Another Cusano fiasco

[psyktek]

Got sucked into a fiver by the description: 18 year aged tobacco, Conn. shade grown
wrapper AND binder. If you like reaaaalllllly mild smokes, send me your snailer!

The Cusano 18 is a beautiful thing, but beauty is definitely only skin deep on this cigar.
Flawless appearance and construction, perfect burn and draw, and that's about where it ends.

Boring, boring, boring! Absolutely uniform from beginning to end, and absolutely no character to speak of at any point. After gettting burned on the Cusano Cameroon hype I should have known better, but....

Caveat emptor!!! ???

 

[davela]

Thanks. was lookin at that smoke.But I 'll stop now .Dave

 

[gcalan]

Bob,

Evey tried the Cusano Corojo? I love that smoke. I don't really like any of the other Cusano's I've tried, but the Corojo rocks.

Best,
Gus

 

[psyktek]

Bob,

Evey tried the Cusano Corojo? I love that smoke. I don't really like any of the other Cusano's I've tried, but the Corojo rocks.

Best,
Gus

Nope, haven't tried that one (hint, hint) but so far the corojo leaf has not impressed me that much. I'm still a maddie/EMS fan.

 

[Bigsmoker]

From my experience tobacco is only good for the first 12 years. If someone claims that it is aged 18 years, they are flat out no telling the truth. It infuriates me when I see cigar companies making such claims or pushing that "pre-embargo" tobacco. Anyone that knows about agriculture and tobacco will confirm that it is not true. Between the crystalization and the bugs, no tobacco can last 18 years in a warehouse and still be smokable. I recently smoked a perfectly kept pre-castro Davidoff that a friend bought at auction (at Christies). It was awful and proved my point. It was nice to look at and the mystery behind it was exciting, but the taste erased all that.