Wrapper: Ecuadorian Corojo ‘98
Binder: Ecuadorian Habano
Filler: Nicaraguan ~ Jalapa and Estelí
Size: 7 x 50 Churchill ‘Pasha’
Strength: Medium/Full
Price: $20.50
My cigars received 5 months of naked humidor time.
Produced at Miami’s El Titan De Bronze Factory.
THE WHOLE MEGILLAH:
3 Minute Read Monday.
This babe-o-rama is plugged like a butt hole overhearing you scheduled a colonoscopy. Yes, your butt hole has small ears just half an inch above the taint…if bleached, they are invisible to the eye. Thankfully, my PerfecDraw has no visible orifices and slobbers at the chance to put its tiny prick in a tubular bell. One swoosh and the airhole is as wide open as Dr. Rod’s botched laryngeal liposuction…imitating Señor Wences is a dashed dream.
The shaggy foot simulates a brush fire once lit. Dormant, it is barely noticeable.
Nice smoke output. Cue video.
Strength is an easy-going medium.
Creamy root beer start. The foam piles on top of milk chocolate, cinnamon, orange citrus, black pepper, floral honey, and burnt caramel.
This is a blend that needs every bit of its 5 months of naked hibernation. I wasted two perfectly good cigars smoking them 2 months and 3 months in.
No info available if this cigar has specially aged tobacco. As manufacturers love to tote (not tout) this data, I’m guessing the leaves were chosen carefully but did not receive the ‘When I count to three, you’ll sleep and chirp like a chicken.’
La Palina is not a real forward-looking outfit. Tried and true works best. As well as flooding the market with fancy cigar band clad bundle cigars.
There is an expiration date on this blend. Not time. Quality. There is a subtle richness, but complexity seems distant. Wm Paley is in it strictly for the dough. The family name is an afterthought. I’ll keep an eye on my door for CBS assassins.
This is an excellent $10 cigar.
A nice coffee with cream flavor. Should probably stop sipping. A chance it might be an influence.
2” in. Nice, but you’re no cigar kennedy.
The second half dearly needs a sweet spot. Forward progression is a joke. $20. Time out.
Strength is medium/full at the halfway point. The Nic leaves were feebly chosen. This is a mish mosh of poorly planned strategy.
Not really a sweet spot. More of what the first half should have tasted like. The creaminess is undeniable and is its most avid fan. But there is a peppery aftertaste that ruins everything. The Ecuadorian Corojo and Habano are overwhelming. It could have been worse…Nic Corojo and Habano.
Momentum. There is no stinkin’ momentum.
Paley III was a privileged asshole that lounged on the good agency of his father and grandfather. This last-ditch effort to revive their cigar products wreaks of desperation. The man lives on the suckerhood of uneducated smokers. Maybe he should bring back The Carol Burnett Show.
I can’t smoke this cigar any longer.
Nothing drains the life of a reviewer faster than a bum cigar.
I made a promise to only review killer cigar blends. My apologies.
Buy the Goldie Prominente. That’s a great cigar.
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RATING: 75
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