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o seed a couple of months later while at a smoke shop that seed produced a little plant that sprouted out of the ground i saw a couple of different sizes of the b a mooch line and was reminded of the previous experience let s just say i was compelled to make the purchase the cigar rested comfortably in my humidor for a few months until recently it was a churchill size after all i needed to wait until i knew i d have time to enjoy it i had a feeling i d like it and i don t like to rush when i m smoking a good cigar so when i finally had time i happily picked this out of the humidor and prepared to smoke it but before i would light up i took a sample of the prelight wrapper and foot aroma the only thing i detected was a fruity white pepper scent it was actually pretty enticing after getting more white pepper off the pre light draw i lit my cigar early on there was more white pepper it was quite good but it didn t arrive alone accompanying the white pepper was a very pleasant and mouth watering citrus flavor that was pretty mcuh the majority of the flavor i got throughout the whole smoke there were very brief and fleeting flavors of earthiness and nuttiness but they were very subtle overall this is definitely a cigar i would love to try again in fact i have a mooch minnie in my humidor right now that i can t wait to sample granted the windbag was quite mild in strength and not incredibly complex but the flavors that were there were medium full and would not quit when i smoke a cigar for so long that i m burning my fingers because i just don t want to let it go it s definitely good until next time as always go grab some cigars and burn em down posted by cigarsonist at 5 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest cao osa sol lot 50 there has been a lot of talk about the new line from cao some good some undecided some decidedly not good it has always been my own personal policy though to make up my own mind about something rather than letting someone dictate what my decision should be personally i was excited about trying the osa sol on a recent trip to seattle washington i decided to visit several b ms with the hope that several new cigar lines would be found i was happy that the osa sol was among those i found the wrapper on this cigar was very dry looking no real oily sheen or anything it was very dark a dark chocolate brown the aroma on the wrapper and foot was a simple tobacco aroma the pre light draw left a slight pepper tingle on my lips but was otherwise unremarkable as i lit up this cigar i was surprised the cao cigars i ve enjoyed in the past are usually a solid medium strength maybe medium full immediately this cigar was very strong i would call it full strength but not all the way full probably on the low end of full later on the strength settled down to a high medium the flavors were of very strong coffee and earth early on i began to worry that the cigar was going to be too much for me i started to feel a little light headed i decided i would need to pair the cigar with something for balance quickly i decided i needed chocolate and milk chocolate paired perfectly with this cigar it provided the balance i needed to make the smoke much more enjoyable to sum up this experience i would say that i liked the osa sol however i m not sure whether i would smoke one often it s possible that this cigar ages well i guess i ll soon find out i have one more in my humidor i m going to give it another 6 months or so maybe more and put it to the test if anyone reading is a fan of very strong cigars this one might be right up your alley just try to get a good meal in first until next time as always go grab some cigars and burn em down posted by cigarsonist at 5 20 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest rocky patel taa signature series toro i m not going to lie to you people i m a fan of rocky patel there are some who definitely are not i m not sure why perhaps they ve just had too many bad experiences patel does have a lot of different cigar lines on his label and with that many i m sure it s hard to make cigar after cigar with consistent construction and flavor maybe some people just don t like the amount of cigar lines he has there are those for whom i m sure the rp brand does lose credibility because he has so many different types of cigars personally i can only speculate about all that because as i mentioned i ve always liked rocky patel cigars that i ve smoked with few exceptions so when i was at a seattle b m called rain city cigars great place and the taa signature series toro caught my eye i was intrigued an rp line i ve never heard of i had to pick one up and after about a month spent resting in my humidor i figured it was time to try it i lit up this cigar and immediately tasted some woodiness and earthiness with the woodiness being the dominant flavor perhaps there was some leather as well but i looked down at the cigar and it was burning extremely unevenly uh oh have i found an rp with poor construction then i realized something to my horror and this is very embarassing to admit because i lit this cigar outside at night i failed to remember the very long footband that covers the bottom half of the cigar and was smoking through it i then very quickly panicked and removed the band well the burn definitely improved a lot after the foot band was removed throughout the cigar the flavors didn t change much in the final third the earthiness took over as the dominant flavor and the woodiness faded into the background somewhat the final third did introduce one new flavor a savory meaty flavor that i quite enjoyed while it was present i ll be honest there wasn t a lot to this cigar it wasn t bad it was decent just not great the strength remained a mild medium throughout while the body and flavor both remained a solid medium it does make me want to pick up a few more of these just to see if the others are the same and so i can try to redeem myself by remembering to remove the foot band prior to lighting those who are already rp fans won t find a lot in this one to experience any kind of renewal of passion for the manufacturer but it probably won t tarnish his reputation for them either those who are definitely not fans of rp will probably want to stay away from this one as much as any of his others that they re already ignoring until next time as always go grab some cigars and burn em down posted by cigarsonist at 5 19 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 6 2012 emilio af2 bmf before i smoked this cigar i literally had no prior experience with any of this company s cigars i received this cigar as part of a prize pack and had no knowledge of the brand before getting it it s an interesting experience smoking a cigar you really have no prior knowledge of i would compare it to smoking an unbanded cigar a friend hands to you of course this is all helped along by the style of art the cigar is packaged with the band as you ll see in the accompanying photo is very simple it s a gold colored band with black lettering that plainly says emilio af2 no fancy fonts or logos if the band didn t have any kind of color to it i would assume this was a sample provided by the company so with no real preconceived notions i took the cigar from my humidor as i removed the cigar