Wrapper: Honduran Jamastran
Binder: Honduran Connecticut Seed
Filler: Honduran Habano Jamastran, Nicaraguan Jalapa, Paraguay
Size: 5 x 54 Robusto Grande
Strength: Medium/Full
Price: $15.00
BACKGROUND:
Debuted at 2023 PCA Trade Show.
From Atlantic Cigar:
“Cavalier Geneve Inner Circle Domaine Rouge pays tribute to the late Pascal Decoppet, father of Sébastien Decoppet, the company’s founder. Utilizing a tri-country blend from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Paraguay, these lush tobaccos are encased in a Honduran binder and topped off with Habano wrapper. Expect a medium to full-bodied blend that is complex and balanced.”
THE WHOLE MEGILLAH:
Aromas are slight at best: Baking spices, generic spiciness, creaminess, graham cracker, cedar, and caramel.
Gotta be honest here…not a fan of Honduran tobacco. You don’t see it much in high premium cigars for a good reason.
The cigar has little heft. Unless heat puffs this baby up, it is going to be a fast mover. If so, it might turn out to be an omen from the cigar gods.
The cigar starts out at Complex Lite. Flavors of creaminess, caramel, cedar, black pepper, and white toast.
Right off the bat, I get a burn issue. A symptom of mediocre construction. Not what I expect from a $15 stick.
Strength is mild.
Once again, I put Amazon Music on the Buffalo Springfield station. I’m hoping my back pages will urge this cigar on to be a pleasant blend.
The cigar turns into a cigarette…burning quickly. I fucking knew it. Me and Cavalier Geneve just can’t find a non-hostile meeting place. I haven’t tried their Nic blends and I probably should be fair. A lot of their blends have that Caldwell trademark of not divulging the leaf stats. Either they don’t know, or it is a highly guarded nuclear secret.
¾” burned. 6 minutes. Nicht gut. At this rate, this $15 Robusto will peter out in 30 minutes. Ridiculous.
The Honduran choices leave me flat.
I swear I can see the ash growing by the second.
There is no joy in Mudville. I don’t revel in bringing you a lousy choice for your hard-earned dough. Plus, it starts my morning off kilter.
Caramel and creaminess are the only flavors in play. Not a lick of spiciness which this blend sorely needs. This is a dog turd extraordinaire.
You ever wonder what blenders are thinking when they push a cigar to market that stinks?
The burn should be ashamed of itself.
Maybe the cigar needs 6 months of humidor time. But I doubt it. My sick (sic) sense tells me that the blender was asleep at the wheel. I am not receiving any messages from the tobacco that make sense.
Strength goes from mild to medium/full like the trap door of the hangman’s gallows.
1-1/2” burned. 14 minutes. It’s a race to the finish line.
Meanwhile, the cigar tastes like crap. No complexity. Zero transitions. Zero richness or depth of field. Zero finish. Just a big fat zero.
I’m going to provide my sponsors contacts below because I am bound by the first child rule. And I’ve painted sheep’s blood on my door jambs.
The burn line sort of smooths out. But where is the beef?
I know lots of guys that love everything that Cavalier Geneve produces. It is just one brand that I don’t get. I’m sure that there must be some good blends in their catalog…I just haven’t tried them yet.
The burn slows down.
2” burned. 18 minutes. The burn is winning. Thankfully.
This is a shameful blend. The construction is just the shits. No fat Robusto should finish out in 30 minutes.
If the industry reviewers give this cigar a wonderful review…
The cigar just ain’t going to make a lifesaving turnaround. I will allow it to burn to 1-1/2” left because the cigar is so bereft of flavor that it doesn’t bother me. It bothers me that Cavalier foisted this piece of shit on their customers. Don’t they smoke their own products? Or could it be that they have an alien palate and within each cigar is a foreign chemical to make humans compliant to the future invading force?
If a cigar could be made without any sign of character, boy do I have a stick for you.
I will now need to apologize to my sponsors. They are stuck with this drek. And I’m not helping them out one bit.
Halfway point. 23 minutes. Of course, it is slowing down. I’d say great if this was a good cigar.
I have a pretty decent palate for an old man. I do not foresee this cigar becoming anything of quality with a lot of humidor rest.
I should have completely passed on this cigar. Sometimes we just make bad choices.
I am not going to finish this cigar. No point. A bad cigar does not improve magically in the last half.
3” burned. 27 minutes.
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RATING: 75
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