I have promised some flashback reviews, and here's the first... Comes from a fun weekend where the bro came into town after a harrowing few months of broken dog bones and disheartening blizzards. Good to see him and enjoy some smokes, some great meals, a little Hendricks' Gin, and watching Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War.
Here we are enjoying the Outlaw.
Here's RT enjoying one of the many countless wise gems I passed along to him over the course of the weekend.
Mmmm... Coffee AND cigars... Heaven.
The following cigar was one we said we'd do a "dual review" of, as he picked one up for me and himself and we smoked them at the new Kansas Outlaw Cigar location.Liga Privada No. 9 by Drew Estates
Here are my ratings:
- App 9 \ striking, cool simple black pen signature on white, dark wrapper, nice blunted torpedo
- Burn 8 \ very solid
- Draw 8 \ fine
- Plumage 10 \ great! Wonderful rich, peppery aroma
- Flavor 9 \ was arresting in its pepperyness, very good, but so full-bodied it may have gotten in its own way... Seemed that there were some creamier layers that may have been too hard to discern that could have been better 'married'. But by far a small complaint because the base flavor was great.
- Overall 9 \ just a great, pleasurable smoke.
- Rt scale 4 \ Although I can complain about the cost (even though I didn't pay for mine!) and maybe that there was some nuance I thought I was missing -- I really, really enjoyed this bad boy. Just won't run out and buy another.
Final analysis: Great smoke, cool appearance and band especially, but value is tough at $15 per stick retail at outlaw. Very compelling taste, aroma and experience.
And here's RT enjoying a smoke earlier in the day.
4 comments:
Man, that was a fun time and a great cigar. I would like to review mine but I didn't have a camera and I didn't write anything down. Doh!
I guess I'll just have to buy another and review it...I'm sure that "the Wife" will understand!
I found that the price is lower online (surprise!)-might be able to snag a pair of them for $20 and we can do another one of these joint reviews.
Sweet. If you're buyin, I'm flying!
Just a heads up (doesn't affect you because this blog isn't tied to your site) but Blogger is removing the option to FTP your blogposts to your own domain. Very lame for me as I've been using and enjoying it for my openrd.net business site for years now. I may have to move to WordPress, or (gasp!) build my own, doggone it!
Oh, yeah, check this out... Outlaw Cigar South (Overland Park, KS) Grand Opening this month in the news: http://bit.ly/outlawsouthopens
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