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81461 Camacho Ecuador with thanks to jakethesnake. I've not had many big band Camachos. Nh this one. Rustic very dark brown wrapper with a nice oily sheen. Seems to be rolled very well. Cold draw is perfect.

First light is fairly bitter coffee beans and buckets of pepper. Pepin style pepper black and red. It stings a bit. Settles into an earthy roasted coffee beans with pepper staying in the retro but in more tolerable doses.

Two ash drops it's still the same stuff but reduced. Occasionally getting toasted coconut which is unique. But the texture/mouthfeel is dry. There's no sweetness to balance the earthy tones.

As it smoked past halfway all the big flavors died off and it turned into a generic cigar flavor. Typical STG type thing. Just blah. Multiple touchups to get here too. I tossed it where the big bright blue band once sat. It's not bad, but there's nothing here to warrant another go at these. Wouldn't even be a good yard gar with 4 touchups by midway.

81463 Zino Platinum Scepter Grand Master. After the Camacho I wanted to grab a better Davidoff n friends. Recently had an Avo, so I decided to dip into these.

Golden brown CT shade wrapper with minimal veins and a dull sheen. Probably not the best thing to grab after that full power pepperbomb I just was smoking but whatever, I like a good Connie.

First light is Delta1's buttered shortbread. And that continues through the first ash drop. The aroma is pleasant. The texture mildly creamy but not as rich as I was hoping, maybe it will build. Bready, sweet nuts, butter, a slight mineral note on the finish. Maybe even cubanesque.

A little more cedar and spice come up and play nicely with the sweet notes. Burn is perfect. Body is pretty thin. Texture could be richer.my A&W cream soda is helping but I think the Camacho is hurting this one with residuals.

After the halfway point this baby turned on me. It moved. Turned the spice up big time, and brought more butter rich texture that lasts. More minerally finish, more smoke, more sweetness to balance more spice. I'm loving it.

Overall an excellent cigar. In the same lane as other good Davidoff I've had.

80900 - Rojas Street Tacos Carnitas

The delay is tearing the ass outta me. Sorry fellas

81465 illusione Rothschild from tele. Good smoke been awhile since I’ve had one. I still like em. Thanks buddy

This was my first Caldwell ever. I thought it was peppery on first taste and that lasted until the last third, though in the middle it was more like a mix of peppery tastes. Not much broke out for me. I thought I caught a hint on vanilla on two puffs in the middle and a couple slight, very slight hints of anise. But none of these flavors showed more than hints and just on a couple draws. Predominant flavor of plain brown cigar tobacco, mild “body” of smoke and didn’t seem to have a strong nicotine profile, which is fine and dandy with me. I think it was well constructed with the exception of a slightly soft cap, not too much to complain about though. The pigtail was nice and tight and snapped off clean as you please. The wrapper was medium brown, medium shine…meaning not very shiny but not matte either. The wrapper had fine veins that I thought were quite nice looking, it held its ash and burned at a moderate comfortable temperature. Not much aftertaste and no flavors really stood out. I was expecting something more creamy and nutty or toasty to go with the pepper. I was a little disappointed because I thought I was going up the ladder one rung from my last month’s diet of Gurkha and Rocky Patel. Based on this one stick, I’d have to say Caldwell is keeping good company with those. Perhaps the others will be better.

There's a step up from your gurkhas and RPs

81468 - Diesel Shorty Unholy Cocktail ---Heard they weren't good, but I kinda liked this little 2&1/2 year old guy. Not the overpowering smoke I expected.

81470: Camacho Trip Mad Romusto
My second time smoking this. The first one was bitter tasting, very stiff and hard, tight draw, long cone on the cherry. This one wasn’t bitter, wasn’t stiff and hard, had a nice draw and even burn small pyramid cherry. Started with pepper and a wee bit ‘o sweetness. Second third transitioned to that salty-savory umami flavor that I love and the sweet part had a slight toasty edge. I didn’t like the first one but the second one was good. I can’t help but think that the first one wasn’t rested long enough at proper RH and that the remaining 3 out of this fiver will be even better. JGRAZ sent me one in a noob package and it is probably older than the ones I’m smoking now, so it will probably be a flavor bomb. Something I’m looking forward to.
It seems like Camacho is not a well-respected brand, or I could be mistaken. I have to say that I think this trip Maduro is quite a tasty and promising smoke for me. But I’m just a noob trying to forge a golden palate 😝

81472 - Buenaventura Cremas C100

Kinda tasted like nicely cured rolled up tobacco. Strange.

