Now this is a decent cigar! I received it the day before I partook in a 2 day drive. So between the smoke coming 1000 miles to my house and me driving 800 miles to my destination, it smoked very well with no set up time.
So to get on with it. Shadow gifted me 8 PEGCC's of 4 different sizes. After a long day of checking into the Navy school, going to class, and generally being run through the ringer because I am the oddball(thanks Coast Guard), I finally got a chance to pick out a smoke. I coulda picked out many fine smokes. Any where from a CA 92 rating, to a PEGCC that CA will never touch. Since I can't smoke inside, I decided to take my daily walk and explore the large Navy compound with something I never had(save the PAM/Opus/CAO for a nice single malt). I grabbed the perfecto and headed out.
It was a nice looking Perfecto. Nice dark brown wrapper, pretty good construction, fairly tight pre-light draw with straight forward tobacco taste. It lit easily with a small run. This run, even though corrected 3 times, was a pain in the butt. But I won't judge this gar by this flaw, as I stated it has traveled near 2000 miles, plus I was walking/herfing at a decent clip.
I walked past the ropes course, a good 1/2 mile, and the salt/pepper ash held it's perfecto shape until I decided to flick the 1 1/2 inch ash. The flavor was very consistant in this gar. I look for this in most of my cigars. Straight up tobacco flavor is the only way to explain it. No complex flavors, except tobacco. It is hard to explain. It was like there were 5 different straight tobbaco flavors, with nothing else except some pepper flavor toward the last 1/3. A definate medium strength cigar from the begining to end. No easy begining, structured build up, stronger end. It was consitantly medium from start till the end of my 1 hour walk.
This is not a complex gar, nor is it expensive. But I would smoke this in my rotation as an everyday cigar on 1 stipulation. That all of them are exactly like this, except for a straighter burn.
Thanks Shadow, this 1 made my walk that much more enjoayble. I am looking forward to trying the rest of the PEGCC's you sent me, not to mention the extra's
Emo
So to get on with it. Shadow gifted me 8 PEGCC's of 4 different sizes. After a long day of checking into the Navy school, going to class, and generally being run through the ringer because I am the oddball(thanks Coast Guard), I finally got a chance to pick out a smoke. I coulda picked out many fine smokes. Any where from a CA 92 rating, to a PEGCC that CA will never touch. Since I can't smoke inside, I decided to take my daily walk and explore the large Navy compound with something I never had(save the PAM/Opus/CAO for a nice single malt). I grabbed the perfecto and headed out.
It was a nice looking Perfecto. Nice dark brown wrapper, pretty good construction, fairly tight pre-light draw with straight forward tobacco taste. It lit easily with a small run. This run, even though corrected 3 times, was a pain in the butt. But I won't judge this gar by this flaw, as I stated it has traveled near 2000 miles, plus I was walking/herfing at a decent clip.
I walked past the ropes course, a good 1/2 mile, and the salt/pepper ash held it's perfecto shape until I decided to flick the 1 1/2 inch ash. The flavor was very consistant in this gar. I look for this in most of my cigars. Straight up tobacco flavor is the only way to explain it. No complex flavors, except tobacco. It is hard to explain. It was like there were 5 different straight tobbaco flavors, with nothing else except some pepper flavor toward the last 1/3. A definate medium strength cigar from the begining to end. No easy begining, structured build up, stronger end. It was consitantly medium from start till the end of my 1 hour walk.
This is not a complex gar, nor is it expensive. But I would smoke this in my rotation as an everyday cigar on 1 stipulation. That all of them are exactly like this, except for a straighter burn.
Thanks Shadow, this 1 made my walk that much more enjoayble. I am looking forward to trying the rest of the PEGCC's you sent me, not to mention the extra's
Emo
