I post a lot of reviews so if you look in this section at all you probably know that I can completely destroy a cigar review based on appearance. I have skipped over the significant study of major lines (notably Camacho and Tatujue) because of my plain brown wrapper syndrome. Its amazing to me that I’ve even bought unbanded cigars so I don’t know how I stumbled onto the Omar Ortiz Originals Toro.
Its unbanded and it comes in a rough hewn box, and this plainness is offset by the fact that my B&M has several boxes on hand and even the imprints on the boxes don’t line up. On top of that the cigar quite frankly looks a little rough hewn, all lumpy bumpy as it is. The cap of several of the ones I examined was uneven. But man this thing smells good, nice nut aroma with the slightest whiff of freshly sliced figs. I feel pretentious even using the reference to the scent but its true. The prelight draw after dismissing the cap is more of the same. No soft spots and it is solid to the squeeze.
The stick lights pretty easy, and the smoke is almost aromatic even from the toasting before you even pull. Drawing this stick on the pull is reminiscent to taking a packet of sugar and stirring it into two cups of water. Its sweet smoke but not overly enough to attach a sweet flavor to it, only a sweet quality. There is a flavor of lightly toasted nuts to go along with the sweet reference almost like a toasty piece of some kind of nut based bread. There is also the slightest touch of coffee in each taste as well. As you progress the length of the stick the coffee becomes noticeable but barely, and the sweetness hides itself between the nuts and the coffee. The construction as poor as it might look turns out to be excellent, even at the half inch mark there is almost no heat at the fingers and only the heat of it in the draw. It also holds almost two inches of ash and doesn't get super soft at the nubbing.
I’d say it was a medium bodied stick but lately everything seems medium or weak except for the exceptionally high powered babies.
Appearance – 5
Construction – 10
Flavor – 10
Value – 10
Overall Experience -10
Overall Grade – 9
Final Verdict –A must smoke, must stock. Truly the most outstanding stick I’ve smoked in a while and cheap to boot. Notice without the drawback of poor presentation this stick could have easily been a perfect 10!
Its unbanded and it comes in a rough hewn box, and this plainness is offset by the fact that my B&M has several boxes on hand and even the imprints on the boxes don’t line up. On top of that the cigar quite frankly looks a little rough hewn, all lumpy bumpy as it is. The cap of several of the ones I examined was uneven. But man this thing smells good, nice nut aroma with the slightest whiff of freshly sliced figs. I feel pretentious even using the reference to the scent but its true. The prelight draw after dismissing the cap is more of the same. No soft spots and it is solid to the squeeze.
The stick lights pretty easy, and the smoke is almost aromatic even from the toasting before you even pull. Drawing this stick on the pull is reminiscent to taking a packet of sugar and stirring it into two cups of water. Its sweet smoke but not overly enough to attach a sweet flavor to it, only a sweet quality. There is a flavor of lightly toasted nuts to go along with the sweet reference almost like a toasty piece of some kind of nut based bread. There is also the slightest touch of coffee in each taste as well. As you progress the length of the stick the coffee becomes noticeable but barely, and the sweetness hides itself between the nuts and the coffee. The construction as poor as it might look turns out to be excellent, even at the half inch mark there is almost no heat at the fingers and only the heat of it in the draw. It also holds almost two inches of ash and doesn't get super soft at the nubbing.
I’d say it was a medium bodied stick but lately everything seems medium or weak except for the exceptionally high powered babies.
Appearance – 5
Construction – 10
Flavor – 10
Value – 10
Overall Experience -10
Overall Grade – 9
Final Verdict –A must smoke, must stock. Truly the most outstanding stick I’ve smoked in a while and cheap to boot. Notice without the drawback of poor presentation this stick could have easily been a perfect 10!
