thejollyco
The Jolly Company
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Okay. Most of use know what this is 
It looks very... pretty. And deceptively small. Almost as small as my peener.
Okay back on the topic here.
I had this on friday with a nice "cup" of cabernet sauvergnion[sic].
So, never having one, but having arturo fuentes before, I expected it just to be peppery, but probably less.
So, when you start off with this cigar, there's only a short burning spot. For those of you new to this, It can mess up the even-ness of the burning... of the cigar. I thought the cigar would correct this eventually, but no.
So, when i first started, it has a nice flavour, and i could taste the conniticut shade wrapper, but not the maduro. There was a nice, subtle cedar flavour throughout the cigar. So, i was thinking, this isn't a bad cigar. There was a slight hint of pepperiness and spice at the beginning, but i wasn't to concerned about that. Decent draw, but since the cigar wasn't too big in ring guage, the cut (guillotine) wasn't that big either. I think that the guillotine cut would be the best for this cigar. The v cut would work if it got it big enough, but it's more probable that you might get the cigar all moist easier in that sort of cut, which makes the draw almost impossible.
Around a third of the way, the spice was more noticable, but the peppery and cedar flavours were still hidden, somewhat. I must say, the wine really complements the cigar.
So around 1/2 of the way down, the spice is getting more intense and the pepperiness is starting to kick in a bit. The hint of the woody taste is still there, but it is masked by the other tastes. The cigar got hot and i kept the ash on to try and cool off the cigar. One thing i did notice was that this cigar got hot fairly easily if you're not careful. One must pace him/her self. It didn't help that i let my friend take a few puffs
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So about 2/3 of the way down, it was harder to cool off. Every puff i took made the cigar feel hot. The taste was more maduro influenced pepperyness with more noticable cedary flavour. About a coupla minutes later, the ash fell off. I kind of gave up after that. I don't enjoy too much pepperyness in general. I prolly would have smoked more if i had more wine. But i was out. I decided to go inside and play video games. The draw got harder throughout the cigar. At this point the draw was sort of saturated with... saliva... my friend sucks at smoking cigars.
So, final verdicts... not worth the msrp of around 20 dollars, but prolly around 10-15, good with wine, it gets hot if you don't pace yourself, and you're crazy for reading my ramblings.
Was it good for you too? :sign:
It looks very... pretty. And deceptively small. Almost as small as my peener.
Okay back on the topic here.
I had this on friday with a nice "cup" of cabernet sauvergnion[sic].
So, never having one, but having arturo fuentes before, I expected it just to be peppery, but probably less.
So, when you start off with this cigar, there's only a short burning spot. For those of you new to this, It can mess up the even-ness of the burning... of the cigar. I thought the cigar would correct this eventually, but no.
So, when i first started, it has a nice flavour, and i could taste the conniticut shade wrapper, but not the maduro. There was a nice, subtle cedar flavour throughout the cigar. So, i was thinking, this isn't a bad cigar. There was a slight hint of pepperiness and spice at the beginning, but i wasn't to concerned about that. Decent draw, but since the cigar wasn't too big in ring guage, the cut (guillotine) wasn't that big either. I think that the guillotine cut would be the best for this cigar. The v cut would work if it got it big enough, but it's more probable that you might get the cigar all moist easier in that sort of cut, which makes the draw almost impossible.
Around a third of the way, the spice was more noticable, but the peppery and cedar flavours were still hidden, somewhat. I must say, the wine really complements the cigar.
So around 1/2 of the way down, the spice is getting more intense and the pepperiness is starting to kick in a bit. The hint of the woody taste is still there, but it is masked by the other tastes. The cigar got hot and i kept the ash on to try and cool off the cigar. One thing i did notice was that this cigar got hot fairly easily if you're not careful. One must pace him/her self. It didn't help that i let my friend take a few puffs
. So about 2/3 of the way down, it was harder to cool off. Every puff i took made the cigar feel hot. The taste was more maduro influenced pepperyness with more noticable cedary flavour. About a coupla minutes later, the ash fell off. I kind of gave up after that. I don't enjoy too much pepperyness in general. I prolly would have smoked more if i had more wine. But i was out. I decided to go inside and play video games. The draw got harder throughout the cigar. At this point the draw was sort of saturated with... saliva... my friend sucks at smoking cigars.
So, final verdicts... not worth the msrp of around 20 dollars, but prolly around 10-15, good with wine, it gets hot if you don't pace yourself, and you're crazy for reading my ramblings.
Was it good for you too? :sign:
