Rocky Patel Vintage 1992 Short Cigar Review
Pre-Smoke: It looks good but it is very dry. The cigar is also a little soft to the touch. Not veiny at all. Looks good.
Smoke: It starts out with some bade tastes that last for less than a half an inch. Then it morphs into a warm and inviting cigar. With it’s great draw and even burn this is shaping up to be a very good cigar.
Molasses dominates the flavor profile for this cigar. There is also a smokiness that I like to it. Deep flavors.
4 points
CAO L’Anniversaire 1968-1998 Cameroon Belicoso Cigar Review
This is the torpedo vitola and I have smoked the robusto vitola in the past. I gave that cigar 90 points, here’s what I had to say about it:
Lots of smoke and an excellent draw. There is spice, which tastes like red pepper flakes, and the flavors are crisp – not muddied down at all. The flavors just explode on the tongue. It is medium bodied.
That was one of those I smoked a while ago so my notes were a little sparse. Here’s my review of this cigar that I thought was even better.
Milky brown wrapper. Good amount of oil with a box press, which I have grown to really appreciate. Perfectly good construction, no problems with it. Drinking Makers Mark with some water.
Cigar Stats
Torpedo
Length: 6″
Ring Gauge: 54
Wrapper: Cameroon
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Price: $8.50
Afternoon de-Light!
Peppery and leathery. It has a perfect draw. Warm, moist smoke. Medium-full bodied with a bias towards being more full bodied.
Slightly salty undertones. There is also this molasses-like sweetness to it. Very complex array of flavors.
Inch in now. The molasses sweetness, which is very rich and deep and is actually quite good is the main flavor now. Next is spice with a small side of saltiness. Still a very most cigar and the saltiness isn’t anywhere near the point of being a nuisance.
A third of the way through and the saltiness is gone. It’s a net plus that that flavor has left but it wasn’t too much of a problem since all the other flavors are great. The burn is fairly even, haven’t had to touch it up.
Nearing the end now. I love this deep, molasses sweetness because there’s also some peppery flavors remaining. It really is an enjoyable cigar. The complex flavor profile stays for nearly the whole length of the cigar.
92 points
Other Takes:
It got great ratings from Epinions.com
Blank Mind Blog gave the toro vitola a 9.3/10 saying “From the initial light up the C.A.O L‘Anniversaire 1968-1998 Cameroon Toro teased my palate with a toast and straw base and slowly built up a caramel sweetness. I noticed that the caramel revealed itself when I rested the smoke for more than a minute or two. The sweetness would last for several draws before crossing back over to the toast and straw flavor.”
5 Vegas Miami Churchill – Cigar Review
Cigar Stats
Length: 7″
Ring Gauge: 48
Wrapper: Nicaragua (corojo)
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua, Dom. Rep.
Approximate Price: $9.00
Alright, this is a fairly expensive cigar so it better be good!
Looks like a very well made cigar and it has a good amount of oils. There really isn’t anything not to like about the way this thing looks. Perfect.
Flame!
Full disclosure: Usually I drink Wild Turkey and a Cherry Coke when I smoke a cigar. Tonight, I am drinking a Ricardo’s Red Rocket Ale from Bear Republic. I went to BevMo looking to see how large their selection of whiskey is nowadays, which is paltry, and bought a six pack of Bear Republic beer. The flavors of this beer are fairly strong (supposedly it got 95 points from some group though).
Now onto the cigar!
Loads of spice and tobacco at first. Good draw. Fairly strong cigar. Hint of molasses as well. Standing up well to the beer.
This cigar is staying true an inch in. Very good cigar. It isn’t a great cigar because there is this faint but easily perceptible harshness underlying every puff.
And then things fall apart. I just smoked this cigar a couple of days ago and the experience is still pretty fresh in my mind. Either the cigar just went bad or the flavor of the beer just overpowered the cigar. My guess is that the cigar actually went bad.
I only had one beer for the whole hour+ it took me to smoke the cigar. I wasn’t getting that much of a bias from the taste of the beer.
The spice from the cigar remained strong even though the harshness took over. It does burn very evenly. And even though there is a lot of harshness the flavors that are coming through are enjoyable.
What was good about this cigar was mostly overshadowed by what was bad. In the end it was just too harsh for my liking. I vacillated between giving this cigar a score anywhere between an 83 and an 87. In the end I just couldn’t say that this was a good cigar – solely due to the harshness of it.
84 points
