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19 year old cello. Will someone please take some clear cello off a stick and set it aside in a humid environment and see if it turns yellow on its own? I'd love to know if it's really age + tobacco oil that's doing it, or if it's just what cellophane does.
Faint odor of barnyard off the wrapper.
Spicy, tight cold draw.
First inch: already surprised at how not-terrible this is! Smooth as hell, no retrohale heat. There's sweet creamy vanilla. Cedary wood.
I keep chomping lightly on the end, since the pack is tight around the cap. It opens enough to get a decent mouthful of smoke through. It'd be a shame if it were plugged after all this time.
At 1996, it's now the oldest cigar I've smoked by 4 years. I have a pair of '96 RYJ CCs that are waiting for the right occasion (hopefully soon!). But having any cigars from the 90s to smoke is a real luxury for me, whether they were much at the time they were rolled or not.
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The ash is powdery and holds at least an inch. Could probably go 2" without falling in your lap, based on how it feels as I ash it, which results in a perfect pointy cherry.
Smoked it to the end, and though it's lacking in dynamic transitions (I counted zero), it's:
SURPRISINGLY UNAWFUL