Actually, one of the best tasting cigars I had in the last two years was one of these IT Toros SFM. It's 1:30 in the am, mid-winter, I am standing in the parking lot of my apartment complex and I can't put the damn thing down.
Complex, spicey, smooth, but with a good "grip" (Wine-taster's term for overall structure and quiet strength), you couldn't ask for a better stick. I'd had several before this one and had laid off because they lacked grace. A little too agressive for me. So this one had aged awhile and it really paid off. CI still sends these in their sample 8 packs, sometimes real big ones, sometimes the modest square-pressed robusto. Grab them when they're on deal and forget about them for a year or two. The last one I had a couple of days ago was so smooth, it was like not even the same cigar.
So, is that inconsistency, or you pays your money and you takes your chances?
All in all, another great value from Rocky.