Dirty Dee
Active Member
Registered: June 2007
Location: Oak Park
Posts: 114
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Review Date: Sun June 24, 2007
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Would you recommend this to someone? Yes |
Price you paid? In US$: $5.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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flavor, aroma & cost
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Cons:
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slow burning, relights
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Pre-smoke
Scent of Wrapper: rich earthy tobacco fragrance
Scent at Foot: sharp tingling to the sinuses, no real distinguishing scents here
Appearance: well constructed torpedo, the head was so sharp that you could use it as a spare dart 
Wrapper: dark chocolate and oily
Feel: very firm, (really hard) it seems as if this will have draw problems
Tongue: sharp bite, tingle (like a fresh lemon)
Flavor on Draw: not much just a rich tobacco taste
Smoke
Taste: coffee, oak and hints of chocolate
Flavor Changes: very consistent until the half way point; it started to pick up a little cedar and more coffee and oak
Strength: not much of a nicotine beast, very smooth yet flavorful
Feeling: joy and ease; this cigar has set me aloft another dimension, wow!
Scent of Smoke: sweet floral and cedar smoke billow from this amazing cigar
Heat on Fingers and in Mouth: no real heat from the cigar, the smooth smoke maintained ambient throughout
Draw: surprisingly, the draw was perfect for me; just a touch of deliberate resistence, in the pre-light the cigar seemed it would be plugged since it was so firm (hard); I have had other cigars that would be better used for kindling if they were as hard as this one was.
Finish: the only lingering taste that I got from this cigar was that of a mild coffee (maybe decaf), no seriously only a light taste of coffee bean after expelling the smoke
Other Aspects of the Cigar Smoking Experience: I had to relight this cigar four times. This cigar nearly took me two hours to complete! I am typically a slow smoker but this cigar burned deliberately slow. Maybe it was over-humidified? When I pulled it from my humidifier my hygrometer reading was 70% - 67 degrees. It burned slow but it burned straight leaving a nicely pointed ash when tapped. I think that this cigar is discontinued. If you can find these somewhere pick a few up. Smoke one and save the rest for aging. A few years would probably add cigar godlike status to these.
Final Rating: I rate this an 8-EXCELLENT
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