- Pre-draw: liquorice taste and horse stable smell
- First half: easy draw; subtle flavours; green capsicum aftertaste
- Second-half: dung taste 3/4 of the way through; becoming more edgy with cocoa, leather, persimmon and what we agreed tasted like 'dust flying in a stable around cows'.
Here's Joel embracing the cigar with flamenco intensity:
got my horses and cows and sheds and stables mixed up but you get the picture
ReplyDeletegreat pics especially the first one ... i must admit a penchant for peencil-theen moostaches. hoh-hhhon-rron-hon. sounds like it was an interesting cigar.
ReplyDeleteon another note, for those of you who may not know, the irony of the non-cuban cigar with a brand name of "la Gloria Cubana" originates in the Cuban Revolution.
Fidel Castro (a jonny-come-lately communist) and his crew (who probably taught him a few things about marx just as he took power) overthrew a dictator who had a cosy relationship with Yankee capitalists. Dixit JFK: 'Batista [dictator] was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the U.S. Now we shall have to pay for those sins'. JFK himself had to pay by giving up his beloved H. Upmann petit coronas with the embargo, after his attempt to exempt cigars failed in the face of opposition from the US cigar industry. The Cuban revolution turned communist and all the cigar factories and their brands were nationalised. Many of their owners left Cuba but started their own factories elsewhere (Dominican Republic, Nicaragua). U.S. tobacco giant General Cigar cunningly trademarked many cuban brand names in the US - like La Gloria Cubana or Cohiba - in the '70s. Since then numerous lawsuits by cuba's Habanos S.A. have failed in US courts, resulting in the duplication of brands we have today...
Although the tache may be the most unusual trend of manscape, I do consider myself lucky that I rid all my midlife crisis's when I still look in youthful form.
ReplyDeleteI thought the best thing about this cigar was it's impressive size matched with an impressive draw. This equalled great ash and form which left consistent plumes of smoke from start to finish. It felt like the cigar had it's own set of lungs to prevent choking while we waffled about whether or not it was horse stables or sheep yards.