from the cellophane i took a mental note of how great it looked some oily sheen on the wrapper with minimal veins the aroma on the wrapper and foot was a very ordinary aged tobacco aroma it wasn t unpleasant but it didn t grab my attention the pre light draw was similarly plain as i lit up i was greeted with some very nice flavors there were flavors of woodiness and smokiness i m not sure how to further describe what i was tasting i would compare it to some of the flavors i ve tasted in smoked meat kind of like beef jerky but without the saltiness and that was pretty much all i detected in this cigar in terms of flavor the cigar is very well constructed the burn was great it occasionally went crooked but very quickly corrected itself the flavors lasted throughout the entire cigar i would describe this stick as rich and full of flavor but not overly complex this is a solid medium strength stogie i would recommend it to any who are out there that don t demand flavor changes repeatedly or those who don t feel the need to be punched in the face by a cigar thanks to doc diaz of stogierate com for providing this opportunity to try the af2 posted by cigarsonist at 3 42 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 18 2011 punch cra toro i ve liked punch cigars since the first time i tried one i don t know what it is about them so i was thrilled when i looked at the bag of cigars i got at the seattle cigar expo in the summer and saw this one and i decided it was finally time to light this up before i did light up i cut it with my shuriken and took a hit off the wrapper and foot aromas the wrapper had a pungent tobacco aroma from the foot i got aromas of mustiness and cocoa very nice the cold draw i sampled was what i would describe as a musty tobacco flavor upon lighting up this cigar is instantly medium in strength and body and medium full in flavor the flavors i picked up were coffee and herbal flavors very strong herbal flavors in fact several times throughout the cigar i was reminded of the scent that oregano has there is a hint of ammonia but nothing that makes the stick unpleasant it s just barely there i recently bought a box of another cigar brand that s made in honduras and this cigar reminded me somewhat of those cigars so it seems that the flavors i was detecting are characteristic of honduran cigars even though this isn t a puro or anything half way through the texture took on a very buttery feel overall i d say that this experience definitely does not have me feeling any less love for punch this was a truly great smoke if not for the lack of real estate available in my 2 humidors i would definitely buy a box of these now this one showed great potential for aging as well i d say if you re a fan of medium full flavored cigars and you like other hondurans you d be missing out if you don t try a few punch cigars posted by cigarsonist at 12 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 7 2011 ep carillo core line torpedo there has been much ado about ernesto perez carillo since he started his own label it seems everything he releases has such great buzz and yet most of his cigars barely breach medium strength based on reviews i ve read it goes to show that someone can create cigars with less than punch you in the face strength that are still talked about by most serious smokers this was what came to mind when i was at the seattle cigar expo perusing the wares of some of seattle s finest b ms and spotted the ep carillo core line torpedo and i realized that with all i d heard at the time i couldn t confirm any of it because i hadn t smoked any yet so with that i felt i was left with no choice i waited until i could give this cigar the attention i felt it should get epc is a legendary dude so i wanted to make sure i could focus on the cigar when i took a sample of the wrapper and foot aroma i didn t notice anything special it was actually somewhat plain the cold draw was about the same then i lit up upon lighting there was a little pepper woodiness and nutiness immediately the draw was great the burn started out crooked as many cigars that i smoke seem to do but quickly recovered and evened out in fact the burn got crooked several times throughout my experience and always evened itself out it was pretty impressive after the first inch or so the pepper flavor disappeared and the cigar held firm to the woody nutty flavors with a natural sweetness that was pretty good that pepper reappeared at about the half way point but was reasonably muted overall this was a good mild medium smoke that was decent i wasn t blown away or anything but i could tell that epc makes some reliable and consistent smokes i imagine most people would pick this to go with morning coffee or in the early afternoon after a light lunch if you like a cigar that s a good companion while you re engaged in some other activity but still relaxing this might be right up your alley posted by cigarsonist at 9 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday november 20 2011 j fuego gran reserva corojo no 1 to my knowledge i haven t really smoked any of jesus fuego s blends i ve smoked the xikar hc connecticut which i previously reviewed but before the gran reserva i hadn t smoked anything in his line or anything else he s blended i emphasize to my knowledge though because sometimes you just don t know who blended what so with the knowledge that this was mostly undiscovered country i pulled the gran reserva corojo no 1 out of my humidor the cigar is a toro size about 6 x 50 the aroma off the wrapper and foot was good but nothing out of the ordinary for a cigar it just had a good standard faint barnyard aroma i cut this cigar with my shuriken cutter and sampled the cold draw i couldn t quite place the flavor i got immediately but i definitely felt the tingle of pepper on my lips i m not always fond of this so i took a bit of a cautious approach to the cigar when lighting i then lit the cigar with my iroda torch upon lighting i was greeted with a somewhat familiar cedar and pepper flavor these are the flavors i ve been noticing on many cigars recently it definitely wasn t unpleasant but nothing caught me by surprise here however somewhere within the first inch the pepper quickly faded though not entirely disappearing and flavors of citrus and coffee showed up this wasn t bad at all i quite enjoyed it and the draw and burn were both superb i didn t notice any changes until late in the second third when i started noticing faint and fleeting flavors of coconut and chocolate with some nuttiness and earthiness all good stuff i then proceeded to smoke this cigar until just about the very nub all along the flavors were relatively consistent to match the draw and burn and it was a pretty good medium full bodied cigar i would definitely try a j fuego again and look forward to seeing what else his line of cigars has to offer i would recommend this one to anyone who enjoys corojo thanks very much to doc diaz for sending this to me in a contest prize pack posted by cigarsonist at 5 42 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2012 4 february 3 berger argenti mooch windbag cao osa sol lot 50 rocky patel taa signature series toro january 1 2011 16 december 2 november 1 october 4 september 8 august 1 cigarsonist media 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