A month or so ago, while I was smoking at the Cigar Chateau, a rep for Adrian's offered me a handfull of his brand of stogies. He told me how good that they were and that they were from Costa Rica and that they run around $6 apiece in a store. Rarely one to turn down free stogies, I snatched them up and put them in the humidor to to make sure that they'd be ready when the time came...
...and it did, today. I grabbed up the Adrian's Maduro and hopped into the Fit to chat on my phone and hit the SW Kansas highways-just me and my Costa Rican maduro!
The band is quaint (kind of a tropical beach motif) and the stick is very attractive-dark and a bit oily but very "natural" looking-not at all like some of the glossy black sticks that one sometimes sees.
As I smoked and talked and drove I realized more and more that this stick was both milder in flavor and in potency than I'm used. I also realized I really liked it. It gave off a mellow and clean maduro flavor that builded slighly in intensity at the nub. Through it all, it gave off good plummage and burned straight as an arrow.
I rate the Adrian's maduro at 3 (on my 4 point scale)-it's a great morning smoke for me and I'm glad I have one more freebie to enjoy before I have to try to find out where I can buy a few more.
Here's a link to Adrian's website, in case you'd like to check them out.
http://www.smokeadrians.com/
