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Size: HUGE
Wrapper: Mata Fina Brazil
Binder: Honduras
Filler: Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Colombia
Sorry no before pictures this time gents...
But this picture tells without words how well made this cigar is.
And this picture how much I liked it.
Now lets get down to brass tacks.
The Soprano line has been discussed here a few times with most people's opinion running toward "Good cigar, but too expensive." Well receiving one as a gift takes away the guilt factor and lets you concentrate on how good a cigar really is.
Jabba and Zeebra decided to get even with me in a big way for a little sampler I sent them a few weeks ago and as I opened the box and then baggie this stick automatically grabbed my attention by the short and curlies and made me say "DAAAAAMN!" This is a big honking cigar! The CAO site says its 7 x 56 but it looked a lot bigger than that in my sweaty hands.
The Wrapper was ugly as sin and as dark as Tony Sopranos's Pistol. Huge masculine veins ran up and down the full length of the cigar. This thing just screamed I'm a Mutter Fugger and I'm gonna kick your damn ass.
I have to mention the cigar band, its a black shiny oval with C. A. O. embossed in hot flamingo pink, the foot of the cigar is wrapped in a matching pink band with "Sopranos" on it, pretty damn cool looking.
I carefully slipped both the band and the foot covering off the cigar since I planned to try (and I succeeded) to smoke this one into a tower of ash.
I clipped as little as possible from the tip of the torpedo and took a healthy dry draw. Powerful flavors of aged tobacco assaulted my mouth and promised me of the ride to come.
Toasting the foot made my eyes water, this is NOT a mellow cigar gentlemen. Torched it up and sat down to see how well it would burn.
The draw was a bit tight but nothing to be concerned about, its a torpedo after all and to get as much length out of it as I could, I didn't cut it as widely as I normally would have.
Now I must mention the cigar took some shipping damage, the wrapper was cracked on one of the huge veins and a patch of wrapper near the crack was completely missing, this effected the draw and burn not a bit. As you can see from the top picture this in fact caused the cigar to make a wicked curve when it reached the damaged spot.
What can I say about the ash... good god it was like cement! Dense as my bosses head and as gray as New York City on a Rainy Fall day.
And O M G the flavor. Man what a good tasting cigar, this was without a doubt the best C. A. O. cigar I've smoked. The blend is extremely well done, tons of nutty spice and good strong tobacco flavoring through-out. However the beast hid a gentle heart, the taste was never overpowering and it never developed any tar build up even with me smoking it as near vertical as I could for close to two hours.
And I didn't feel dizzy or lightheaded when I finally said to my daughter "Take the picture, its ash is longer than the one from yesterday and my fingers are starting to smoke."
I truly have no idea what these cigars cost, and frankly don't really give a shit. This is a cigar deserving to be in everyone's humidor even if only for a special occasion. Now all I want to do is find a few more.
Highly Recommended :thumbs:
Shawn
And I can not thank Jabba and Zeebra enough for sending me this stick. Thank you gentlemen, it was one of the best I've smoked all year!
Wrapper: Mata Fina Brazil
Binder: Honduras
Filler: Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Colombia
Sorry no before pictures this time gents...
But this picture tells without words how well made this cigar is.
And this picture how much I liked it.
Now lets get down to brass tacks.
The Soprano line has been discussed here a few times with most people's opinion running toward "Good cigar, but too expensive." Well receiving one as a gift takes away the guilt factor and lets you concentrate on how good a cigar really is.
Jabba and Zeebra decided to get even with me in a big way for a little sampler I sent them a few weeks ago and as I opened the box and then baggie this stick automatically grabbed my attention by the short and curlies and made me say "DAAAAAMN!" This is a big honking cigar! The CAO site says its 7 x 56 but it looked a lot bigger than that in my sweaty hands.
The Wrapper was ugly as sin and as dark as Tony Sopranos's Pistol. Huge masculine veins ran up and down the full length of the cigar. This thing just screamed I'm a Mutter Fugger and I'm gonna kick your damn ass.
I have to mention the cigar band, its a black shiny oval with C. A. O. embossed in hot flamingo pink, the foot of the cigar is wrapped in a matching pink band with "Sopranos" on it, pretty damn cool looking.
I carefully slipped both the band and the foot covering off the cigar since I planned to try (and I succeeded) to smoke this one into a tower of ash.
I clipped as little as possible from the tip of the torpedo and took a healthy dry draw. Powerful flavors of aged tobacco assaulted my mouth and promised me of the ride to come.
Toasting the foot made my eyes water, this is NOT a mellow cigar gentlemen. Torched it up and sat down to see how well it would burn.
The draw was a bit tight but nothing to be concerned about, its a torpedo after all and to get as much length out of it as I could, I didn't cut it as widely as I normally would have.
Now I must mention the cigar took some shipping damage, the wrapper was cracked on one of the huge veins and a patch of wrapper near the crack was completely missing, this effected the draw and burn not a bit. As you can see from the top picture this in fact caused the cigar to make a wicked curve when it reached the damaged spot.
What can I say about the ash... good god it was like cement! Dense as my bosses head and as gray as New York City on a Rainy Fall day.
And O M G the flavor. Man what a good tasting cigar, this was without a doubt the best C. A. O. cigar I've smoked. The blend is extremely well done, tons of nutty spice and good strong tobacco flavoring through-out. However the beast hid a gentle heart, the taste was never overpowering and it never developed any tar build up even with me smoking it as near vertical as I could for close to two hours.
And I didn't feel dizzy or lightheaded when I finally said to my daughter "Take the picture, its ash is longer than the one from yesterday and my fingers are starting to smoke."
I truly have no idea what these cigars cost, and frankly don't really give a shit. This is a cigar deserving to be in everyone's humidor even if only for a special occasion. Now all I want to do is find a few more.
Highly Recommended :thumbs:
Shawn
And I can not thank Jabba and Zeebra enough for sending me this stick. Thank you gentlemen, it was one of the best I've smoked all year!
