Posted By: ColbyPants on Friday May 25, 2007
Filed Under: Cigar Reviews
I am baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaack! After a bit of a hiatus, another review for you all!
5.5″ X 42, Natural
One might have noticed that over the course of the reviews I have posted, I have generally reviewed Medium to Strong cigars, both in strength and body. Well for a change of pace I thought I would hearken back to the days when I smoked mild cigars, and review a CAO Gold, a rather popular Natural Wrapped Cigar. Here goes:
Appearance: Smooth and tan, not much in the way of veins, and pretty firmly packed. Overall a pretty nice looking stogie.
Prelight: Despite a hiccup by my normally dependable Xikar (needs sharpened maybe?), I was able to correct this stick to a nice clean cut. The prelight draw was acceptable, with tangyness and sweet honey as prelight notes.
Burn/Draw: fabulous. burned razor straight, nice easy draw with just enough resistance to prove worthwhile. The ash was medium grey and mottled and held for a bit more than an inch. Burned just like a well constructed cigar should. See the telling illustration below.
Flavor: there was much more flavor than I expected in this cigar. It was dominated by sweet and tangy notes. Woody notes like maple, sweet ones like honey, and nutty notes like toasted almonds and pecans. Over the last third of the cigar some spice crept in, cinnamon, and way toward the end some pepper. This is a cigar on the mild side of medium, in terms of both strength and body but definitely provides plenty of flavor. Overall this is a fabulous example how being a mildish stogie does not mean you have to be a bland one. Recommended.
TomC
The Smoking Lounge
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Posted By: Doug on Wednesday May 23, 2007
Filed Under: Cigar Industry
Cigar Aficionado report that a new cigar is on the way! Litto Gomez fans will be pleased to hear about a new cigar. (as will Cameroon fans)
Cameroon seems to be enjoying a bit of hype lately with the CAO marketing machine behind it’s CX2. Plenty of people were probably Cameroon fans before they even knew it. 
Litto Gomez has released a small-batch Cameroon cigar. Packaged in boxes of 50, the bandless Cameroon Cabinet cigars are available at select cigar retailers. Only 500,000 sticks will be made. |
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Posted By: Doug on Friday May 18, 2007
Filed Under: Cigar Industry, Cigar Life
So I was reading a nice article in the El Paso Times… (don’t ask how I find this stuff) about the return of cigars to the mainstream in the city. Shops are popping up and business is booming.
A nice article in these times where the news is often about legislation this and that.
One part of the article got my attention in particular though.
The shop owner they were interviewing said:
“There are no additives; it is all natural tobacco. One company, Rocky Patel, actually goes through the trouble of trying to get the nicotine out of the cigars.”
Wow!
Is that true?
I’ve never heard that.
It’s kind of an interesting topic - worth some follow up research if it’s true.
Anybody ever hear this before?
Can you verify it at all?
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Posted By: Doug on Monday May 14, 2007
Filed Under: Cigar Industry
Hey folks…
So sorry for the delay in posting.
Work has been CRAZY! I guess we all know what that’s like from time to time.
The “Heard in the Humidor” over at CigarWeekly.com mentioned a new Montecristo… anybody actually try these yet?
I personally don’t approve of re-using Cuban brands here in the USA. Someday Cuba will open up and then what?
I’ll tell you what… CHAOS!
anyway.. here’s a clip of the article I mentioned.
…the new Montecristo Serie C, the 13th different Montecristo Blend since the brand was introduced to national distribution in the U.S. in 1995…
…The new Serie C is a unique blend featuring a Cameroon wrapper and Altadis calls the new blend “the finest Cameroon wrapper cigar available today.” It’s made at the giant Tabacalera de Garcia plant in La Romana, Dominican Republic and incorporates a Nicaraguan-grown binder and Dominican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian fillers in four sizes in unique, three-tier boxes of 21!… |
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