First look. some kind of funny yet elegant disguise. Remove. Check. Band went with the paper.Clip and Smell. Could be the reason why the paper is there because once removed, it gave an exciting aroma of cigarness. Soft and lingering.
Size. Fits between the fingers. Almost like the size of my 'up yours' finger. Good size between the teeth. Nibble, slobber, roll around with ease.
Pre-light Draw. Sweet.
Light my fire. Won't go into much detail about the experience because I felt it was a good consistent full tobacco flavour with a smooth mellow taste the whole way through. Good draw right at the start then hit a tight knot like puff of about five in the first section then went back to that pleasant draw for the rest. Complexity was not there and if anything picked up almonds and earth.
Conclusion. Lovely evening stroll smoke after an espresso with bit more time than a little 15 minute pinner. I would give it a 7.0 but with the prezzie paper giving you so many options......
Using every part of the cigar......
I think it deserves a big 8.0
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ReplyDeleteThanks Joel, made my mouth water. That picture of the coffee is also quite powerful when you're stuck in the US and they give you the weakest diner coffee everywhere you go. You can drink 5 cups and not even notice there was any coffee in it! Watching the espresso cream out of that machine in your picture is brilliant. Brunch when I get back yea? Bacon, banana maple syrup french toast please :) PS- All I've got left is 3 little hoyos. Had the epicure especial at night-time at a park with a beaut view of Seattle last week. Magic.
ReplyDeleteYour camera takes good pics bro! is it a reflex? Anyway i'm glad your Fonseca KDT had a good draw, half of them are too tight... i should know i tried one yesterday and could hardly get any smoke. They are full of tasty tobacco, top notch stuff imho, maybe the next one i will chop up and make a ciggy with rice paper as suggested!! (if i had a pipe i'd smoke it that way)
ReplyDeleteWe've just inherited the orewa coffee machine which make life, hehe better. Yeah my trusted old Nikon DSLR is the eyes on the cigars. Maybe we can set up a side blog for all the tight draws and post comments on how they performed chopped up in a pipe. Rocking chairs would have to be a must.
ReplyDelete(I think I wrote this after smoking one with either Greg or Scott a couple of months ago)
ReplyDeleteThis was a tight drawing cigar, as expected, but fortunately unlike some of the others it was not a complete butt plug. We noticed that the bitterness of that these already have has grown a bit stronger in the first third, not unpleasant as long as you have something sweet at hand e.g. biscuit or chocolate. Otherwise the nice cinnamon, oily nutty almond type flavours, are all still there, and it was quite enjoyable. Maybe the bitterness will recede again with age, maybe it will grow... who knows? Probably best to smoke them now.
p.s.: NOTES ON PLUGGED CIGARS
With these in particular, and with any other tight cigar, if they are plugged, chances are it will be right at the top (smoking end). Squeeze them along the full length to find out where the knot is, if its at the top, just chop it off slightly below and voila, you should have a smokeable cigar. Just be careful that it doesn't unravel on you.