DirkT
Active Member
Registered: March 2007
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 100
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Review Date: Sat June 2, 2007
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Would you recommend this to someone? No |
Price you paid? In US$: None indicated
| Rating: 4
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Pros:
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Bountiful smoke
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Cons:
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Harshness throughout
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After all of the fanfare here is my review!
Beverage: Club Soda/Sparkling water
Pre-light:
Firm wrapper. Nice springiness up and down the length of the cigar.
The cap to me appeared sloppy. It looked like someone messed up and slapped an extra bit of leaf over the cap to cover it. It appeared that there was already a cap on the cigar and it was "touched up" with an extra sloppy slab of leaf.
I cut the cap w/ a Palio without any issues, however. The remaining cap stayed in place.
Nice and easy draw. I enjoyed the flavor I got from the pre-light draw. Reminded me of a favorable flavor that I can't quite put a finger on. But I liked it.
Checking out at the foot it appeared that there was a dark circle of tobacco at the core of the cigar surrounded by lighter colored tobacco. It looked neat!
I had no issues lighting it.
First third:
Immediate acrid/harsh taste that never went away.
Copious amounts of smoke
Nice aroma from the smoke but not nice on the pallette
Good burn
Firm gray ash
The harsh/acrid taste was not leaving a favorable impression.
Second Third:
Continued harshness but it wasn't quite as bad as from the start.
Still burning well
Harshness has died down but not gone
Minor burn correction at the end of this section
Third third?:
still burning well
harshness still present
All of a sudden... I notice a nice smooth creamy sweetness on my tongue! The smoke was smooth and flavorful. It was great! If the entire cigar was this good it would be a hands down winner.
Unfortunately I experienced this great taste on only 2 or 3 puffs of the final third.
On this occassion, these 2 or 3 puffs were intermingled with too much overall unpleasantry for my tastes.
Total smoking time:
Approx 1 hour 15 mins
Final conclusion:
Based on this single experience I can't recommend this to my friends.
The negatives outweighed the positives for me.
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