Cigar Name: Los Blancos Criollo Robusto (5 x 52) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan Wrapper around Nicaraguan filler Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: After doing a bit of work this morning, I decided to give another of the Los Blancos a go. The construction wasn’t as smooth as the others and again a couple […]
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Quick Review: Amazing what you forget about in the humidor
Cigar Name: El Rey Del Mundo Larga Oscuro (6 x 54) Cigar Description: Dominican, Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers surrounded by dark oily Oscuro wrapper. Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: I had planned on doing a review of the Felipe Gregorio Power cigar that I had gotten with my CI cigar of the […]
Quickie Cigar Reviews: A Menage-a-Trois
Ok, ok. So I’ve been enjoying more than I have been writing. Or at least trying to enjoy. I had three cigars this week that I wanted to review but kept forgetting to put up. One was “Meh”, one was “eh.. I’ll have it again” and the last was another “Meh”. I find it frustrating […]
Cigar Review: The Essence of Esencia
Cigar Name: Esencia 2008 Belicoso (5 1/2 x 52) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan blend of Criollo, Corojo and Ligero leaves. Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: Ah, Sundays. A day of relaxing and recharging. Well, for most people. Today is actually one of my “work” days. It’s probably a good thing since outside sounds […]
Cigar Review: Starting 2009 in grand style
Cigar Name: Romeo y Julieta Cazadore (6 3/8 x 44) Cigar Description: Cuban wrapper and filler Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: A BOTL in Canada treated me to a nice cigar he had aged for about 2 years in his humidor. I was rather shocked when I got it but totally humbled […]
Cigar Review: Giving the Knuckle a rap on the..
Cigar Name: 5 Vegas Miami Knuckle (4 1/2 x 60) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan grown Cuban-seed Corojo wrapper over Cuban-seed, Nicaraguan-grown ligero long-fillers Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: When I first got introduced to the 5 Vegas line at Cigars International, I was a little hesitant. I tried the 5 Vegas Gold and […]
Cigar Review: A Blue Maduro
Cigar Name: 601 Box-Pressed Blue Maduro Robusto (5.2 x 52) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan Cuban-seed filler with NIcaraguan wrapper Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: After my last 601, I wasn’t too sure about this one but I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve always like the maduro dark wrappers for that extra […]
Quick Review: CAO Ying Yang (50-50) Box Pressed Cigar
To finish my day off yesterday, I decided to get one from the CAO Ying Yang sampler I got. It came with a CAO Black and a CAO VR and then 3 cigars that were blended with tobacco from each, at varying levels: one has more Black than VR, one has more VR than Black […]
Cigar Review: Perdomo Lot 23
Cigar Name: Perdomo Lot 23 Churchill (7.0 x 50) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan filler with a light caramel-coloured Connecticut Wrapper Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: The cigar itself is well constructed with a nice Connecticut wrapper. While I prefer a Corona cigar to Churchill, due to the length of time it can take […]