I clipped a bit too much from the end of this cigar, so it started to unwrap on me. Otherwise, it had a very even burn, easy draw, and clouds of dense smoke.
I mean clouds of smoke. This stuff was thick enough to cut. It was also milder in flavor than I expected, and didn’t get overbearing until the very end. Overall it wasn’t nearly as pleasant as others, but I’ve got a feeling I need to give this one another try sometime.
Started very mild, but built to a peppery finish. About on par with the Padron, only with a bit thicker smoke and a tad more flavor. Even burn, nice draw.
Tonight I tried a Padron, and it was pretty yummy. However, it was quite soft and seemed to have a loose fill. I’m not sure if it’s just a bit dry (it’s had no time in my humidor) or if that’s normal.
In any case, it was like a Fonseca, with all the smoothness, but just a bit more power so to speak. A bit below the Punch in overall intensity, but the draw iscompletely effortless – no doubt due to a loose fill. The experience was very nice.
One of these days I’m going to have to do some comparisons between the brands I like so far to refine my tastes. As silly as I used to find the comments people (ok, Cigar Aficionado) would make I find myself now making them ;-)
I actually had a cigar explode today. Seriously.
Ok, it didn’t actually crack like a gunshot but it did burst.
It started when I decided that the local block party might require some cigars. I didn’t have enough of anything on hand (other than the Fonsecas, which I’m keeping) to both smoke and hand out to a half-doze guys who might be asking. So I bought seven double corona Punch at the local shop, along with a Traveldor.
Now, here’s the thing about Traveldors – they use that green florist foam along with water and poly glycol to maintain a proper 70% relative humidity. I know this, but I didn’t have any poly glycol so I just used water. I suspect this had the humidity much higher. But, for a few hours at a part what’s the diff?
Nothing, but I didn’t smoke any at the party. Instead I smoked one today and while I was smoking it I heard this strange popping sound – it turns out the wrapper was cracking and the cigar was exploding out the wrapper.
It makes sense – over-moist cigar meets very hot air, which causes the water to vaporize and the cigar can’t breath fast enough to release it. But it kinda sucks to see a $5 cigar tearing itself apart.
I met a local guy on one of the cigar forums, and today we met up at a local cigar shop. It was a very new place, and as a gift the local gave me a number of cigars (yay!):
The Domingo was pretty good. About like the Consuegra (Ok, I smoke them a lot because they were cheap ;-) but perhaps not quite as smooth. Hard to say. I think it would be a great $2 cigar if it didn’t cost $4, but there’s no telling what some age might do. I have no idea – I haven’t done this long enough, but a very recurring piece of advice is to let cigars age if they’re rough.