Leaving aside the obvious sexual aspects which I assume have already been covered in the thread :p, the answer is obviously yes. At a certain point you simply can’t get a decent draw. I’ve had a number of cigars that fit into that category, usually from the length combined with the thickness, though IMHO it’s the length that is the drawback. Again, leaving aside the obvious sexual double entendre, if you can fit it in your mouth then it’s going to work, thickness wise…least, I’ve never had a cigar that was too thick to draw properly, while I HAVE had several that were too long to be enjoyable.
the draw of the cigar is based on how well it was rolled so in that respect size doesn’t matter. Length determines how long you could smoke it and a decent 8" 60+ ring could take a half hour to smoke. I’ve never had much luck storing and relighting a cigar so it’s wasted money for me to buy cigars that I don’t have time to smoke. I like the 60 ring gauge. The larger ring cigars seem to fall apart on me. Not sure why.
“never spent more than an hr with a cigar. The taste of them diminishes with time”
Thos ewho consistently “nub” their cigars (smoke down until too short to hold) would disagree.
As I noted above I prefer smaller rather than larger cigars - I want to be done smoking in an hour, but not because taste has diminished, indeed, I don’t find this to be true.
" I like the 60 ring gauge. The larger ring cigars seem to fall apart on me. Not sure why"
There are relatively very few cigars larger than 60 irng gauge. It takes a poor quality cigar to “fall apart”
The 60 ring cigar is a recent addition to makers’ line-ups in response to a perceived demand for larger cigars. There are many more large ring gauge cigars (up to 60) than there were even 5 years ago.
As I and others have noted this size is hot in the market. if a manufacturer didn’t make one last year, they are making one this year. They must sell, because everybody makes it.
What is odd, though, is that if you ask at cigar discussion boards, responses indicate that most do not care for this size. IOW among those who are cigar “hobbyists” and collectors (folks with thousands and tens of thousands of cigars) the 60 ring doesn’t sell.
Generally speaking, I have found a consensus that 54 is the largest popular size (and as I note, I don’t care for a cigar this fat)
I wonder who buys them because as I say, they are all over the market.
that was a typo. should read 50. And I gravitate towards coronas which are even smaller although the ones I use to get directly from Nicaragua may have been 50’s. Never measured them. I miss my connection to those cigars.
That’s been my go-to for years now. Oliva Serie V Double Toro. I have a box on order right now.
Funny thing is, after you get used to a larger cigar, it seems normal, even small. Doesn’t seem like the war club it felt like when I first tried it.
Larger gauge = more complex blends possible, cooler burn. Too big is whatever size is no longer possible to comfortably smoke, but I haven’t encountered that size yet.
Smokers of larger ring gauge cigars make this claim all the time.
It’s like saying a big pancake is more complex than a smaller pancake. Or that there were no well-blended cigars before 10 years ago.
I just read that the 6 x 60 is now the third best-selling size in America.
Cuba seemingly does not believe that his phenomenom of 60+ ring gauges is necessary to produce complex cigars. See for example the Cohiba Behike reblended in 2010 without going to 60.