Teed,
WHERE did you hear that from?
Seriously, the ones I've got are FABULOUS!\
Spicy, robust, full of life and will burn so evenly it will make you cry when you finally have to retire it. They're just fantastic cigars and I've yet to find any in comparison to them.
By the way, my buddy up in MA that used to make his own cigars and sell them ... died ... great guy. He used to travel 2x year to hand select his own tobacco and then blend it, have it rolled/wrapped, and then shipped back here and sold them out of his shop just outside of Worcester, MA. I used to buy a box/25 for about $175 w/tax but he always cut us a break. Those cigars were/are VERY potent sticks to say the least, but very well-mannered, very unique, very complex.
I think I sent some of those to RICKAMAVEN many years back and that's when he sent me the Cigar Box clock that's in my den now.