A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Bunch more cigar reviews up at Cigar Noob (he says in a shameless bid for hits.)

New review over at Cigar Noob featuring my new favorite smoke.

It was gonna happen.

I’ve copied all my cigar related posts (err… both of them) over to my new blog! (yes that’s #5.)

So go visit Cigar Noob for… well… exactly the same content I posted here over the last couple days.

But I’ll be doing all my cigar-based writing over there from now on.

Another first from the Thompson “classic” sampler, I’m about to light up the Cordova Robusto

It’s a Dominican cigar from Augusto Reyes with a cuban seed long filler and a Dominican Olor binder and Sumatra wrapper.

I noticed a little tear in the wrapper on the end of the stick which I’m pretty sure that’s from my hamfisted unwrapping and boxing.

I did make an effort to ‘calm the hell down’ on my smoking and not draw on it like a… well, you get the idea. This definitely made a difference in my smoking experience, so I’m going to go back over the last few cigars I smoked and try them again with the addition of uncharacteristic restraint.

But the cigar just didn’t have much in the way of flavor. It was neither a pleasant nor unpleasant smoke. I kept waiting for something to happen.

As it burned down the wrapper started peeling away in advance of the light.

While on the phone I let it go out at about the half way point. Just no reason to smoke it. I’m not saving it.

I’d imagine this would be a good smoke for someone who was terrified of smoking. Granted, I’ve had less cigars in my life than I have fingers, but even I am a bit past this point.

I’ve got four more of these taking up space in my humidor. I think I’ll wait a few weeks or a month for the next one to see what happens to it.

But it’s going to be tough to reach for it intentionally, having a bunch of smokes I quite enjoy in the box already.

I wonder if I’m trying to rush into stronger cigars.

Because of the size of this blog, I get an awful lot of google search hits here for this cigar, even though I’ve moved this post (and others on the same topic) over to my cigar blog, Cigar Noob.

Here’s the link to the specific PH 681 post. Enjoy.

(Great cigar by the way ;)

(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.