robertvgupta
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So I'm currently in the process of widening my repertory of cigars and fearlessly trying anything new, so I picked up a Nub cigar by Oliva at my local this afternoon, along with my other usual smokes. This one was a torpedo shape, sporting Nub's Habano wrapper.
Nub built their product on the theory that cigars hit their sweet spot between 3.5-4 inches, and that their cigars, which are never larger than 4 inches, not only have the same amount of tobacco as a Presidente or Churchill size cigar, they also smoke as long. To make up for their short stature, the Nubs sport outrageously large ring gauges, from 56-66.
Given the recent hype, I decided to try one, and was quite disappointed.
Prelight: I noticed that the bunching at the foot was uneven and a little uncouth. The cigar seems solid enough, but I didn't like the chunky construction. Wrapper was veiny, and there was a little hole at the pointed head of the torpedo construction; small, but large enough for me to draw through and smoke the cigar if I so pleased. I got the aroma of honey and tea, and thought I was in for a good time.
First 3rd: A medium body smoke, with medium-high spice, and a good amount of smoke. More monotone pepper - but a coarse and unrefined taste that really didn't go anywhere the rest of the smoke.
The website boasts seemingly impossible pictures of fully smoked Nubs standing on the foot of the cigar supported by nothing but thick white ash: this held true, until a strong wind knocked my cigar of the table, but after I retrieved my overpriced investment, I noticed that the white ash was only along the outer girth of the cigar, due to the burning of the relatively decent wrapper - the binder and filler tobaccos sported a darker, gunmetal ash. If this is common, that only speaks to my inexperience as a smoker, but everything I've had so far has a relatively uniform colored ash.
The rest of the cigar started going downhill: the tobacco in this cigar is not particularly spectacular, but with glimpses of greatness; if I sipped lightly, I got some butter and floral hints, but when dragged on deeply, I started receiving burgeoning tastes of turpentine, which, with the increasing heat of the cigar, didn't help the overall experience. When I started tasting a solid precipitate on my tongue, I put the bugger down.
There was a mild recurrence of honey and tea, but my palate was so assaulted by the turpentine that I decided to send this one to the depths after a mere 25 minutes.
That ash did hold, though...
Nub built their product on the theory that cigars hit their sweet spot between 3.5-4 inches, and that their cigars, which are never larger than 4 inches, not only have the same amount of tobacco as a Presidente or Churchill size cigar, they also smoke as long. To make up for their short stature, the Nubs sport outrageously large ring gauges, from 56-66.
Given the recent hype, I decided to try one, and was quite disappointed.
Prelight: I noticed that the bunching at the foot was uneven and a little uncouth. The cigar seems solid enough, but I didn't like the chunky construction. Wrapper was veiny, and there was a little hole at the pointed head of the torpedo construction; small, but large enough for me to draw through and smoke the cigar if I so pleased. I got the aroma of honey and tea, and thought I was in for a good time.
First 3rd: A medium body smoke, with medium-high spice, and a good amount of smoke. More monotone pepper - but a coarse and unrefined taste that really didn't go anywhere the rest of the smoke.
The website boasts seemingly impossible pictures of fully smoked Nubs standing on the foot of the cigar supported by nothing but thick white ash: this held true, until a strong wind knocked my cigar of the table, but after I retrieved my overpriced investment, I noticed that the white ash was only along the outer girth of the cigar, due to the burning of the relatively decent wrapper - the binder and filler tobaccos sported a darker, gunmetal ash. If this is common, that only speaks to my inexperience as a smoker, but everything I've had so far has a relatively uniform colored ash.
The rest of the cigar started going downhill: the tobacco in this cigar is not particularly spectacular, but with glimpses of greatness; if I sipped lightly, I got some butter and floral hints, but when dragged on deeply, I started receiving burgeoning tastes of turpentine, which, with the increasing heat of the cigar, didn't help the overall experience. When I started tasting a solid precipitate on my tongue, I put the bugger down.
There was a mild recurrence of honey and tea, but my palate was so assaulted by the turpentine that I decided to send this one to the depths after a mere 25 minutes.
That ash did hold, though...
