Docbp87
Smoke Into Oblivion
PADRON 2000 (Natural wrapper)
5x50 box press
This is a standard line Padron, not the illustrious and lauded Anniversary series
so it obviously is more of an every day smoke (and with a price point often under
$5, it's a whopper). I have not had a whole lot of experience with this stick,
but the experiences I have had have been good.
The stick has a fairly firm pack, aside from a few small spongy spots here
and there. The wrapper, as seems typical of Padron, is a little lumpy and rough
looking, and has a tough, leathery feel to it. Coloration is not entirely even
either, with a good number of darker spots on the leaf, that I assume are
left from the fermentation and rolling/pressing process.
The aroma off the wrapper is light, and creamy, with a touch of spice, like paprika.
The foot has a good humidor and tobacco smell, with some pepper physically in the
nose. Pre-light draw gives sweet, aged tobacco, and a little spice zing.
Lit at 10:50pm.
Initial flavors are of woody tobacco, with a good palette coating nuttiness, and
a little pepper on the finish.
Getting about a half inch in the flavor has sort of rounded out. The draw produces
a pretty dry, woody flavor, that shifts through sweet tobacco, and then hits
you with a pretty good pepper flavor and tingle on the finish which is lasts
for what feels like a lifetime. I am still experiencing the finish as I take
my next draw most of the time. Burn line is thin, and even, and the ash is
attractive, black inside, with thick white rings of wrapper around it.
In the second third, the pepper is still present on the finish, but there is
a nuttiness on the draw that has replaced the wood as the dominant flavor. For
a $4.50 stick this is offering some great transitions and complexity.
And finally the last third initially is adding a weird fruit element somewhere
in there, that is actually reallly pleasant. Like dried fruit. One of the
strangest, and surprising developments I've ever noticed in a cigar. Not something
I have found previously, and it has so far lasted only two draws. We'll see...
Nope. Didn't last. Flavors are getting a little hot. Stick is getting hot at
an hour and fifteen minutes. Pepper and nuts still shining through, but the
temperature is coming up. Put it on a clip to smoke further...
Ended at 12:23 for a total burn time of 1 hour 33 minutes, when it finally got
too hot and mushy. Great smoke!
5x50 box press
This is a standard line Padron, not the illustrious and lauded Anniversary series
so it obviously is more of an every day smoke (and with a price point often under
$5, it's a whopper). I have not had a whole lot of experience with this stick,
but the experiences I have had have been good.
The stick has a fairly firm pack, aside from a few small spongy spots here
and there. The wrapper, as seems typical of Padron, is a little lumpy and rough
looking, and has a tough, leathery feel to it. Coloration is not entirely even
either, with a good number of darker spots on the leaf, that I assume are
left from the fermentation and rolling/pressing process.
The aroma off the wrapper is light, and creamy, with a touch of spice, like paprika.
The foot has a good humidor and tobacco smell, with some pepper physically in the
nose. Pre-light draw gives sweet, aged tobacco, and a little spice zing.
Lit at 10:50pm.
Initial flavors are of woody tobacco, with a good palette coating nuttiness, and
a little pepper on the finish.
Getting about a half inch in the flavor has sort of rounded out. The draw produces
a pretty dry, woody flavor, that shifts through sweet tobacco, and then hits
you with a pretty good pepper flavor and tingle on the finish which is lasts
for what feels like a lifetime. I am still experiencing the finish as I take
my next draw most of the time. Burn line is thin, and even, and the ash is
attractive, black inside, with thick white rings of wrapper around it.
In the second third, the pepper is still present on the finish, but there is
a nuttiness on the draw that has replaced the wood as the dominant flavor. For
a $4.50 stick this is offering some great transitions and complexity.
And finally the last third initially is adding a weird fruit element somewhere
in there, that is actually reallly pleasant. Like dried fruit. One of the
strangest, and surprising developments I've ever noticed in a cigar. Not something
I have found previously, and it has so far lasted only two draws. We'll see...
Nope. Didn't last. Flavors are getting a little hot. Stick is getting hot at
an hour and fifteen minutes. Pepper and nuts still shining through, but the
temperature is coming up. Put it on a clip to smoke further...
Ended at 12:23 for a total burn time of 1 hour 33 minutes, when it finally got
too hot and mushy. Great smoke!
