-to-goodness, no-foolin', fingers-not-crossed best cigars they smoked, they need to find some new people for their tasting panels.

[jhedrick83]

Yeah, I don't get 3, 7 and 8. Especially 3. Maybe #1 is the rebranded Ramon Allones by Foundry (General).

[Rocket Scientologist]

Yeah, I don't get 3, 7 and 8. Especially 3.

I like 8, but yeah 3 and 7 don't belong.

I got almost a whole box of #3 from the old forum and ended up giving most of them away. It's a good cigar, and does have some good flavors, but nothing remarkable. It is a box-press 60 RG, so it feels a little smaller, but still, I can't do those large RG anymore.

[Jordan23]

Yeah, I don't get 3, 7 and 8. Especially 3. Maybe #1 is the rebranded Ramon Allones by Foundry (General).

+1. This.

[restomod]

Why do they do it all ass backwards and announce the top 10 before the rest?

[Hardheaded]

Why do they do it all ass backwards and announce the top 10 before the rest?

Because just about everything they do seems to be backwards and heavily influenced by advertisers.

Don't get me wrong. Some of the articles are good, interesting, or useful. It's just clear that they, like most publications these days, are heavily biased towards advertisers.

[Cardinal]

Edit: never mind, looks like we're not naming them. Don't want to spoil anyone's surprise.

[WNYTONY]

Agree - that is just making sure the advertisers are all covered. No way that is a #3 cigar - even in the (proper) smaller size