by | February 4, 2021 · 9:42 pm

Alec Bradley Project 40 Maduro Toro Cigar

I’ve been scrounging around for new cigars again, and I had bought some of the Alec Badley Project 40 Maduro Toros from Scotty’s Cigars a few weeks ago and figured I’d smoke a few ad see what they were all about. To digress a little, I had mentioned that I was having some dental discomfort recently, and visited the dentist this afternoon and he referred me to the endodontist who will probably do a root canal or tw

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o. This is better than having to have it pulled, and one of the teeth causing the problem already has a porcelain crown from a previous chain dental practice I visited during a period where my usual dentist wasn’t in my dental plan. LEsson LEarned there. At least the cro

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wn is good. A tooth extraction would negatively impact my ability to enjoy

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a cigar for an extended period of time, and we can’t have that! Enough about my problems. The downside was, I missed out on joining in on the Kaplowitz Radio Round Panel, of which I’ve been taking part recently. This is a Podcast which is part of the Kaplowitz Media family of podcasts which I find entertaining. How much I personally contribute remains to be seen. I’ll try again next week. This is also why today’s post is a day late. Back to the Project 40. I haven’t tried the “Natural” wrapper version yet, but I will hunt some down. 

 

The Project 40 Maduro has a San Andrés wrapper, a Brazilian Habano binder and Nicaraguan fillers. The Toro is 6″ x 52. I’ll preface this by saying that I generally keep my humidors on the dryer side, but the humidor these cigars were in is sitting around 67%, and something I really hate is when cigars smoke on the over humidified side. This is one reason I tend to check cigars with the Humidimeter, and this cigar measured 65% at the foot, and I think 63% is ideal. Heavier tobaccos hold more humidity than thinner tobaccos, so two cigars in the same humidor can smoke differently, and a little too much moisture can cause a “steamy” quality to the smoke. Like I said, I hate that. Despite the cigar smoking a little on the wet side, which I’ll take responsibility for, this was a nice tasting cigar. The interplay of the Mexican and Brazilian components gives it a nice, meaty spice, with some heavy espresso. I have one more that I’m going to put in a much dryer humidor and get

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to it in a few months, I’m sure it will be really nice. The price point is really attractive too, at under $7.  

 

That’s all for today, until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

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by | January 31, 2021 · 9:17 am

Viaje Fifty Fifty Red Cigar

Here’s a throwback cigar for you. Back around 2011, I guess, Viaje Cigars came out with the Fifty Fifty, and it may have been one of the first cigars that brought the brand some recognition. This was supposed to have two distinctly blended cigars meshed together, as I remember it. It was a bit of a gimmick. At the time, I would have liked to have tried the cigar, but it wasn’t available around anywhere, and I wasn’t one to chance stuff like that down, nor was I spending the kind of cash they were asking for it. Times have changed some, I still don’t chase, but I don’t mind spending a little more on cigars now days. I picked this one up from Scotty’s Cigars recently, they seem to have some interesting cigars in their shop, as long as you get them on the phone. So I smoked this cigar this week, and, judging by the fact that I can still taste and smell stuff, I don’t think I have Covid.

 

The No. 3 is a 7” x 47 Churchill with a pigtail cap, and may have had a slight arc. Otherwise, for what might have been a nearly decade old cigar, was very nice looking. There was one minor wrapper tear, which had no effect on the smokability. The cigar is a Nicaraguan Puro with a Criollo wrapper. The first half was a little nutty with some cocoa. It was pretty mellow, but very nice, overall. Smoking a cigar like this prints expectations, so I was looking for a change at the three inch mark or so, Son-of-a-gun if I didn’t get a strong floral flavor at about three and a half inches, which complimented the cocoa nicely. This was a really interesting cigar, which I’m glad that I finally got the chance to smoke! I haven’t gotten to smoke many Viaje cigars, they all seem to be small batch, limited releases that I’m not willing to hunt down, so I don’t worry about them much. This one I remember being fascinated by and when I found it at Scotty’s I made sure to grab it. It was quite cool, and the second cigar this week to hit me with a floral change, which is definitely unique for me.

 

That’s all for today. I know it’s an unusual Sunday post, but I find myself with a toothache which is making me miserable, and a pending snowstorm which is messing with my migraines. I kinda just want to go back to bed! Be careful out there, until the next time,

 

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by | January 27, 2021 · 9:19 pm

Mavros Revolucionario Especial Cigar

Several weeks ago a gentleman named Manuel Mavroleon, the founder of Mavros Cigars in Mexico, contacted me and wanted to send me a sample of his cigar. I was intrigued, considering when I started smoking cigars back in the mid-90s, it was Te-Amos that were the cigars I started with. Don’t laugh, at the time, I really enjoyed the

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maduro Te-Amos, they were readily available, and my father-in-law, who was one of my early cigar mentors, was a fan of them. LIttle did I know that one day the wrapper one these much maligned cigars would be one of the most sought after wrappers. Te-Amos were Mexican puros, which may have been part of the problem amongst aficionados, they were extremely earthy and one dimensional. At the time Mexican cigar makers couldn’t import other tobaccos, so it was puros or nothing. Te-Amos were very popular, by the way. Anyway, I was intrigued by this, and I received one sample in the mail, from Mexico, presented in a small cardboard box. The cigar is called the Mavros Revolucionario Especial, a  6 ½” x 40, with a fairly unattractive natural wrapper. I received the following information from Manuel:  

 

I have sent you a Revolucionario especial. This cigar is one of my favourite Mavros vitolas, as it was crafted to recreate the cigars smoked by Mexican revolutionary generals – both in size, ring gauge and flavour. 

