MonkeyK
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I had been looking forward to smoking this cigar:
Staff reviewers at Top25cigar.com rate the cigar an "A", most individual reviewer at the same site and at Cigarweekly.com praised the cigar. Since this was supposed to be a stronger smoke than I am used to, I figured it would be a good smoke for the pool hall/bar that I was planning on going to this weekend.
I have also recently gotten over a month long bout of flus and colds (the things you get when your daughter starts day-care...) So there was some anticpation of my first smoke in about a month.
When I opened the tissue wrapping, I thought "now this is a cigar maker that is serious about their cigars. The cigar was well formed, evenly firm (with just the slightest yeild). The band was on the tissue wrapper, so there would be no need to remove it while smoking.
As a smoke the cigar was inconsistent. Actually the only thing that was consistent was the smoke (while it stayed lit): lots of bluish heavy smoke that lingered in the air. As I would blow it out the smoke would hang out around the flourecent light above the pool table lending a nice ambiance. Unfortunately that smoke usually didn't taste all that great. I would say that there were about 4 points (one per inch that I managed to smoke) where the cigar tasted really good. Those points had strong flavors of cocoa with a hint of almondish nuttyness. The rest of the time it tasted like I was smoking maple leaves raked up from the back yard last fall (or a sort of dishwater etherial quality, is this what people refer to as grassy?). I verified that taste the next day by smelling my clothes, sure enough they smelled like dishwater with a hint of cigar smoke.
The cigar also wouldn't stay lit. I had to relight it three times. I might have thought that this would mean that the cigar was overly humid, but since I put the climmax beads in my cooler over a week ago, the hygrometers have been reading 65-68%. When the fourth time came around, the cigar was just peaking in flavor (for the good) but with 3 inches left, the smoke was too hot to make it worth my while. I let it wallow in its cold ashen misery.
Staff reviewers at Top25cigar.com rate the cigar an "A", most individual reviewer at the same site and at Cigarweekly.com praised the cigar. Since this was supposed to be a stronger smoke than I am used to, I figured it would be a good smoke for the pool hall/bar that I was planning on going to this weekend.
I have also recently gotten over a month long bout of flus and colds (the things you get when your daughter starts day-care...) So there was some anticpation of my first smoke in about a month.
When I opened the tissue wrapping, I thought "now this is a cigar maker that is serious about their cigars. The cigar was well formed, evenly firm (with just the slightest yeild). The band was on the tissue wrapper, so there would be no need to remove it while smoking.
As a smoke the cigar was inconsistent. Actually the only thing that was consistent was the smoke (while it stayed lit): lots of bluish heavy smoke that lingered in the air. As I would blow it out the smoke would hang out around the flourecent light above the pool table lending a nice ambiance. Unfortunately that smoke usually didn't taste all that great. I would say that there were about 4 points (one per inch that I managed to smoke) where the cigar tasted really good. Those points had strong flavors of cocoa with a hint of almondish nuttyness. The rest of the time it tasted like I was smoking maple leaves raked up from the back yard last fall (or a sort of dishwater etherial quality, is this what people refer to as grassy?). I verified that taste the next day by smelling my clothes, sure enough they smelled like dishwater with a hint of cigar smoke.
The cigar also wouldn't stay lit. I had to relight it three times. I might have thought that this would mean that the cigar was overly humid, but since I put the climmax beads in my cooler over a week ago, the hygrometers have been reading 65-68%. When the fourth time came around, the cigar was just peaking in flavor (for the good) but with 3 inches left, the smoke was too hot to make it worth my while. I let it wallow in its cold ashen misery.