So this is a cigar I smoked last weekend, and I wanted to do a review at the time and I forgot about it. Right now I'm trying to think of any excuse to avoid doing some remodeling work, so it's cigar review time!
Let me start with the construction: it's maybe not the greatest - but it does have some upside. There are some large veins and sloppy seams. I noticed a lot of glue on the wrapper around both the main and foot bands. Plus upon further inspection there was a visible patch, which is actually the first time I've seen one of those. I hope that's visible in the picture. But man, this cigar has a wonderfully toothy wrapper, which I just love. It's also very firmly packed.
The cold draw was earthy, with chocolate and coffee notes. After lighting, I tasted the oddest thing right at the beginning: cumin. That's thankfully a flavor I haven't noticed in any other cigar, and it only lasted for a few minutes before giving in to the blasts of cocoa and coffee that I had been promised by the cold draw. This really continued through the first half of the cigar, when these flavors started to go away and I started to get hit by red pepper.
Throughout the second half of this cigar I really just got destroyed by the pepper in this cigar. Not only was I overwhelmed by the pepper, but the cigar started to go out in the last third. Up to this point, the burn had been perfect, but I suddenly had to start relighting this thing every few minutes. Relighting a cigar every five minutes while driving 75 mph is really a pain in the ass.
After three relights, I actually started to feel sick and put the cigar down for awhile. I'm not sure what caused it. I was driving with the window cracked and the AC on and I started sweating badly. I'm also a Type 1 diabetic, so I was a little worried that my blood sugar was crashing, but it wasn't that. I have noticed from other cigars that if I am puffing frequently trying to keep one lit, I'm more likely to feel like crap. So after about fifteen minutes I started to feel better and did manage to finish most of the cigar. I didn't nub it because all I tasted was pepper, and it was starting to get hot from the relights. There was probably 1" to 1.5" left.
So this cigar was revived from a trade with a brother on another forum. I've had the cigar in my humi since January 2015, and I have no idea what these cigars go for if you could even find them for sale. I remember seeing them on CI for sale I think last year, but I couldn't find them at the time of this review. Since I don't think anyone was going to rush out and buy a box of these based on my review, you're probably all in luck. If you're into that flavor profile, smoke 'em if you got 'em
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Let me start with the construction: it's maybe not the greatest - but it does have some upside. There are some large veins and sloppy seams. I noticed a lot of glue on the wrapper around both the main and foot bands. Plus upon further inspection there was a visible patch, which is actually the first time I've seen one of those. I hope that's visible in the picture. But man, this cigar has a wonderfully toothy wrapper, which I just love. It's also very firmly packed.
The cold draw was earthy, with chocolate and coffee notes. After lighting, I tasted the oddest thing right at the beginning: cumin. That's thankfully a flavor I haven't noticed in any other cigar, and it only lasted for a few minutes before giving in to the blasts of cocoa and coffee that I had been promised by the cold draw. This really continued through the first half of the cigar, when these flavors started to go away and I started to get hit by red pepper.
Throughout the second half of this cigar I really just got destroyed by the pepper in this cigar. Not only was I overwhelmed by the pepper, but the cigar started to go out in the last third. Up to this point, the burn had been perfect, but I suddenly had to start relighting this thing every few minutes. Relighting a cigar every five minutes while driving 75 mph is really a pain in the ass.
After three relights, I actually started to feel sick and put the cigar down for awhile. I'm not sure what caused it. I was driving with the window cracked and the AC on and I started sweating badly. I'm also a Type 1 diabetic, so I was a little worried that my blood sugar was crashing, but it wasn't that. I have noticed from other cigars that if I am puffing frequently trying to keep one lit, I'm more likely to feel like crap. So after about fifteen minutes I started to feel better and did manage to finish most of the cigar. I didn't nub it because all I tasted was pepper, and it was starting to get hot from the relights. There was probably 1" to 1.5" left.
So this cigar was revived from a trade with a brother on another forum. I've had the cigar in my humi since January 2015, and I have no idea what these cigars go for if you could even find them for sale. I remember seeing them on CI for sale I think last year, but I couldn't find them at the time of this review. Since I don't think anyone was going to rush out and buy a box of these based on my review, you're probably all in luck. If you're into that flavor profile, smoke 'em if you got 'em
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