In a recent package, Bassguy included an unbanded robusto.

This wasn't your every-day robusto either, at first glance. A triple cap, awesome construction.....and a faint smell of cedar.

My first thought was ISOM, because of the cap, and the lighter shade wrapper.

I took this cigar along on my road-trip, and somewhere in the Rocky Mountains I decided to burn it up. I had just stopped for some decent gas-station coffee and decided to get "my smoke on".

I clipped this robusto with my SwissArmyKnife, and it had a crisp cut. Not crackly or dry, but also not spongy. No unraveling.

Setting fire to the foot with my Colibri Alpine, brought on a leathery, peanutty aroma.....and that is when I knew this was gonna be a GREAT cigar.

Quickly, I torched...I puffed....and...and...

WOW! Peppery puffs for the first 1/2 inch.

This tastes like a cross between an Opus and a PSD4. A cigar like this is hard not to stare at. Must keep eyes on the road.

Continuing on to the inch-mark, this cigar mellowed out to a creamy Don Douglas type cigar, but better. The spice never went away and had the back of my throat lookin to be extinguished by the coffee. Yum!

The burn was 95% even the whole time smokin it. It just had a little soft-spot that a ran a tiny bit. Did not need torch correcting.

I nubbed the ever-livin-crap at of this cigar.

It had a similar profile as an 858 SG, in that it started spicy, then melloowed out with amazing tastes of the highest quality tobacco....but when you least expect it.....punches yu in the gut if you decide to nub it.


Overall: Awesome Cigar, thank you Tony.

The guess I have may have been spoiled by another recent review that did not get high praise. The HdM#2?
If that is what it was, I love em'.

Dave

Sounds alot like the review of a Tribute...then again the triple cap would not fit in...

RasDas

Joe

Great review smelly, can't wait to hear what it is...

nailed it.

Wow! I am a new member of the Epi#2 club, and very pleased. Great cigar.



Now, on to the BBF club. Hehehe

Was my review fairly accurate? For those who have smoked an Epi#2 ISOM?

PSD4 mixed with Opus?

The bassmaster sent me one of those too. I agree with the peppery part at the beginning, and it did mellow for me too... and I did nub it pretty good, but I didn't enjoy it as much as you did.

As I said before though, thanks to Tony for the experience. He da man.

If it didn't have a faint odor of horse manure it porbably isn't isom. Just my opinion, I may be wrong.

osage they sure do. it's not so faint when you first open em up.

LMFAO at osage

You may laugh ... but osage is right on the money ...

I know.....that is not why I was laughing. All my best ISOM smell fresh from a banyard.

I LMAO because I gaurantee you it was authentic, if it wasn't...I surely would not review it. It had a flawless contruction and I would like to believe that Bass has nothing but the most barnyardy cigars on CBid.

No more threadjacking about validity!

Dave

looks like a hdm epicure #2

it used to be.....and it was goooooooood!!!!!!

Did you find that in a field near the Bobbit's home?

Marla

See this is why I can't keep up with you guys/Ladies. I would have just said "I Liked it" 🙂 Nice review I'll put it on my hit list.
Rob