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opelmanta1900 Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 4:24 PM EST
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Had one of these a year back or so - the ones wrapped in tissue paper and stuffed into the black sleeve... as I recalled I really enjoyed it...

well last week I went to a shop that had a brand new box of namakubi ecuadors... I was pretty excited to grab one and light it up... it was pretty much terrible...

maybe not terrible, but not good... no strength - zero strength - until the final third... it reminded me of those awful 1844's I used to smoke... tasted like pencil lead...

I guess my tastes have changed...
shaun341 Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 4:34 PM EST
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Haven't had the namakubi but the 1844 are good especially after a year they taste like chocolate bars to me.
jeferris Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 4:45 PM EST
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Opel...what vitola was it? I've enjoyed the pc size. Haven't had any of the others.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 5:14 PM EST
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I think it was the robusto size... not sure what they call it...
jeferris Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 5:22 PM EST
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Hopefully it was a dud...I've had a box of those resting for a while...
fishy1 Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 5:31 PM EST
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Possible dud? I've had a couple in the PC size. Very flavorful and delicious to me. Spicy, sweet and smooth. I enjoyed it very much
opelmanta1900 Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 5:47 PM EST
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shaun341 wrote:
Haven't had the namakubi but the 1844 are good especially after a year they taste like chocolate bars to me.


I just can't see aging for a year a $2 cigar that starts out already very mild... just my thought...
bs_kwaj Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 6:16 PM EST
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Pencil lead is better in the lancero size.

Huh
shaun341 Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 7:15 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
I just can't see aging for a year a $2 cigar that starts out already very mild... just my thought...



Bought a few when I started out and never got back to them until recently between trying all the stuff I could out there. They were mild recently but thought flavor was strong forget what my initial thoughts on them were. 1 dimensional but a decent 1 imo.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 9:55 PM EST
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right on... I will admit I probably went through 100 of those little ones in my first year of smoking and really liked them back then...

but once I started tasting that pencil flavor I could never smoke one without thinking about that and it just ruined it for me...

now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure it was Pro who pointed out that pencil lead flavor in them and made me realize that's what I was tasting... it's his fault I can't smoke those anymore...
tonygraz Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Sep 1 2014, 10:46 PM EST
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Did you cut one up and look for pencil lead" ?
Sculptor Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Sep 3 2014, 4:56 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
I just can't see aging for a year a $2 cigar that starts out already very mild... just my thought...

Patience grasshopper, drop it in the box and forget about it for a while. Remove from your mind the aforementioned flavor profile when you set another alight. They just keep getting better with age.
Or, as if this a variation of this hasn't been said to death, you and Pro send them to me, I'll smoke 'em in twenty sixteen.
KingoftheCove Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Sep 3 2014, 5:01 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
right on... I will admit I probably went through 100 of those little ones in my first year of smoking and really liked them back then...

but once I started tasting that pencil flavor I could never smoke one without thinking about that and it just ruined it for me...

now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure it was Pro who pointed out that pencil lead flavor in them and made me realize that's what I was tasting... it's his fault I can't smoke those anymore...

you sure it wasn't DP?
Somehow I can't see Pro buying 1844s.........

by the way, the comment above about them being one dimensional was spot on........a mediocre dimension......I was unimpressed by them as a n00b......and now, as a noob, would not consider buying them at their typical price point.........too many other cigars in that price zone that are WAAAAY better
crgcpro Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Sep 3 2014, 5:06 PM EST
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I really like the Namikubi Darumas in the Roxxo and Papi Chulo sizes. The other blends and sizes not so much.
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