JTokash
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Registered: July 2007
Location: State College, PA
Posts: 72
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Review Date: Sun September 9, 2007
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Would you recommend this to someone? Yes |
Price you paid? In US$: $5.50
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Mellow but complex flavors, good burn
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Cons:
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Not much smoke through the draw
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PRE-SMOKE
Scent of Wrapper: grass and cedar with a very faint hint of tea
Appearance/Wrapper: the one I just smoked had a few small veins, but it also had a crack in the wrapper starting at the foot and extending upward toward the head for about 1 inch (this was damaged in shipping so it was the first one to get torched). Aside from the split, the wrapper was flawless.
Feel: consistently hard from the head to the middle, then becoming soft near the foot due to the cracked wrapper.
Tongue: grassy taste, no tingle.
Flavor on Draw: grassy with pepper tones
SMOKE
Taste: after lighting, there was a smooth grassy and woody taste for about the first 1/4 inch. The grassy flavor left quickly but the cedar flavor remained steady throughout the first 1/3. At the end of the first 1/3, the pepper started to show up. The second 1/3 was a nice mixture of pepper and leather, but the leather was not very noticable until the half way point. The final 1/3 was similar to the second with pepper and leather flavors, but the cedar flavor returned just before the end of the smoke as a reminder of where it all began.
Strength: this cigar begins mild and builds to mild/medium by the end. No tingle on the lips until the last 1/3 of the cigar.
Feeling: if this cigar didn't have such a mixture of flavors, I'd say it was actually kind of boring. I've had cigars that were one dimensional, and still quite good. But if this cigar only had one of its flavors, it would really be hard to enjoy.
Scent of smoke: mainly sweet with spice and wood tones.
Heat on Fingers and Mouth: never hot on the fingers, but it got a bit warm during the final 1/3 in the mouth.
Draw: I used a punch cut on this cigar, which produced a firm but reasonable draw. I wish I had used a double guillotine, but I was just hoping it would "magically" start producing more smoke without having to open it up all the way.
Finish: the initial finish is spicy and after a while it has a nutty tone to it.
Other aspects: even though the wrapper was cracked, which produced a runner for the first inch or so, the burn corrected itself and was spot-on the rest of the way... very nice indeed! The ash holds for at least 1.5 inches and was snow white with tiny spots of black - it reminded me of coal soot on fresh snow.
RATING: 6.5 - better than "good," but not quite "very good."
Regards,
-Justin
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All of my knowledge of science was taught to me by Julius Sumner Miller... and yes, "Physics is my business."
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