Diesel Unlimited d.5 Review

JonathanE

xmacro

. . . looking at all the html you used, I'm not sure if you're a person or another bot . . . the fact that you're using Cigar Aficionado's scale makes me think you're a bot, or just someone who gives too much credit to CA ratings. But if you're human, I'd say give the DU another shot

JonathanE

Haha, not a bot – just wrote the review in Word. What I don't like about CA's ratings is that they have very few cigars rated below 80 and I don't think I've seen any less than 70. What's a rating scale good for if 90% of the cigars get rated in the mid to upper 80s? That's not a good discriminator. I like CA's rating strategy, not their rating results. My rating results have tagged cigars as low as 40 and as high as 95 which is much more realistic in my opinion. I may have to give the Diesel another shot. I really liked the cigar, it was just a little too harsh. I saw in some of the other reviews that the Diesel may need to age for 6 months or a year before it gets to its prime. Maybe I will take your advice, buy another and let it mature for awhile. JDE

xmacro

DU's can be a firecracker when they're fresh; I'd definitely agree to giving it a few months in the humi, they can get pretty smooth with some time on them

bigharpoon

JonathanE

bigharpoon:

I have a hard time letting them age for too long, they just seem to always get smoked for some reason??? The D.5 is my favorite size in the line.

I know what you're saying! The most impressive part of the Diesel is its appearance. It's really got a strong hand-cigar magnetic attraction going for it. I smoked it sooner than I was supposed to myself! {8-)

Krieg

I actually lit one of these up last night. Tasted great till about half way down then it really started to turn bitter. I figured it was getting hot so I let it sit and then tried it again...no luck. Strange...I usually have a great experience w/ the Diesel Unlimited d.5. Still love the stick though, very spicy and leathery with a snow white ash.

JonathanE

Hey, that's interesting. Did you get the stick you smoked last night from the Cigar of the Month? I wonder if we're smoking an inferior batch because I also noticed the sharp increase in acidic bitterness around half way through. The first third to one half was much better. JDE

Krieg

hmm...I got most of mine from a box purchase a while ago. However, I have been bombed with a few. The ones from the box i know of were great...not sure what happened to this one.

JonathanE

Krieg:

Still love the stick though, very spicy and leathery with a snow white ash.

Hey, just realized you claimed a "snow white ash." My ash was actually on the grey side. Does that mean it was over humidified? Might that have contributed to the harshness that I experienced? JDE

Krieg

hmm...not sure if the humidity has anything to do with the ash color. Humidity will affect burning more than anything, the ash color comes from the type of soil the tobacco grew in (minerals and fertilizers used..etc)

JonathanE

That's interesting. I rated the cigar down a point for the ash actually. It was one of the darkest I've seen that didn't come from a cigar purchased at the Base Exchange that I never should have smoked! I expected better... Again, I wonder about the lot? Maybe I got a bad one? JDE

Krieg

JonathanE:

That's interesting. I rated the cigar down a point for the ash actually. It was one of the darkest I've seen that didn't come from a cigar purchased at the Base Exchange that I never should have smoked! I expected better... Again, I wonder about the lot? Maybe I got a bad one? JDE

Well I might have gotten an older cigar made w/ different tobacco. That's the nature of the game w/ cigars...the tobacco they use one year for the stick will be gone the next so they have to tweak the blend to get the taste back with different tobacco. Thats why my RP 1990's taste a ton better than the ones coming out today. (imo)

Vidarien

JonathanE

Krieg

boydmcgowan

boydmcgowan

JonathanE

Krieg

boydmcgowan

JonathanE