My 7th Cigar: Thompson Corojo Cubano
Friday, September 25th, 2009(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.
