Fonseca Delicias

[jabba]

I smoked a Fonseca Delicias yesterday gifted by CenturyCigar (a generous CDN brother).

It started out amazing for the first 1/3rd, great flavours, tasted like a long filler Cuban RyJ... and slowly started to turn bad after that and then started to taste real bad, I stopped at about 2/3rds.

Is this typically a problem with short filler cigars? Does age fix this problem? I bought a box of Quintero Brevas and all of them have been very good so far, and they don't have much age.

On a side note, I did like the presentation with the Tissue paper protecting the wrapper. This also makes it really easy to remove the bad right away which I usually do.

 

[Ginseng]

I smoked a Fonseca Delicias yesterday gifted by CenturyCigar (a generous CDN brother).

It started out amazing for the first 1/3rd, great flavours, tasted like a long filler Cuban RyJ... and slowly started to turn bad after that and then started to taste real bad, I stopped at about 2/3rds.

Is this typically a problem with short filler cigars? Does age fix this problem? I bought a box of Quintero Brevas and all of them have been very good so far, and they don't have much age.

On a side note, I did like the presentation with the Tissue paper protecting the wrapper. This also makes it really easy to remove the bad right away which I usually do.

I have not found this to be a characteristic of short filler sticks. Some sticks just go wacky after a point. And some are sensitive to how they are smoked and will turn on you if abused. Age tends to mellow things out in most cases. I've been smoking some 1998 Jose L. Piedra Cremas (short filler) and they are sweet and mellow down to the nub.

Wilkey

 

[Gonz]

I have not found that similar problem in any that I've had, but I've only smoked about a box worth, from 04 which were fine. Essentially, they were slightly more than I would expect from a $4 cigar. I also like the presentation with those tissue wrappers.