CAO L'Anniversaire Napoleon Maduro

[Gunpowder]

I finally had the opportunity to smoke this cigar while cleaning out my 2003 files in preperation for tax season.

The design of this short cigar is quite interesting but after starting the cigar I knew I was in trouble. This thing didn't want to start, went out consistently and had an uneven short ash.

In the middle things got a little better but only temperoary. This was definitly a cigar you have to attend to often since it continuely wanted to go out. A decent ash never surfaced.

Draw was good and taste was typical Maduro. To summerize this cigar was a dissapointment.

Or maybe it was the anticipation of tax season.

My score: 83

 

[statelandman]

Is that the short stubby figurado that looks kinda like a dog t#rd?

 

[Gunpowder]

Yes. I checked out reviews on other boards and they seemed to indicate that maybe I just had a bad example. I have 4 more so maybe they will be better, I think I will let them sit for a few more weeks or maybe longer.

 

[statelandman]

I've never smoked one, but I sure hope you are right and that they're not as bad as you thought from that first one. Because I gifted one to Blair as the host of the "pass" box pass!

 

[moki]

Draw was good and taste was typical Maduro. To summerize this cigar was a dissapointment.

It sounds like your only negatives re: this cigar are the construction -- that it was hard to keep lit, and that it burned unevenly. I wonder if it was just too humid? If the taste and draw were good, I'd lay odds that a slightly more dry cigar of the same type would be quite smokeable, no?

 

[Wascal]

I bought a box of these from CB. The ones I can get to draw taste very nice.

 

[SamGuss]

I have found the Napoleans to be one of my favorite styles in the CAO Anny and Maduro lines. If as a norm you like CAO, then I would give this one another shot as it is IMO the most flavorable shape.

Sam

 

[Gunpowder]

Draw was good and taste was typical Maduro. To summerize this cigar was a dissapointment.

It sounds like your only negatives re: this cigar are the construction -- that it was hard to keep lit, and that it burned unevenly. I wonder if it was just too humid? If the taste and draw were good, I'd lay odds that a slightly more dry cigar of the same type would be quite smokeable, no?

I am running 65-68%. I have some moe and will try it again in a few weeks.