Kingantz
Growing too fast.
What a day. House filled with the smells of good food cooking on a beautiful Thanksgiving day. We all ate heartily, even Jessica enjoyed some turkey and stuffing with a little gravy. After cleaning up, the wife adjourned to the lazy boy in the living room to put the baby girl down for her nap, and it being Thanksgiving I decided I would smoke something special.
I was fortunate to be granted this smoke from Bryan (Jonesy) in the MAWPIF and owe him a huge thanks for departing with such a cigar. I believe he said it was from around ’95, but we’ll just say mid 90’s. I tried to get the best picture I could of how dark the cello was on this thing. Yes, I do believe it had a little age on it.
It took a little effort as the end of the cello was pretty much stuck together, however I finally got the smoke to slide out easily once opened. There was actually an imprint of the band still in the plastic.
The smoke had a wonderful sweet smell of tobacco and still full of oils. Very dark and rich looking of a piece of old, worn leather. I punched the cap with the smallest ring in case the draw was a bit loose, and found it to be just right so left it at that. Taste was slightly sweet tobacco with a bit of a mustiness to it. I was very much looking forward to putting fire to this cigar.
I grabbed my trusty Zippo (Z-Plus) and had the foot burning in no time. The first couple of draws was extremely powerful and full of black pepper spice. I wasn’t really expecting so much power in such an aged Opus, however it was there. But behind the power was a taste of exquisite smoke, incredibly smooth and cool. Flavors of a rich, bitter sweet cocoa and roasted nuts. After a few draws and a good ash forming, the black pepper spiciness died down to a perfect amount and the smoke really settled in to simply incredible.
The moment was perfect with a peaceful evening and the sun going down behind the trees. A third in and the ash was a medium gray and holding strong with the burn perfect. I have to say this little ‘ol cigar was really putting it to me with the power it had. I knew I should take it fairly easy when taking a draw, but it was so incredibly good I couldn’t help myself. The flavors were quite complex and the finish was long and so very smooth, almost silky.
The ash finally fell when almost reaching the band. I had been sitting up until that moment and decided to get up and stretch my legs. Whew! I hadn’t realized just how strong this thing was until that moment. Oh yeah, I was liking it! Unfortunately, as I went to go down the back steps, I put the cigar between my teeth and touched the tip of my tongue to it. ACK!!! An absolute awful bitterness immediately filled my mouth, and I knew what it was. Sure enough, a huge amount of tar had built up and I got a really good taste of it.
I peeled the band off and continued on after the “incident” and made a huge mistake of taking too much of a draw towards the end. I actually didn’t think I had taken that much in until it was too late. There wasn’t much I could do at that point but hold on to the door frame. :laugh: :blush: I went and sat back down and took a couple more draws and finally had to put it down.
What an incredible experience. Thank you Bryan for the opportunity to try such a smoke. I hope everyone else’s day has been as wonderful as mine!
I was fortunate to be granted this smoke from Bryan (Jonesy) in the MAWPIF and owe him a huge thanks for departing with such a cigar. I believe he said it was from around ’95, but we’ll just say mid 90’s. I tried to get the best picture I could of how dark the cello was on this thing. Yes, I do believe it had a little age on it.
It took a little effort as the end of the cello was pretty much stuck together, however I finally got the smoke to slide out easily once opened. There was actually an imprint of the band still in the plastic.The smoke had a wonderful sweet smell of tobacco and still full of oils. Very dark and rich looking of a piece of old, worn leather. I punched the cap with the smallest ring in case the draw was a bit loose, and found it to be just right so left it at that. Taste was slightly sweet tobacco with a bit of a mustiness to it. I was very much looking forward to putting fire to this cigar.
I grabbed my trusty Zippo (Z-Plus) and had the foot burning in no time. The first couple of draws was extremely powerful and full of black pepper spice. I wasn’t really expecting so much power in such an aged Opus, however it was there. But behind the power was a taste of exquisite smoke, incredibly smooth and cool. Flavors of a rich, bitter sweet cocoa and roasted nuts. After a few draws and a good ash forming, the black pepper spiciness died down to a perfect amount and the smoke really settled in to simply incredible.
The moment was perfect with a peaceful evening and the sun going down behind the trees. A third in and the ash was a medium gray and holding strong with the burn perfect. I have to say this little ‘ol cigar was really putting it to me with the power it had. I knew I should take it fairly easy when taking a draw, but it was so incredibly good I couldn’t help myself. The flavors were quite complex and the finish was long and so very smooth, almost silky.
The ash finally fell when almost reaching the band. I had been sitting up until that moment and decided to get up and stretch my legs. Whew! I hadn’t realized just how strong this thing was until that moment. Oh yeah, I was liking it!
Unfortunately, as I went to go down the back steps, I put the cigar between my teeth and touched the tip of my tongue to it. ACK!!! An absolute awful bitterness immediately filled my mouth, and I knew what it was. Sure enough, a huge amount of tar had built up and I got a really good taste of it. I peeled the band off and continued on after the “incident” and made a huge mistake of taking too much of a draw towards the end. I actually didn’t think I had taken that much in until it was too late. There wasn’t much I could do at that point but hold on to the door frame. :laugh: :blush: I went and sat back down and took a couple more draws and finally had to put it down.
What an incredible experience. Thank you Bryan for the opportunity to try such a smoke. I hope everyone else’s day has been as wonderful as mine!
) I stopped punching them. By and large that seems to have "limited" my tar build-up probelm. I did have some build up with a #2 (torpedo), but with the benefit of the things I have learned here at CP I made another cut and that solved the problem.
