Got home from work this evening to be greeted by a happy wife and a delicious Stoke beer. I thought this was the perfect encourager for trying one of Hadley's Vegas imported cigars.
The story about this one (Hadley, correct if I have said any lies) goes - Hadley went into a building that was infested with clouds of smoke and cigar rolling. As he was browsing with great enthusiasm he accidently tipped one of the rollers $20 instead the $2 he thought he was letting go of. The spanish speaking man's eyes went from the size of Cuba to the size of U.S.A and gestured for him to come and partake in his daily practice. He showed off his rolling skills and invited Hadley to try for himself. Minus the near misses of guillotine strikes millimetres from Hadley's fingers, the end result and experience was a success. 3-4 days later, Hadley returned to be able to buy the pressed cigars that him and his new friend rolled. Note that for the one cigar rolled by Hadley, Mr Pablo rolled about 15-20.
This cigar is fairly rough to touch, smells like dry grass that is on the sweeter side and draws very good. the burn is steady and does not go out. Plumes of greyish to white smoke as most cigars seem to be and an ash that leans more to the whitish flakey/powdery look. My ash fell off just after reaching the first third. The taste was very mild and dry at first then developed some cream only to quickly change into a flavour of... dead leaves, cardamom, something further leafy and other spices I cant figure out. Once reaching the last third it packed a big bite to the taste buds that took me by surprise as the bulk of this cigar was more of a pleasantly savoury and mild puffer. The end
Will send these out for all to try when I next meet up with Greg. It will be a bit of a Willy Wonker story as one of these cigars will in fact have been hand rolled by one of our own! Let see if we can taste the kiwi flavour.
Here is an update of my one tobacco plant that perhaps is trying to reach another land in the sky
