The stats:
- Appearance - 9 \ Classy look and red, gold and cream label.
- Burn - 8 \ Gave it a minor touch-up a couple times towards the end, nothing major.
- Draw - 9 \ No problems.
- Plumage - 10 \ Unbelievable amounts of smoke. That sort of thing really makes me feel like I am smoking a great cigar. A few times halfway through, I thought the smoke might have smelled a little twangier than desired, but the copious amounts of it just overpowered any such concerns.
- Flavor - 8.5 \ Really enjoyed this cigar. It was potent the whole way through. It started with a heavy coal taste that actually left a heaviness in the back of my throat. Halfway through it seemed to include (more aromatically than in flavor) a bit of a twangy cheese. Weird, I know, but there you have it.
- Overall - 8.5 \ I quite enjoyed this smoke -- and I'm sure it helped that it was the first one I've had in awhile experienced in a halfway enclosed environment, but I think it was a solid stogie to begin with.
In the grand scheme of things, I might not seek this baby out at the prices it runs for -- but I definitely enjoyed it and wouldn't turn one down.
3 comments:
Man...that shot of you shooting smoke is disturbing...
You weren't kidding, that's a lot of smoke-and very dense. Like clouds of nicotine!
Enjoyed talking to you...will post my review of the same cigar soon, since I was smoking it in DC as you were smoking yours in KC!
That's actually kind of weird. At least we weren't dressed the same. You didn't have a white Italian under shirt on beneath an orange button-down with a swordfish print did you?
Funny you should mention it... Um wait. Actually, no. Close though. It was a ratty green and brown sweater that looks like thin carpet from the 80s, but made into a sweater. But close.
As to the amounts of smoke, I was torn between posting that pic (which clearly shows the density) and a different one which has my head barely visible through the dispersal of one full exhalation. Was yours nearly as plumage-rich?
It was pretty dense but the ventilation system at the Mexican bar is very good and so nothing "lingered".
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