Diesel Uncut Toro (6.5x52): What a disappointing smoke. Here's the summary:
Milk chocolate brown wrapper with almost a shade of deep red to it. Quite veiny. Lots of little veins. Only one vein was big enough that I would refer to it as 'medium-sized.' It was not terribly densely packed but I wouldn't call it light. I rather liked the uncut foot.
First third: Lighting the uncut foot makes your first draw almost nothing but wrapper and you notice notes that are peppery, woody along with some spice that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Lots of smoke output and the smoke was creamy white. Also, this is a very oily cigar. Full-bodied.
2nd third: Smoke output fell off to almost nothing. The body went from full to medium quickly and then went to the mild side of medium soon after. Pepper was almost gone. It was a plain tobacco taste. Not bad. In fact, quite a pleasant tobacco flavor, but boring. About mid-way through the 2nd third, it started canoeing. Touching it up didn't help.
3rd third: Smoke came back. Pepper came back, but not as much. Chocolatey overtones became noticeable but it still wasn't as interesting as the first third. It started tunneling badly and I tossed it. I only got a few draws into the 3rd third.
This is the second one I've smoked and I had a very pleasant experience with the first one: the flavor was interesting all the way through and it burned evenly.
I have 3 or 4 more, so we'll see if this was a fluke or not.
Milk chocolate brown wrapper with almost a shade of deep red to it. Quite veiny. Lots of little veins. Only one vein was big enough that I would refer to it as 'medium-sized.' It was not terribly densely packed but I wouldn't call it light. I rather liked the uncut foot.
First third: Lighting the uncut foot makes your first draw almost nothing but wrapper and you notice notes that are peppery, woody along with some spice that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Lots of smoke output and the smoke was creamy white. Also, this is a very oily cigar. Full-bodied.
2nd third: Smoke output fell off to almost nothing. The body went from full to medium quickly and then went to the mild side of medium soon after. Pepper was almost gone. It was a plain tobacco taste. Not bad. In fact, quite a pleasant tobacco flavor, but boring. About mid-way through the 2nd third, it started canoeing. Touching it up didn't help.
3rd third: Smoke came back. Pepper came back, but not as much. Chocolatey overtones became noticeable but it still wasn't as interesting as the first third. It started tunneling badly and I tossed it. I only got a few draws into the 3rd third.
This is the second one I've smoked and I had a very pleasant experience with the first one: the flavor was interesting all the way through and it burned evenly.
I have 3 or 4 more, so we'll see if this was a fluke or not.