Saint Luis Rey Serie A – Cigar Review from Cigar Inspector

November 12, 2008 · Posted in Cigar Review · Comment

Cigar Stats
Length: 5 5/8
Ring Gauge: 46
Wrapper: Cuba
Binder: Cuba
Filler: Cuba
Apx. Price: $10.00

The Inspector over at Cigar Inspector always gives great reviews. In fact, he did one today for an older (made before 2000) Saint Luis Rey Serie A cigar. These cigars come from Cuba and, quite frankly, I’m jealous that others get to smoke Cubans whenever they want. I guess I could to, if I knew the right people in Southern California (of which I’m sure there are many who regularly smoke Cubans, I just don’t know them – if you are one please email me at travislindsay@theperfectdraw.com so I can meet up with you and get some Cubans. Thank you in advance).

Anyways, here is the great review from the Inspector:

From the looks, it was impossible to say how aged the cigar was. The wrapper seemed in perfect condition and there was almost no plume to be seen. What worried me was that the cigar didn’t smell. At all. Without further inspections, I unsheathed my cutter and had quite a hard time cutting the stick. I used two wooden matches to properly light it.

The draw was very tight in the beginning, I puffed desperately to get a meagre cloudlet of smoke. Just a hint of spice in this first third which left me unimpressed because of the difficult draw. As I approached the second third, the draw opened up a bit and I was able to distinguish a mix of woody flavors, mostly oak and maple. The smoke was very dry and I needed to regularly moisten my throat with Australian Shiraz (very fruity red wine). The ash was unstable and fell off at about one inch. The finish was very leathery and since I’m not fond of leather flavors, I let it rest in the middle of the last third.

Saint Luis Rey Serie A Vintage Review @ Cigar Inspector.

I just hope that the newer ones are better for the Inspector.

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Twitter List from Cigar Inspector

November 5, 2008 · Posted in Cigar 101 · 1 Comment

[NOTE: I began using Twitter late in '08 and my Twitter username is @Travis_Lindsay just in case you wanted to know.]

Technology is a wonderful thing. It allows me, with virtually no technical experience, to publish information about the cigars I like and other cigar related information (thank you WordPress!). But there’s so much more out there than blogs anymore. For example, there is Twitter.

Twitter is a short format blogging format that allows its publishers to post short little blurbs. Basically, a sentence. And, by looking at the great website Cigar Inspector there is a list of cigar related Tweets already on the web. Here is the Inspector’s list:

@CigarInspector: I will modestly begin the list with my own profile