These have one of the prettiest wrappers around. When I got these they had the oiliest, shinny like patten leather look to them. They still look like that in dull light, but put a little light on them.

Nobody every asks for these in a trade.

"ever" that should be not "every".

Damn . . . look at all that plumb.

I have a few of these in the torpedo size. The wrapper is very unique, very t-h-i-c-k and oily. I have had some construction problems with the torps but if I can get a good burn and an easy draw I'm in heaven. Great price too.

David

Oh, and I've also noticed that these wrappers have a very strange texture, very toothy and coarse. Have any of you noticed this?

David

Not your average Connecticut wrapper, certainly not smooth. Something else unique about these is the prelite aroma, cinamin/nugmeg scent.

This smoke(not this stick) was actually the first smoke that I was able to do an ash-stand, starting with at 2" picking up and setting (ash) down a bunch of times, ash fell off at the 1" nub.

The only other stick I've had an ash that tough was on a Fuente Sungrown, it fell over when I tried the stand.

If you try them, you maybe pleasently suprised... or not.

J

Special seed wrapper not grown in Conneticut.

SteveR should know more. The pick looks great.

All that plumping on it. LOL

How long have you owned that cigar?

update: Special seed wrapper not grown in Conneticut in a long time.

2-24-04, checking my invioces. That's right I still every invoice from the last 4 yrs.

I couldn't find the one I wanted to shoot, this was the next best.

So I fired one (4.5 x 52 rothchild) up today on the walk home from preschool, the draw was tight but still worked. Very hard to light with my cheesy paper matches, very windy at the time. After the struggle of lighting and the tight draw, the flavor was on. The first 1/2" the ash expaned out and split, probably due to uneven light, ash was grey and brown swirls w/ the tiny pebble look to it. The burn evened it self out by the time the 1" to the point of being strait as a razor, draw had not gotten any easier though, I found a small twig and reamed the smoke, did not help. The 2" mark was reached, the draw was still tight but working, the ash remained strong, taste remained consistant. My little stoll was nearing its completion, and dangit the ash fell off at the 3" mark just two doors down from home and the camera, dang wind, draw never did improve, which was disapointing, but the taste did not waver. I smoked about 1/4" more and set it down w/ about an inch left. My little boy, 2yrs old, was unhappy due to the lenght of walk(20 mins) and wind chill on this rare bright sunny day.

I will let all you decide weather the experience was good or bad, oh and the taste was tobacco, not coffee, vanilla, spice, chocolate, nor was it nutty nor creamy, but more of a leathery cedar.

J

Connecticut Yankee Cigars

by Victor Sinclair

The name given to this brand is not only derived from the well-known Mark Twain novel, but also the cigar's wrapper. It has a sumptuous, oily, Havana-Seed, Connecticut-grown leaf wrapped around an excellent blend of premium Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco. This wrapper leaf is neither shade or broadleaf. It's a strain of tobacco that hasn't been grown for about 100 years.

The Connecticut Yankee has an enticing pre-smoke aroma and nice heft to it. The burn is slow and even. It's full-bodied with straight-forward flavors of rich tobacco with some nice complexities of spice and cedar.

More on this wrapper and other cigars that use it --

Dark Knight, the most robust cigar in the Excalibur 1066 series and unlike

his Cameroon-wrapped comrades, he’s armored in a very unique,

extra dark Connecticut-grown wrapper.

The wrapper looks just like a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, but it’s

actually a rare Havana seed Connecticut leaf that was commonly grown

in the Connecticut River Valley during the 1880s. These plants yielded

a very dark tobacco leaf and were much smaller in size than the broadleaf

wrappers used on most maduro cigars today, which come from a strain of

Maryland seed introduced to the Windsor Valley in the early 1830s. The

Maryland broadleaf wrapper had bigger, thicker leaves and produced much

bigger harvests, eventually replacing the more predominant Havana seed

Connecticut leaf.

The Havana-seed Connecticut tobacco evaded extinction when General

Cigar began using the leaf as binder in its Macanudo Robust cigars. They

also use this leaf as the wrapper for their Partagas Black Label cigars.

Two of the most appealing qualities of this ebony-hued leaf is that it is

very oily by nature and its also virtually vein-free, therefore much

smoother in appearance.

I just checked on mine. They don't look like that ...yet.

Not a bad smoke , Like smoking a cartoon.

My Partagas Black, and Dark Knight, don't look like this. Here comes another pic.

J