February 10, 2021 · 8:45 pm

Tatuaje The Michael Monster Series Cigar

Tonight I was on the Round Panel on the Kaplowitz Media network of podcasts again, which was a free-form discussion of sorts. Give it a listen, my sole contribution seemed to be neighborhood dogs (or wildlife of some sort) bleeding in. My dogs were quiet, I promise. I enjoy the panel, taking part in it is something I enjoy, I’ll try to contribute more. I have I guest spot coming up next week on the Smokin Tabacco podcast. Look for that on Wednesday, February 17. I enjoyed a fairly old La Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Tabaqueros 750, which was outstanding. I have to see if there are any more of the three packs at one of the local shops. Anyway, last night I smoked another cigar that I bought from Scotty’s Cigars, a Tatuaje The Michael Monster Series. 

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Tatuaje The Michael was the 2017 release in the Monster Series, and is a 6½” x 52, most of the Monster cigars are Churchill or Double Coronas. I have only smoked a few of the series, The Krueger and the Wolfman, I think, and a few of the smaller varieties. I don’t chase stuff like this or collect, but I’ll pick them up here and there when the opportunity arises.  Such an opportunity arose, and I picked up the Michael on a whim. This has an Ecuador Habano wrapper, and Nicaraguan binder and wrapper and is made at the My Father Factory in Esteli. This cigar was a bit of a surprise to me compared with other cigars in the Tatuaje range. It seemed more creamy and floral than I expected, with some spice, but not the heavy Nicaraguan spice I would expect. I enjoyed it completely, it was well balanced and sophisticated, definitely medium bodied and quite tasty. Certainly well worth smoking and I’m glad for the opportunity, although it’s not something I’d yearn to have a box of in my humidor, which is probably a good thing, given it’s scarcity. 

 

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

 

CigarCraig

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February 7, 2021 · 10:21 am

A La Sirena Dubloon Salomon Cigar

Once again, I haven’t been smoking newer cigars because I don’t really have a lot of newer cigars. I have some interesting older cigars, but I’ve still been having some dental struggles, so I’ve been holding off on those. I’ll probably get to one of  those this week. I sat in on

a rare (for me) zoom herf with Pete Johnson and his crew last week for an hour or so of his record breaking 14 hour herf and smoked a Tatuaje HCS Maduro No. 1, which is a Holts Exclusive which I had picked up at Holts abo ut 4 year ago. It was really nice, very rich and flavorful. My wife got her hands on a small table that she’s been covering with cigar bands, so every now and then she needs a specific band, so I’ve found my self smoking a certain cigar so she can have the band, which doesn’t bother me at all, since the table will be a reflection of my favorite cigars pretty much based on the volume of bands. Sometimes smoking the cigar is easier than sifting through bags of bands!

 

Yesterday I decided to smoke one of my remaining few treasured La Sirena Dubloons. (I made a

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n obscure reference on my Instagram post to “Old School” which was Danny Ditkowich‘s distribution company, which had some brands such as Jaxx and Staxx, which were acquired by La Sirena in 2014. Nobody got it.)  This is a cigar that La Sirena put out in 2013 as a limited Edition. Instead of the Broadleaf wrapper that was on the original La Sirena (it’s Habano Oscuro now), it has a Habano Oscuro wrapper, and it was made in the My Father factory, which is where all of the La Sirena cigars were made at the time. This is a large 7 ¼” x 56 Salomon which came in boxes of eight. This was a stupidly large cigar to smoke on a February afternoon, but, hey, no time like the present, right? I received these cigars sometime in 2014, so they’ve been resting in my humidors since then and the cellophane was a dark amber. The burn and draw was perfect, even at first lighting, and cigars of this shape can start a little tight. Two hours later and I didn’t want to put it down. Throughout the cigar I had the dense flavors I love in the La Sirena blend: Some spice along with espresso and some earthiness. There was a surprising cinnamon stretch for a minute about half way through, as well. This is a cigar that I’ll never see again, I’m afraid, strike that, I have two more, and an “A” with the same wrapper. La Sirena remains one of my favorite brands, and continues to be one of my site’s longest supporters, something for which I am deeply appreciative.

 

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

 

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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, 

 

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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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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 st

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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 o

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n 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, 

 

CigarCraig

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