Jeebs, I smoke the Camacho Triple Maduro all the time. They definitely seem to improve with a few months (or more) of time in the humidor.

^Thanks, Stogie. I might just let these other 3 nap for a couple months.

81477: RP Royal Vintage

81478 - Caldwell the last tsar

Thank you danm...I knew it wasn't my imagination when I detected it in the Warped Chinchalle I smoked awhile ago!!!

Another one added to the list of post IR acquisitions...

81479: CAO Flathead V660 Carb
Wonderful mouthwatering umami flavor right from the first draw. Strong presence of bitter dark cocoa and espresso bean, mildly spicy and some cedar. Second third flavors hang in there with umami softer but present, a touch of pepper checking in occasionally with leather. The cocoa is more chocolaty and espresso bean more like coffee. Final third everything winds down quickly to just a dark tobacco somewhat earthy and oaky flavor. The first two thirds are where the magic happens. Burns well and if I’m not greedy it doesn’t get too hot or bitter. I will buy this again and I would buy it for a friend who enjoys BL Maduro with full body and plenty of smoke. Not that I have any room to buy additional storage boxes, but any BL ‘Maduro recommendations (or discussion) is most welcome.
I smoked this for about an hour twenty minutes which I thought was quick for this vitola.

81480 - Diesel Whiskey row robusto
81481 - Nicaraguan Cream robusto

81483 - LFD Double Ligero Maduro 452

81485 - Don Carlos #4

81486 - Macanudo Maduro Hyde Park (49x5.5) Moderate smoke production. Mellow. Easy to smoke . Quick pepper blast on retrohale that doesn't linger. Some transition in strength at about the halfway point. Flavors of light coffee, cocoa and maduro sweetness, all fairly subtle with some ramping up past the half point. It's a casual smoke without much in flavor transitions. Probably a good offer to herf with occasional smoker friends who shy away from fuller smokes. 2nd out of a fiver and the first was the same.

I like the Bull Moose maduro but not the other Mooses. They're ok but I think the maduro is way better than its price point. Never aged them tho. I know you sent me one but I done smoked that. Got a few in my stash and I buy them regularly. I normally don't like anything bigger than 50ish ring gauge but these smoke well for 60s.

81488 Illusione Haut 10 toro with thanks to jakethesnake. Never had one but never had a bad Illusione so I've got high hopes and expectations.

Wrote out my stream of consciousness review as I smoked it but accidentally swiped the screen and it refreshed the page and I lost it.

First half was good. Tons of toasty flavors, complex spice and earthiness. Got an hours smoke outta the first half.

2nd half was not. I'm gonna blame it on being in my bulk singles case and not in my desktop I usually smoke from. Ammonia like sour acrid burning came on, then it went out. I clipped it and relit and it would not take a relight. Got a couple more puffs, tried relighting again and it was just all hot and sour.

I'll buy at least another single if not a fiver because I've never had a bad Illusione and clearly this was overhumidified. Dunno how, maybe the 50 singles I added from inbound fivers added too much moisture I dunno. I've not had humidification issues smoking from that case before but I've put about 100 new cigars in there in the past week or so.

Man, I screwed the pooch on that. Will have to revisit.

I shall.

About 45 minutes in I looked up reviews and thought I'm smoking a different cigar than they are. The descriptions and the blend are all things I love but I wasn't experiencing the things they were. Then the halfway point it became clear why.

#81,4NINE1 - Tat L'espirit de Verite 2013

From the TAG! Delta Style sneak attack the other month.

Mahalo Braddah!

The other thread slowed down to a grinding pace. I think it was costing us posts. The post count has really picked up with this new thread.