Ok just had my first one of these. Got the ones I ordered from Cbid yesterday, and wanted to give them a tryout so I grabbed one off the top and headed outside.
Nice aroma at the foot, well constucted at a glance, and just a downright good looking cigar. Clipped the cap and placed a match to it. Lit up with no difficulty, nice draw and good taste.
I know that supposedly none of the tobaccos come from Honduras, but the flavor was very Honduranesque (is that a word? LOL). After about 3-4 minutes of puffing away leisurly, I saw a split beginning to happen about an inch up from the burn line of the foot........not too bad but as I continued to smoke, I saw the gar begin to swell towards the split and thought to myself "uh oh this can't be good".
The closer the burn line got, the more pronounced the swelling got, which in turn split the wrapper further and further up the length of the stick. I smoked it as long as I could until the split basically took over the cigar and well....that was that. I smoked about 5/8 of the cigar and would have enjoyed it immensly if my mind wasn't preoccupied with watching the deformation hapening before my eyes. I think I'll have to let the rest of the sticks sit for a few months in the humidor to settle down to my humidity of 67% as I think the problem was that the cigars were overhumidified at CI.
But it's ok, I got lotsa Gurkhas to tide me over until these are ready LOL (I stocked up on expedition series a while back ).