The Revolucionario especial has been compared to a Trinidad Fundadores by aficionados, in that it has a smooth draw while maintaining a unique and strong flavour palate, with coffee and chocolate aromas throughout the cigar, and with some spice. The final 1/3 of the cigar has a distinct flavour, with the spice picking up and the introduction of a bitter almond aroma that is unique to Mavros.

 

The first two thirds aren’t bad, but it was distinctly unMexican. It wasn’t at all like I remember the natural wrapper Mexican puros tasting. It had some sweet woody flavor. I fail to see the comparison the the Trinidad Fundadores in flavor and size, but it has been many years since I’ve smoked that cigar. When I got close to the band it got really interesting. A sweet, floral flavor kicks in, really interesting. That sweet floral flavor intensified and almost became cloying. It’s a good thing that this flavor waited until the end, it might get tiring after a while. The flavor is like nothing I’ve encountered in a cigar, I don’t know quite how do describe it except for floral. I’ve heard that the proposed price  for this is on the high side, and I’m not sure I’d pick this up based on the presentation. The band and the cello, which was wrapped much like a machine made cigar, don’t sell the cigar to me. Smoking it, maybe it is special enough to get that price, I don’t think I’ve smoked a cigar with such a uni

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que and interesting flavor before, and I can’t find fault in the construction. It really was a fun cigar to smoke. 

 

That’s all for today, until the next time, 

 

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by | January 24, 2021 · 10:24 am

A L’Atelier La Mission 1959 and Other Various Cigars

I had ordered a A L’Atelier La Mission 1959 from Scotty’s Cigars last week (unfortunately they only had one left in stock or I would have gotten more), and I’ve been trying to smoke some of the cigars on Cigar Aficionado’s list that I hadn’t smoked before. I must have smoked another La Mission somewhere along the line before, as I found a band while wading through thousands of bands for my wife who is working on a cigar band table project. More on that as it nears completion. I will say that going through all the bands I’ve saved it’s pretty amazing to see what cigars I’ve smoked. Some I don’t remember! I find a band and think, what the hell is this?

 

The L’Atelier La Mission 1959 is a 4¾” x 52 box pressed robusto-ish cigar with a pigtail cap. It has a San Andrés wrapper and Nicaraguan binder and fillers and is made at the My Father factory in Esteli. I had originally selected another cigar that was a toro size, as I thought that I wanted a longer cigar (as I usually do). To my great disappointment, when I checked the internal humidity with my Humidimeter, it had arrived a little on the humider (not a word, I know) side than I’d like, so I decided to let it (all three measured the same, by the way, and were the only these in the shipment of ten cigars that were high) sit in the humidor to dry out for a whil

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e. The Humidimeter has saved me from disappointment on many occasions. It turns out that the La Mission 1959 ended up burning for well over an hour and fifteen minutes, filling the time I had allotted for a cigar perfectly, allowing me to watch the Flyers game inside on the TV instead of on the iPad (it turned out to be a horrific game, my time would have been better spent having another cigar and playing solitaire). The La Mission 1959 was awesome. It has some strength, with rich cocoa and some spice, but it’s refined. I very much enjoyed it and it’s certainly worthy of mention on the CA list. I just wish Scotty’s had more in stock when I made my purchase!

 

Funny enough, a few of my cigar selections over the last few days were predicated on my wife

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’s table project, and her being short a band and it being easier for me to smoke a cigar rather than sifting through years worth of bands. At one time it was like archaeology, I put them in a vase, and based on the layers, if I had an idea when I smoked a cigar I could find a band. I’d periodically dump the vase, bag up the bands on the bottom, and try to maintain the integrity of the timeline. This project has disrupted the dig, and the spoils pile is all over the place. I’ve found bands from 15 years ago near bands from last week. It’s ridiculous. I don’t know what to do any more. I may have to start writing the date on the back of each band. The has been a small glimpse into my cigar pathology. That being said I smoked an Epic Corojo and a Freyja Valhalla that were outstanding. I need to find more Freyjas, they seem to be rare these days. There used to be a couple of local sources that had them, I’ll have to check around. Epic, of course, is now under the Zander-Greg company, but I only have a bunch of old cigars hanging around. I don’t expect they’ve changed, I believe they are still produced in the same factory, the factory that Kristoff Cigars are made in.

 

That’s about all for today. Until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

 

 

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by | January 20, 2021 · 9:23 pm

Rocky Patel Dark Dominican Toro Cigar

Today I’m going to feature the Rocky Patel Dark Dominican Toro. Oddly, Roc

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ky Patel cigars don’t regularly feature here, and I’m not sure why that is. There are several cigars in the portfolio that I enjoy, unfortunately, the ones I like tend to get discontinued. One that comes to mind was the oddly named Super Ligero. I really liked that one, apparently I was one of the few. A good friend and loyal reader, PJ, sent me a few of these cigars because he had a hunch that I’d enjoy them. PJ and I met up last year whe

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n I visited Miami, and we do have the same taste in cigars, although I believe his palate is more refined (which I’m sure he’d argue). I am not sure what the deal is with this cigar, is it so new that it’s not on the Rocky Patel website? Is it a catalog brand? I’m not sure. I scavenged some details from some retail sources: It has a Maduro Sumatra wrapper (perhaps grown in the DR), Costa Rican binder, and Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers, and is made in General Cigar’s Dominican factory. An aside, in October, it will be ten years since I visited that factory! I have some cigars from that trip that I should ge

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t around to smoking! I can see why PJ was anxious for me to try this cigar! I was very happy to smoke this, as it fit my preferences perfectly. The Sumatra wrapper is sweet, and the maduro fermentation makes it even sweeter. Smoking this is like eating a piece of chocolate cake, it’s dense and rich, and delicious. Both samples I smoked burned perfectly. Thanks to PJ for this and the other great cigars! I appreciate it more than you know! 

 

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CigarCraig 

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