My 7th Cigar: Thompson Corojo Cubano
(And my first cigar review.)
I cracked in to the first cigar from my Thompson sampler today. For no particular reason I picked up the Corojo Cubano.
It’s definitely a mild smoke. I don’t quite have the cigar vocabulary for those overwrought descriptions. The flavor itself I can best describe as having a leather/woody taste.
Throughought the first third of the smoke I noticed myself overdrawing to try and get more flavor.
The middle third or so it really came to life. The flavor rounded out and was a little bit richer (still pretty mild.) I’m not sure how much of that was my palate acclimating to the stick and how much was a change in flavor itself. But it was very pleasant.
Towards the end the smoke seemed to disappear unless I blew through it to overheat it, which got me the smoke but resulted in overheating, leading to a pretty unpleasant few puffs. I tried letting it sit a bit, but I couldn’t find a happy medium, so I put it out at a little shy of 2 inches.
Verdict: I definitely like the cigar. It’s a bit mild for me in general. Glad I have 4 more of them. Definitely a good score for Thompson
Note: I subsequently saw a review someplace where someone referred to the Corojo Cubano as Thompson’s best house stick, so I may have started at the top. But I’m determined to not let that influence the others.
We’ll see.
September 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Good to see you reviewing your sticks, its always fun to see new smokers get acclimated. I have to agree that of the house blends by Thompson, the Corojo Cubano is their best. If you want to continue with House Blends, try those at cigar.com. They are the same price and much better quality.
Matthew
September 25th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thanks for the tip. I definitely am.
Not having known anything I went for a package deal from Thompson that seemed pretty solid. 5 each of 5 of their house blends + a cherry humidor (which is frankly a far more well made thing than I expected) and a butane lighter for $50.
I’ve got notes about the first 6 but just haven’t put them together yet.