Ok, here's the results.
I lit up the Perla del Mar. It wasn't an easy draw at first, but it wasn't too bad. I didn't think much about it at first. Down into the end of the first third it was smoking easy and starting to taste pretty good. It was very mild, but had some very good flavor. I had read a couple of reviews earlier that were favorable. And I have to agree, something about it was just good. I think the reviews mentioned a caramel taste. I didn't get that until the last third. It was very tasty at that point. Then I looked down at my watch and realized I had been smoking it for an hour and a half!
Then I lit up the Punch Rare Corojo. What a disappointment! It wasn't an easy draw to start. I kept at it and then discovered it was tunneling like that floating turd in Star Trek that was flying through space gobbling up planets. I grabbed my open cutter that I keep at the Vets Hall and cut the end off about a half inch from the cherry. After that it started smoking ok, but it still had a little tunneling going on. The flavor at that point was pretty good however. But it was a hassle.
Since that only lasted for about a half hour I went ahead and lit up the AF 8-5-8. It didn't have an easy draw at first either. I squished around on it and it got better, but at that point it was just like... an ok cigar.
All this time I was listening to a new Pandora channel.... Merle Haggard. :-) Some Merle, too much Willie and Waylon and the boys, some Johnny Cash, Dwight Yokum, Hank Williams, HW Jr, Ray Charles, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson, George Jones, etc. That was all good and made me think back to some good times at some rural honky tonks in Texas and a couple of places sin St. Louis.
