Foundry Worm Hole 2014 | Cigar Review

By Cigar Reviews by the Katman on December 5, 2014

Wrapper: Undisclosed
Binder: Undisclosed
Filler: Undisclosed
Size: 5.5 x 50
Body: Medium
Price: $4.75

Today we take a look at the Foundry Worm Hole 2014 Blend from Foundry Tobacco.

There are three blends in the Worm Hole line: 1964, 2014, and 2064. The designer of the Foundry Compounds, Elements & Musings was by General Cigar’s Michael Giannini. This guy is a wild man. He put out dozens of blends under those three topics and refuses to disclose a single leaf stat. And yet stands by the fact that all the tobaccos are very hard to get. And furthermore, has managed to keep the prices in the $5-$6 range across the board. He also went nuts with the packaging coming up with some of the most original cigar boxes ever made.

Clearly, Giannini was no stranger to weed and acid in his youth. (Let’s see who runs with this, and how fast, back to Giannini).

The name of the cigar needs no explanation if you are over 4 and know how to read.

One thing Giannini did that was kind of cool is make sure each stick had some sort of Cracker Jack toy wrapper around it. The Worm Hole has a ring with multi-faceted sections representing the….?? The worm hole. Don Pardo tell our winners what they’ve won.

All sticks are either a 5.5 x 50 or a 6 x 52.

Construction is solid. Packed nicely. No soft spots. Tight seams. A few veins here and there. The cap count is difficult as they are applied so expertly. May be a double cap. May be a triple cap. Can’t tell. And Giannini ain’t tellin’.

No one outlet, that I could find, has all the Foundry’s 13 blends. Except for Corona Cigar.

I clip the cap and find aromas of spice, sweetness, cedar, cocoa, wood, and leather.
Time to light up.
The first puffs are extremely sweet. Almost as if the tip was artificially sweetened. It is not. I really doubt Giannini would put so much love and care into his blends and then dunk one in sugar.

Immediately, a strong caramel taste arrives. Fruity elements compete. The draw is spot on. Speaking of sugar, there is a combo of brown sugar and sugar cane components. I take it back about the sugar cane. It is fruity.

It is also toasty. And nutty. I stop typing and just sit here smacking my lips. What the hell are all these flavors I can’t get a handle on?
Ever eat a waffle with no syrup? That is one flavor.

The char line is perfect. The strength is barely medium bodied.

I’m drinking water with my review today. But I swear I taste those little cola gummy bears.

A musty, perfumey element arises from the deep. Like being at grandma’s when you were a kid.

I feel like a detective. I will not allow this blend to outguess me.

Sweet cedar and oak show up next. With slight herbal and savory notes.

The Foundry Worm Hole 2014 is turning me into a crazy person.

Wood notes jump to the forefront along with a rich earthiness.

There is no complexity. No balance. And it has a semi, pseudo, partial, psychotic long finish.

Is that bacon? Something smoky appears. And it tastes like bacon.
Dial 911. Dial 911. Dial 911.

I should check other reviews to see how off I might be. But that would deprive you of the pleasure of watching me make an ass of myself.
This is one bizarre cigar blend.

The second third begins.

OK. Here goes: Sweetness, creaminess, earthiness, oak, cedar, vanilla, caramel, cola, and leather.
This sweetness is almost cloying. Most definitely a dessert cigar.

I could not find a single review of the Foundry Worm Hole 2014. Cowards. It made its debut at the 2014 IPCPR trade show and has been out for a month or two.

Red pepper rears its pretty head. How odd that one third through the cigar that spice should appear.

I think that Michael Giannini and Robert Johnson signed a pact with the devil at the same time and place.
That’s right. Giannini is 89 years old. He signed the pact in 1935 with Johnson at his side.

Did you know that the most influential blues player in the world only lived to be 27 and lived a terrible life of depravation? And the theory is that he was given a poisoned bottle of booze at age 27 and died.
What influence did you have on the world by 27? Amazing, innit?

The Foundry Worm Hole 2014 is beginning to return the planet earth. Flavors are normalizing. While still a sweet cigar, other flavors; such as creaminess, caramel, vanilla, spice, and wood become bolder.
The natural sweetness becomes less cloying.

I don’t think that the Foundry Worm Hole 2014 is one of Giannini’s best blends. After all, he had the pressure of coming up with dozens of exotic blends. They can’t all be winners.

I’m at the halfway point.

The caramel and creaminess really shine now. I smoked one yesterday to see if it was ready. And I remember that it was in the last half of the cigar that it really took off.

So while I’m waiting for the flavor profile to explode, I just thought of something. Did you see the concert on Vets Day? Concert for Valor?
Bruce Springsteen did the anti-war Credence song: “Fortunate Son.”
Everyone was on stage for that. Unfortunately, they should have removed one lyric.
And Springsteen sang it: “It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son.”
Well, the boos were loud and clear, son. What a stupid thing to do. They could have easily left that out. For chrissakes, they were singing to service people who I’m sure a lot were part of military families.
It shook Springsteen up. When the song finished, it was a combo of applause and boos. Springsteen immediately walked off stage, head hanging, his chin on his chest, not looking anywhere but down. Mr. Big fucked up. Let Fox News explain it to you.

Back to the Foundry Worm Hole 2014.

I’ve reviewed the Chillin’ Moose, Gold, Argon, Vanadium, and the Plutonium White.
Some were very good and others just OK.

The problem, as I see it, is that the packaging is unique and must be expensive. Especially since all the blends are limited editions and only a few thousand were made, not millions.

So while the cigar is only $4-$5, how much goes towards the crazy cigar boxes? It seems that we are left with $3.75 cigars. Giannini boldly states that he used tobaccos never used before. That can’t be cheap.

So did General Cigar think of the Foundry Compounds, Musings, and Elements as a loss leader item to make Giannini happy?

The last third begins without fanfare.

The Foundry Worm Hole 2014 ain’t bad. Just nothing special about it. It’s a pleasant cigar. Exasperating at times trying to decipher the flavors in the first half. But then, the second half flavors are ordinary.

There is a shit load of blends to choose from. It would take a lot of dough to buy nothing but 5 packs of the Foundry Compounds, Elements, and Musings. There is a minimum of a dozen blends within each heading. 36 five packs? Haha. That would be approximately $900.00.

Not in this life thank you. Maybe if I hit the lottery.

The cigar now bores me. It just flat lined. A shame. I had hoped for better.
The Foundry Worm Hole 2014 is not a cigar I’d buy again.

Note: I do have the Foundry Shoreham to review.