Smoked an Oliva G tonight... Think it must have been a bum stick or something... Just wasn't good at all... Not at all what I expected... Very "ashy" taste if that makes any sense... The entire time I felt like I was just licking an ash tray... No real distinguished flavor aside from ash... Not at all what I expected from a cameroon!
That certainly doesn't sound like an Oliva G to me. Maybe you should stop licking ashtrays before you smoke. Unless it's, like, a religious thing. I don't like to interfere in a man's religion.
Smoked the Montecristo Cigare des Artes tonight... This guy was tasty and I was worried about it being too dry, too old, or just overall uncared for... but this guy was fine, and I loved it!
I had the CAO that came in the cotm club this past time. I didn't like it. I'm not good with describing what I taste but my best guess is that it was too peppery or spicey.
What do others think of this cigar?
I had the Hemingway Work of Art on Tuesday night. Good taste for the most part. Different than any other Hemingway I have ever had. For some reason I never really liked the short stories. Now this isn't a short story but it's very similar. I have 9 more than I am going to age. These had just come in so they are probably very young and fresh.
though you are 100% right in calling it the "double maduro" i personally like the sound of "paired maduro" better. it feels more ... cigar-like (?) i think thats the word im looking for.
though you are 100% right in calling it the "double maduro" i personally like the sound of "paired maduro" better. it feels more ... cigar-like (?) i think thats the word im looking for.
Is that what they call it? They should pick a naming convention and stick with it: Paired Connecticut and Paired Maduro, or Double Connecticut and Double Maduro, but not one of each.
I just finished my first Gurkha Legend, a torpedo. It's a good cigar. Nice, fairly complex flavor. Good draw and burn. Lots of smoke. I can't say it's my cuppa, but I won't mind having a few in my humi.
Ok, so on the car ride home last night I lit up an Arturo Fuente Grand Reserve Maduro.
It was the robusto size (but they dont call it a Robusto 4 3/4 x 50).
So I did try to review it sitting in my car before leaving the work parking lot.
Wrapper: Dark, not the black like many maduro's, but a nice dark brown, not very oily more toothy. Veins in the wrapper were few and far between and thin when you could make them out. One problem with the wrapper was a small 'chip' in one of the turns due to poor handling.
Smell: Real Tobacco, Ive heard Barnyard be used and that may have applied, but a strong tobacco smell
--Im new at this so that is all I got of the whiff--
Lick the cap: I have never done this before, but see a few people do it here so here goes.
--I got no flavor, but could feel the niccotine immediately hit my tongue.
I cut this with a double guilloting just enough to get a nice ring off the bottom (I dont know maybe 1/32 of an ince)
Here is where the fun begins -- I light it with a single flame torch. It lights up nicely, I blow on the end to ensure a nice even light. I blow the 1st puff out the end of the stick --This is another first for me as I usually puff puff draw at this point -- The light is fired nicely and I really look at the smoke. It is that nice cobalt blue smoke with lots of smoke. So I take a puff puff draw and really try to get the flavor of the cigar swirling around my mouth. I know that the flavor may not build for a bit. So really Im not geting much in the flavor dept and ===BINGO cell phone rings and its work ===
So I have to talk for a few minutes and I have to re light by the time Im done with the call. Im doing most of the talking. So I relight and think I do a fairly good job of it. --Does this ruing a stick? after just 1-2 puffs??
Anyway I finish my call and get this thing re torched. Again trying to get the flavor as I am smoking this. I couldnt get the smoke up and out my nose but will work on that aspect of tasting.
Anyway as I am driving I get som pepper spice some other undetermined flavor and then all I can really describe the flavor as is a pine nut. Hmmm I was doubting myself at that point becasue I have never heard of a pine nut flavor in a cigar, but I kept coming back to that flavor along with some other flavor I couldnt quite put my finger on. The ash has run about 1 1/4 inches without any problem, but Im in the car so I ash it as I dont want it to drop in my lap. So the cigar has a burn issue after ashing and needs a corrective light and really after the half way point the flavors for me are out and all I get is tobacco (in a good way). With about 1 3/4 - 1 1/2 inches left the smoke turns pretty hot and my palate is burnt out at this piont.
My tobacco guy said that this was medium to full body and my opinion is that this is full all the way. Not sure what other tasters have to say about this or if this is just that I havent smoked enough to really determine a full body cigar. The niccotine has a pretty good punch and I feel it when I get out of the car.
So I am at my dinner table last night eating - Roasted Brussel Sprouts and I eat the first one -- I think I had a flashback as that was the flavor that I really couldnt put my finger on. A nice roasted bitter flavor. Not necessarily brussel sprouts, but could be any roasted dark vegetebal. I thought I was crazy, again, but remembered reading a kuzi Post saying he tasted spinach in a cigar.
I wont try an hit this with a number scale rating - but overall I would smoke this cigar again.
I think I wouldnt smoke it right from the shop but would let it rest for a while. I have a 2nd that is in my humi that I will let rest for a couple months and see how it smokes compared to this one.
I'm smoking my first RP 1990 tonight. I had a little on the way to work and will go out on lunch and do a little more smokey smokey. Can't comment on it yet though
I'm smoking my first RP 1990 tonight. I had a little on the way to work and will go out on lunch and do a little more smokey smokey. Can't comment on it yet though
Am I reading this right? You started smoking an RP90 this morning, put it off, plan to light it up again at lunch, put it off, and then finish it off tonight?
Yup! I have it in a portable one cigar humidified tube.
I have another 10 coming.
Don't you find it to get a bad taste? I've put off a cigar for like an hour before because company came over, and it was still okay, but I would think after a couple hours or so it would take on a terrible taste?
Yup! I have it in a portable one cigar humidified tube.
I have another 10 coming.
Don't you find it to get a bad taste? I've put off a cigar for like an hour before because company came over, and it was still okay, but I would think after a couple hours or so it would take on a terrible taste?
Yeah, I've never really enjoyed re-it cigars. but I do know a few guys who dont care one way or the other.
you can make a relit cigar better by blowing through it before letting it go out the first time. im not saying hte flavor will be the same, just not as bad
That's part of what I do. I blow through it before it goes out, then when re-lighting it I get as much ash off as possible and blow through it again. Then I light it while puffing then blowing to get as much ash out as possible. Seems to work for me.
Sometimes I just want to smoke but don't have an hour or more to dedicate to it.
If you think I am bad, a friend of mine smokes all day. He smokes on the way to work, puts it out, then smokes on break, puts it out, then on the way home, puts it out and then after dinner and before bed. He smokes 2 - 3 a day sometimes everyday!
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