Looks like these things sell for lunch money (under $2 each) ...

Several years ago they were supposed to be a decent smoke -- Nicaraguan puro rolled in the Plasencia factory. Then Xikar sold the Defiance and HC lines to CI. Has anybody here smoked one lately and if so, was it any good?

I bought two about a year ago. Smoked the first one ROTT and I thought it was awful. Smoked the second one about 2 weeks ago and thought it was slightly less awful. They both had a grassy bitterness that made me wince.