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Cigar Dossier Designed to Track and Rate your Cigar Experiences

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If you'd like to keep track of the different cigars you've smoked - not a bad idea considering the vast amount of smokes available - Cigar Dossier will have you logging thoroughly and in style. With about a hundred and sixty pages with four entries each, the average smoker could record a lifetime of stogies. Each entry provides space for the brand and size of cigar, where purchased, cost, time and date smoked, your rating, last meal eaten and time (I don't use this one, but it's a nice touch), wrapper color, your comments, and the cigar's band to be pasted. There's also a page on which you can list your favorite cigars and tobacconists, then a few more pages for your notes. It's nicely bound in a black hardcover with gold embossed letters. The pages are cream colored with soft burgundy print.

If I were asked to improve this book, I would add a block to each entry in which to record the country where the cigar is made. Other than that, this log has everything the cigar enthusiast needs. Cigar Dossier is a classy journal that would easily be a cherished family heirloom for future generations of cigar enthusiasts.

This is a superb find. The book couldn't be more straight forward. This is a book that not only allows you to develop your own tastes and preferences in fine tobacco but also allows you to track some of the variables that will impact your reviews. The isolation of the variables allows you to sharpen your awareness and "learn" more about the cigars you have sampled. Not overly complex but very detailed and a must for any serious cigar lover or casual cigar enthusiast.

Read the past reviews says it all. This is a great find. I've been keeping a journal for a few years and now a very classy hardbound book shows the passion people can express about the cigars they smoke. I bought this black leather bound book with gold embossed lettering "Cigar Dossier". Although I do have one problem: I have done about 50 pages with my cigar bands glued in its appropriate box and now this book is becoming much thicker than the binder. This will cheapen the look more and more as time goes on. Nonetheless, this is the best I've seen and definitely worth the buy.

This is a great way to track your cigars and experiences. Keep in mind that this book is exactly what it is advertised as: a cigar dossier. If you're looking for a book with information about cigars, this isn't it, so you should probably have some knowledge of wrappers, vitolas, et al, prior to using this book.

Boy did this book leave we wanting. There is no front matter to describe how to use the book. Probably because the pages aren't organized for the user to record information useful in tasting and rating cigars. The space for placing the cigar bands is too small for most bands and the comments section is way to small to record all the pertinant information regarding taste, construction, appearance, aroma, etc. There is only one box to record the wrapper and no space dedicated to recording the binder or filler information. The filler is probably the most important regarding the taste of the cigar and yet there is no place to record this information!

This book was published in 1995 and was clearly sold to make a buck during the cigar boom of the '90s. This was not made by a person in tune with those of us looking for a cigar log book with substance.

I had given this as a gift to my husband. It is attractive and of very high quality. He loves it and uses it whenever he tries a new cigar. While it seems a bit pricey for being a 'notebook', I highly recommend it for those cigar lovers that want to document their thoughts on their smokes.

This is a smart looking dossier with plenty of entries to last you a long time. There are fields on each entry for Brand, Size, Where Purchased, Price, Box/Individual, Time Smoked, Date, Rating, Last Meal Eaten & Time, Wrapper, and of course a Comments section. There's even a place to put the bands from each cigar.

I've only just started, so I'm not sure if adding the bands will make the journal thicker than the binding. Use a glue stick instead of tape, and you'll be able to fit more.

The only thing it lacks is a "Country of Origin" field. But the Comments section is big enough to include that if you like.

All in all, a great buy. Recommended with 5 stars.