The gold's are not a bad smoke. Any CAO annevers.. are better. Cameroon or Maduro. I can tell you this, prior to moving the production to Nicaragua, the maduros were absolutly perfect. Right after the move to Nick Perdomo's place I noticed a major decline in quality from these ciagrs. So much so, I wrote a letter to the Ozenger family. I went into great detail over the differences between the old and the new. One of my major complaints was that the new cigars were not rolled and box pressed properly resulting in quick, hot burns. The bottom line was, the new cigars sucked. To CAO's credit, they replied at great length and followed up on my concerns with detail. They even sent me new cigars to try. I waited a month or so for the inventories out in the market to deplete before buying again. Since then I have nothing but perfect cigars from Nick's factory. I say this because one, your comments are ironic and two, your bad experiences may have been during this time (DEC-MAR)Give em another shot. I am curious if your opinions change.
