Writing was never one of my strong points but i'm anything but bashful so I'll start it off....
July 4th - Don't expect much as I've spent most of this wonderful day celebrating our country BBQing pork ribs and drinking one or ten beers. As the day wore on I settled into some rum and decided to give one of the two cigars a go. Vegas Robaina Famoso.....48 X 5 5/8..... beautiful looking..... golden brown wrapper....smooth.....good construction...firm. The look of this smoke was perfect. Took a big sniff of this stick and smelt BBQ ribs :0 I should have washed my hands. Snipping the head with my SAK produced a very clean cut. Looking at the filler it appeared tight but when I took a prelight draw, I received air...lots and lots of air. I freshened my drink.... turned on some Doobie Brothers, kicked the cat out of my recliner, got comfortable and toasted the foot. It lit easily.... blew out one short puff and admired the perfect round glow on the foot. Usually a slight relight is required to obtain that full complete glow but not this time. I held it out in front of myself admiring it as up to now it has been a perfect cigar. I took my first draw and just like my prelight.....it produced lots of air. Along with the air came volumes of smoke.... almost too much smoke. I had to search for the correct force of draw to give this cigar. I was so wrapped up in how I wished the draw was a bit tighter I almost didn't realize that I was getting a very pleasent rich tobacco taste. Nothing overwhelming...not to strong.... more on the light side, but nice rich tobacco. Ash was grey/black that held together in the center but not around the outsides. I was about 1/4 into this cigar and realized I was smoking it a bit too fast. The smoke, lots of it, was getting hot and the rich tobacco taste had subsided. Noticing my drink was about empty I decided to freshing it up and allow the smoke to cool, but, upon returning to my mission, the Doobies were wailing out some "China Grove" and I had to grab my air guitar and join them. My groupie, the wife :love: , was trying to crash the stage but my security, the dogs
, kept her at bay and I was able to finish the song. Upon returning to back stage, I found my cigar had gone out and I had to relight. The relight didn't fair as well as the first light and I had to do a few touch ups. The smoke was still plentiful.... the smooth rich tobacco taste had returned but again, nothing overwhelming, just good tobacco taste. As I approached the halfway mark two thing started happening. First the wrapper started to come undone.
and second, the smoke was turning peppery and starting to gain some strenth. I was enjoying the new taste.... pepper, lots of smoke, and becoming more of a med to med/full body smoke. I had to fight the wrapper as it continued to try and unwrap. About 2/3 of the way the pepper, strenth, and a slight bit of creaminess blended together. I was really beginning to enjoy the taste this cigar had moved to but the wrapper would not cooperate. The burn, understandably, was turning worse as I tried to hold the wrapper together. I was able to make it to 1/4 of the stick before I had to give up. ??? It had pretty much come unwrapped.
I will hold off my final comments until I smoke the second one. I will smoke the second one tomorrow. PHEWWWWW! I need another drink!
July 5th - The look of this cigar was much like yesterdays.... beautiful looking golden brown wrapper. Construction looked solid. This cigar smoked much better then the first. The draw was perfect..... or maybe I should say "like I like it". Easy and solid. It burned perfect thru-out. Ash was solid... held on until I decided to dump it. As yesterdays smoke, it was very uneventful thru the first half of the cigar. Solid smoke....good tobacco taste. Both of these cigars struck me as an early morning cigar with coffee up to the half way point. This is where the cigar changed for me. Like the one I smoked yesterday, I started to get a pepper sting on the lips. It developed into a Med/full strenth cigar. I was really starting to enjoy it. I didn't detect the creamyness I mentioned in the first cigar. I contribute that to the fact that I am drinking water with this smoke as yesterday it was rum. I smoked it down to just under an inch. Never had to re-light it and this one held together.
My take on this cigar is that it is a solid cigar. A bit on the mild side until the second half. Very good tobacco taste. I enjoyed everything about this cigar with the exception of the wrapper coming unglued on me with the first one. I contribute the airy draw, loose ash, and early snuffing of the first cigar to that fact. The second cigar smoked perfect. This would make a great lunch time cigar. Just mild enough in the beginning and building in strenth and pepper in the end.
Thumbs Up! :thumbs:
