Kid Montana
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This is another selection from the sampler pack I've mentioned in other reviews. I know they say you can't really know a cigar until you've smoke a box or so but I'm pretty sure this one only needed one smoke to understand.
Temperature: 80 degrees
Ambient RH: 10%
Wind 9mph from the SW
Sunny, high clouds
Calling this one obsidian is a correct assessment - this cigar is as black and dark as any I've ever see, much less smoked. It has a rolling bumpy surface, not the smooth surface seen on many other cigars, mostly matte with little sheen and one prominent vein.
Clipped with my cigar scissors, my test draw revealed a fairly tight draw so I cut a bit more from the torpedo to open it up which did help considerably. Initial taste was consistent with many other dark cigars; a slight sour or tangy tobacco flavor that didn't reveal much.
First Third
Initial puffs revealed a full bodied flavor, very punchy with a tingle of pepper on the back of my tongue. The pepper subsided quickly but never dissappeared throughout the first third. A bitter chocolate flavor was the predominant note, much like 83% cocoa chocolate along with a burnt woodiness. I tried to remove the color of the cigar from my mind while tasting towards the end of the third but even disregarding my perceptions of how a dark colored cigar would taste, the full bodied power never let up. Burn was very un-even and required touching up prior to the first ashing at about 1.25" in.
Second Third
The pepper subsided considerably but never disappeared and the dark chocolate remained the dominant flavor. A hint of grass showed up and towards the end of the middle third I began to get hints of ammonia which really killed any other flavors. Burn remained fairly uneven though no touch-ups were necessary.
Final Third
Because of the ammonia flavor, I really didn't smoke much further into the nub. It is clear that the tobacco in this 'gar really needed more fermentation or some aging because I set it down with over two inches remaining.
Overall this was shaping up to be a really powerful full-bodied smoke but it disappointed due to the unevenness of the burn and the ammonia and grassiness towards the latter half of the cigar. Some cigars get better and better towards the nub, some just become stink-bombs and this is one of the latter. The 3.5ish inches I smoked really hit me hard as I was walking back down to the office so this is definitely a powerful cigar which could leave more inexperienced smokers quivering, YMMV. At less than $2.50 per in a box of 25, this would perhaps be a good value after some aging but I can't recommend you spend your money experimenting.
K.M. Score 2/5
Edited to add pictures and fix spelling and typos.
Temperature: 80 degrees
Ambient RH: 10%
Wind 9mph from the SW
Sunny, high clouds
Calling this one obsidian is a correct assessment - this cigar is as black and dark as any I've ever see, much less smoked. It has a rolling bumpy surface, not the smooth surface seen on many other cigars, mostly matte with little sheen and one prominent vein.
Clipped with my cigar scissors, my test draw revealed a fairly tight draw so I cut a bit more from the torpedo to open it up which did help considerably. Initial taste was consistent with many other dark cigars; a slight sour or tangy tobacco flavor that didn't reveal much.
First Third
Initial puffs revealed a full bodied flavor, very punchy with a tingle of pepper on the back of my tongue. The pepper subsided quickly but never dissappeared throughout the first third. A bitter chocolate flavor was the predominant note, much like 83% cocoa chocolate along with a burnt woodiness. I tried to remove the color of the cigar from my mind while tasting towards the end of the third but even disregarding my perceptions of how a dark colored cigar would taste, the full bodied power never let up. Burn was very un-even and required touching up prior to the first ashing at about 1.25" in.
Second Third
The pepper subsided considerably but never disappeared and the dark chocolate remained the dominant flavor. A hint of grass showed up and towards the end of the middle third I began to get hints of ammonia which really killed any other flavors. Burn remained fairly uneven though no touch-ups were necessary.
Final Third
Because of the ammonia flavor, I really didn't smoke much further into the nub. It is clear that the tobacco in this 'gar really needed more fermentation or some aging because I set it down with over two inches remaining.
Overall this was shaping up to be a really powerful full-bodied smoke but it disappointed due to the unevenness of the burn and the ammonia and grassiness towards the latter half of the cigar. Some cigars get better and better towards the nub, some just become stink-bombs and this is one of the latter. The 3.5ish inches I smoked really hit me hard as I was walking back down to the office so this is definitely a powerful cigar which could leave more inexperienced smokers quivering, YMMV. At less than $2.50 per in a box of 25, this would perhaps be a good value after some aging but I can't recommend you spend your money experimenting.
K.M. Score 2/5
Edited to add pictures and fix spelling and typos.
