kockroach
BoM August 2010/2011
Alright, on to review number four. I just finished a Camacho Triple Maduro Robusto. A nice tight and oily dark chocolate maduro wrapper surrounds this 4.5x50 stick. Very little veins, almost seamless wrap, with a nice round head and perfect cap...gorgeous looking stick. I have had a few of these now, but this one has been sitting for about a month, so it should be a little different than I had previously. And it didn't disappoint.
After a clean cut with my Palio, the pre-light drag is full of coffee and cocoa. There is also a little sweet flavor coming from the wrap itself. Upon lighting, the first puff hits me with the same coffee and cocoa, but also unloads strong spice, with a little bit of a creamy cedar flavor on the back end. The first third of the smoke continues in this way. The burn is pretty even and compact with a nice white ash (much more so than the two CAOs I reviewed over the last two days).
The second third of the stick calms down in the coffee and cocoa, but they don't disappear. There is a bit of a fruity flavor mixed in, and a stronger flavor of cedar and bell pepper on the finish. The burn never gets out of control at all, the ash taps off in one nice big piece.
The final third tones down a little more on the coffee flavor, but the cocoa comes back up. The cedar and bell pepper also mix in a little bit more. There is enough of a creamy texture (not over-powering) that it keeps it from being a drier smoke (like the CAO Mx2 I had yesterday).
I got this guy close to a nub, and would have let it burn my fingers, but my smoking room was f'in cold (I keep a window cracked for ventilation, and it's 13 degrees outside). I can still taste the pepper and cedar. Good stuff!
For an individual stick, it is just under $11. Not necessarily cheap, but well worth the dough. I would definitely buy more (wait, I have three more of these, as well as two 11/18s), and would recommend it to anyone that likes a full flavor smoke.
After a clean cut with my Palio, the pre-light drag is full of coffee and cocoa. There is also a little sweet flavor coming from the wrap itself. Upon lighting, the first puff hits me with the same coffee and cocoa, but also unloads strong spice, with a little bit of a creamy cedar flavor on the back end. The first third of the smoke continues in this way. The burn is pretty even and compact with a nice white ash (much more so than the two CAOs I reviewed over the last two days).
The second third of the stick calms down in the coffee and cocoa, but they don't disappear. There is a bit of a fruity flavor mixed in, and a stronger flavor of cedar and bell pepper on the finish. The burn never gets out of control at all, the ash taps off in one nice big piece.
The final third tones down a little more on the coffee flavor, but the cocoa comes back up. The cedar and bell pepper also mix in a little bit more. There is enough of a creamy texture (not over-powering) that it keeps it from being a drier smoke (like the CAO Mx2 I had yesterday).
I got this guy close to a nub, and would have let it burn my fingers, but my smoking room was f'in cold (I keep a window cracked for ventilation, and it's 13 degrees outside). I can still taste the pepper and cedar. Good stuff!
For an individual stick, it is just under $11. Not necessarily cheap, but well worth the dough. I would definitely buy more (wait, I have three more of these, as well as two 11/18s), and would recommend it to anyone that likes a full flavor smoke.
