My Father El Hijo

kaelaria

This 5.5×52 stick features a dark chocolate wrapper with a soft, buttery satin feel, minimal veins, tight invisible seams, a partial box press, even pack with slight spongy give, a rich oily chocolate and tobacco aroma and a little bit of a shaggy foot. This is the 3rd of 4 installments of Smoke Inn 15th anniversary series microblends. First light reveals a perfect draw with rich thick full bodied flavors of leather, pepper, chocolate, tobacco and an oily pepper finish. The first third comes down to a medium-full body with a good bit of strength kick to boot. Flavors are very silky smooth and oily with chocolate, cocoa, an aged tobacco and touch of pepper. The finish is growing shorter with just a slight oily tobacco and pepper zing. 25 minutes in the 2nd third progresses with a deep earth on the retrohale with creamy chocolate and cocoa flavors on the draw, with a good bit of pepper zing through the finish. 45 minutes in at the end of the 2nd third, flavors shift to a strong coffe flavor while retaining the smooth tobacco and hints of chocolate. The burn evened out to almost razor sharp and the draw is perfect. Ending with an inch left where it got VERY hot, the last bit showed no further changes. http://cigarobsession.com/2011/07/27/my-father-el-hijo-cigar-review/

docbp87

So far the Smoke Inn exclusives have been awesome, so I am looking forward to this. That said... the Fuente exclusive Smoke Inn stick... oh man, I cannnnnot wait.

jj20030

docbp87:

So far the Smoke Inn exclusives have been awesome, so I am looking forward to this. That said... the Fuente exclusive Smoke Inn stick... oh man, I cannnnnot wait.

looking forward to these, suppose to ship 8-15

chemforever

docbp87

chemforever:

docbp87:

So far the Smoke Inn exclusives have been awesome, so I am looking forward to this. That said... the Fuente exclusive Smoke Inn stick... oh man, I cannnnnot wait.

Info on this?

Apparently it was a project Fuente had done, produced the cigars, and then just set aside, stashed away somewhere. So Abe bought them, and they are going to be the Fuente part of the Microblends (what he calls the cigars that these different manufacturers are doing for him). This will be the only one he hasn't had a hand in the creation of/created specifically for him. Apparently they are on the milder side, especially compared to the three smokes he has released so far (Tat Anarchy, Padron SI-15, and now the El Hijo)

jj20030

got my conf. they have been shipped

smoke em if you got em

jj20030:

got my conf. they have been shipped

Me too

bandyt09

smoke em if you got em:

jj20030:

got my conf. they have been shipped

Me too

USPS means they should be here in time for the So Cal Herf on Saturday.........To bad for Enfidel...........Good news for j0z3r.........

BlueRings

docbp87

My understanding is that the wrapper used on the El Hijo is exclusive to that cigar, and was something special the Garcias offered to Abe, which he graciously accepted.

BlueRings

Interesting, my inital impression was that they were the same just by smell and taste, no imperical proof. So after your post I want to investigate further. Surfing several sites I think I found the diffence in the wrapper. The Avion is a maduro and the El Hijo is not, but they are both Equadorian Habano by a few sources. Im sure there are some differences, as in, where on the plant the tobacco was selected, year, aging, curing, and method. I have become interested lately in the smells and taste of wrappers and their origin. It very well could be exclusive due to numerous methods used on these wrappers, but it appears to be the same source.