fudge
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004 4:51:00 PM
A small but perfectly formed short filler cigar with a wrapper aged for atleast 10 years.

Beautiful presentation, cute little AF labels and everything. I gave them a V cut and didn't once get bits of tobacco come oozing out into my mouth. The burn is excellent, occasionally it gets a bit wragged but always corrects itself with no help from me. Mostly the burn is very straight, leaving a respectable length of mottled mid gray ash in its wake.

The draw has so far been perfect on every one I have tried, not too free and not too tight.

And so we move on to the best bit, the flavor. I understand that the trimmings from all the Fuente cigars go into these, so it could be bits of OpusX and DD that are slowly charring away inside that delicious wrapper. This is one of the best tasting cigars I have tried, every one gets smoked down to a half inch because they are just too good to let go of. At about half an inch they take on a strong gasy flavor I don't care for and they get pitched.

They are a great 25 minute cigar.
Cavallo
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 5:50:00 PM
very nice review, fudge!

i picked up a tin of these on my honeymoon so i could have some quick smokes. 🙂 the flavor's definitely all about fuente (i.e. great!), but these were just a little too strong for my tastes. HOWEVER, they could have also been a bit stale as they'd been sitting for a good while (albeit wrapped) at a wine store on the island -- they were definitely not a cigar shop my any means! even so, i remember that they tasted pretty darn excellent.

thanks for the review, fudge! glad that you found a quickie smoke that you like so much, bro. (now that spring's around the corner... go figure, huh?). 🙂