La Floridita Limited Edition Cigar Review
This La Floridita Limited Edition cigar comes from Famous Smoke; thanks!
Upon first inspection this cigar looks fairly well made. Perhaps it is a little too tightly packed and there are some medium sized veins that run all along the wrapper. Other than that it looks like a good cigar. Maduro wrapper and very stout in appearance. Basically, a nub with an extra inch or so added onto it.
Cigar Stats
Robusto
Length: 5″
Ring Gauge: 60
Wrapper: Brazil
Binder: Indonesia
Filler: Mexico & Nicaragua
Price: $5.75/cigar | $75.00/box of 20
LCS Flagration!
After getting the neighborhood arsonist to help me light this cigar (it is nearly an inch in diameter) I am greeted with some very pleasant flavors. Smoked hickory, a little bit of chocolate and grassy flavors (especially earlier on). There’s also some earthiness to this cigar.
What came as a minor surprise to myself was that this cigar has a good draw. It had felt tight to the touch before I lit it but, now that it is lit, everything is going well. The burn is pretty even having only required a minor touc up about halfway through. Medium bodied for sure.
This cigar is decent. One thing that I just can’t get over, however, about this cigar is that there is this permeating ashy flavor present. It’s like a thin veil over all the other flavors, which are slightly better than average. In the end, that ashy flavor knocks this cigar down for me a couple of pegs.
85 points
Thanks again to Famous Smoke Shop for this cigar! Check ‘em out if you haven’t already.
Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne Cigar Review
First off, you will be able to recognize this cigar by the peach colored cellophane that encapsulates what turns out to be a very light colored cigar. Its wrapper is extremely smooth but not very oily. I have to admit that I accidentally ripped off some of the wrapper when I removed the band. It’s just that the band is gigantic and it needed to be removed if I was going to smoke this cigar comfortably. It is a firmly packed cigar that, knowing how other Connecticut Shade wrapper cigars are, I am not expecting too much from.
Cigar Stats
Robusto
Length: 5″
Ring Gauge: 54
Wrapper: Connecticut Shade
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Price: $5.50
Godlington Flame!
An effortless draw reveals some surprisingly good flavors. Sweetness, wood, some spice and earthy/grassy flavors. There is also a faint hint of coffee grounds. It produces a ton of smoke, is medium bodied and has an even draw.
The Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne is not a procession of good flavors, far from it. During the first half of this cigar it is decidedly un-smooth; ratty would not be too unkind of a term to use.
Sometime around the halfway mark the ratty-ness disappears and for a brief while those good flavors I mentioned earlier are allowed to come through. And then something else negative starts coming through. The best way I can describe it is by calling it metallic.
Without those bad flavors this is still an average cigar. The flavors, the good ones, are, at best, neutral. It’s a fine cigar without those bad flavors but with them it is a cigar that I will avoid.
85 points
CAO Brazilia Samba Cigar Review
One of the things I try to do when doing a cigar review is tell you what I think without being biased by something I have heard or read. This can be difficult because if you go into a cigar knowing that others think very highly of it you will be thinking that that cigar will be very good. Hopefully I do not fall into that trap and I think that this will be an example of that. Onto the review.
Dark cigar with very little oil, which is a point of concern. It does look perfect though. I am drinking Wild Turkey, a Cherry Coke and some water to cleanse my palate. Just to let you know my frame of mind going into this cigar I know that this is supposed to be a very good cigar and full bodied.
Cigar Stats
Torpedo
Lenght: 6 1/4″
Ring Guage: 54
Wrapper: Brazil
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Price: $7.00
Go Fire!
Odd draw. It’s almost like the outer ring of this cigar has a tight draw but there is a good draw in the center of the cigar. Never had that happen before. Overall the cigar has a decent draw.
I am getting an earthy flavor with some spice. I may also be getting some wood notes as well. This is a medium-full bodied cigar.
About an inch in the draw opens up a little bit. The spice is trying to take over but the earthiness is still very strong.
I have to say that these flavors are not all that strong. If I am smoking a great cigar the flavors will just flood my mouth. This isn’t the case here. The flavors here are very subtle. Also, halfway through this cigar becomes more full bodied, however, it isn’t solidly full bodied yet.
Three quarters of the way through and the draw unfortunately worsens. That means the flavors weaken even more and, overall, the cigar just gets worse. I just didn’t like this one all that much.
85 points
