Wrapper: Nicaraguan Oscuro
Binder: Ecuadorian Sumatra
Filler: Dominican
Size: 6.5 x 58 Box Pressed
Strength: Medium/Full
Price: $18.00 Much less if you scroll: $11.86 from Cigar Page…but wait.
The cigars have 6 months of box aging. And received another 4 months of naked humidor time. That is a total of 13 months. Wait.
THE WHOLE MEGILLAH:
Torturous Tortious Tuesday. Subpoenas are in the mail.
Stout cigar with some respectable weight like a 4 finger lid. The LFD is plugged pretty good. With a swish, like me in front of the draft board in 1969, my PerfecDraw cleans this tubular litter box. To continue my shameless plugging of Dr. Rod, I use my PerfecPunch to open the cap. It’s a bloody scalpel. Notice in the photo that the blades on the punch are on the inside. ”…there is no sharpening bevel on the outside rim of the blades – therefore zero outward force to crack your cigar cap on the head of your cigar!” Davidoff tried to buy Dr. Kurthy’s invention. He said no. If he had said yes, this would have been a $200+ accessory instead of $40. For another $3.50, Rod will laser etch his favorite buttocks cheek on the punch.
The cigar smells as nice as a spellbound ferret…dark chocolate and cow dung.
Nobody knows how many of these cigars were released. Most retailers no longer have them. Those that do have them have hoisted their pirate flags and look towards new customers that think they’re getting a good deal. Shame on those bootleggers, bandits, and wannabe swashbucklers. They’re no Errol Flynn.
Tart entry. Hot chocolate, raisins, brown sugar, sour sweet tarts, black licorice, and mellow black pepper.
The wrapper against my lips is delicious. Tastes like an ice cream sandwich.
Very slow roll. This log will take 2-1/2 hours to smoke. Generally, I don’t like to review giant cigars. I run out of steam before the cigar does. But I like LFD blends. They don’t push the envelope for inventiveness, but they’re solid and priced appropriately.
Strength is a scoche higher than medium. The cigar’s initial lure is a sense it wants to stay in middle earth. It does not. The halfway point will see the strength go for the gonads. So, I loiter here enjoying the early easy-going prequel.
The sour lemon citrus is lovely.
If you want to be taken seriously, never use the word ‘journey.’
The extraordinary taste of the dry wrapper on the lips is unusual. The intense dark cocoa and sweet fruitiness makes this a treat.
A perfect herf cigar. In your face flavors, beautiful mouth feel, a lively distraction that requires minimal focus, and will stay lit while you go to the head to pee.
The burn ain’t that bad:
I keep 4-5 digital hygrometers in each humidor. All different brands. From the expensive to the not so expensive. This is because they are rarely all that accurate. It takes vigilance to keep up with their maintenance. As I’m not a vigilant person, I find it easier to keep various models working in tandem with each other. This way, I find their average % and determine whether less or more humidification is required. Works for me. Lazy is an art.
The second half. 90 minutes.
I don’t know what this is. I smoked it. I didn’t like it:
The first couple of inches…I’m not sure this cigar knew what it wanted to be when it grew up. Is this cigar blend earth shattering? Have we been here before? No and yes. The Nic Oscuro gives it brashness. The Ecuadorian gives it balance. And the Dominican gives it breadth.
I gave this cigar over 3 hours. I prepared my kosher baby back ribs. I thanked my lucky stars I’m retired…that’s 3 minutes of kneeling before the altar of Moose & Squirrel. And exercised my God given right to soak my nuts in Dawn (Exxon Valdez re-enactment…don’t ask).
During college, I’d often get part time work with a structural fabricator in Long Beach. Sometimes a draftsman, next time a filing clerk…but one summer, I was given the most traumatic position in my career. They were supplying steel for a nuclear plant in Taiwan. The structure had a gazillion steel embeds. 6” thick plates with 3”ø bent rebar welded in all sorts of crazy configurations. My job was to draw their individual placement on shipping plates that would use space wisely and keep their weight at 1200lbs for maximum cost efficiency. All fucking day long. For two months. Thousands of drawings. On the upside, I could do a Rubik Cube in 30 seconds flat after that.
Last call for flavors: Dark chocolate, brown sugar, raisins, creamy toffee, sour lemon, maraschino cherries, light floral notes, black licorice, cinnamon, pear, and black pepper. And yet it does not feel like a flavor bomb. The flavors vary from in my face (chocolate, sweetness, cinnamon, and fruit) to subtle (citrus, licorice, spiciness, floral, etc).
Transitions are sleight of hand.
This blend is for stalwarts. Maybe a little tough for newbies due to this blend’s potency.
I paid high retail for these cigars. I’m just not very bright.
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RATING: 93
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