Cigar: Punch Rare Corojo Magnum
Vitola: 5.1x54
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Honduran
Noticabbly absent: Corojo
Price: $8 at the B&M (CA), about $80 a box of 25 online
Setting: Sun room, about 85 degrees, 6pm and having a Peach Snapple.
Pre-light: Cigar as a nice oily reddish brown wrapper with medium veins and a noticable seam. Cut was easy with the palio and the draw was just slightly resistant and left a sweet taste on the tongue. Cigar seemed fairly firmly packed without any real soft spots.
First third: Lit up easily and the resting smoke from the toasting has a very pleasant aroma. Wish they made incense that smelled like this. Taste is initially fairly woody and slightly grassy. Smoke volume and body seem fairly medium and the strength on the mild side. Burn is a tad wavy but nothing that needs correcting yet. So far off to a decent start.
Second third: Burn has corrected itself without any butane correction. Flavor is picking up a tad and the grassy flavor has gone away. The aftertaste is plesant and on the thin side. The ash seems fairly firm but has a nice hole right in the foot.
Final third: Flavor has really picked up with some earthy as well as woody flavors. Body has picked up a bunch too. There is almost no spice to the cigar which is sometimes a nice thing. The ash has gotten a bit flakey, but I only ashed myself once, which is pretty good for me.
Final thoughts: A good medium smoke with good strong flavors. I often reccommend these to newer smokers looking for something full flavored that's not going to kick their ass in the nicotine department. I find it funny that the Rare Corojo has a corojo so rare it's not even in the smoke.
Smoke again: Sure, I have a few more in the humidor
Buy again: At the B&M but probably not a box
Reccommend: Sure, already have
Vitola: 5.1x54
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Honduran
Noticabbly absent: Corojo
Price: $8 at the B&M (CA), about $80 a box of 25 online
Setting: Sun room, about 85 degrees, 6pm and having a Peach Snapple.
Pre-light: Cigar as a nice oily reddish brown wrapper with medium veins and a noticable seam. Cut was easy with the palio and the draw was just slightly resistant and left a sweet taste on the tongue. Cigar seemed fairly firmly packed without any real soft spots.
First third: Lit up easily and the resting smoke from the toasting has a very pleasant aroma. Wish they made incense that smelled like this. Taste is initially fairly woody and slightly grassy. Smoke volume and body seem fairly medium and the strength on the mild side. Burn is a tad wavy but nothing that needs correcting yet. So far off to a decent start.
Second third: Burn has corrected itself without any butane correction. Flavor is picking up a tad and the grassy flavor has gone away. The aftertaste is plesant and on the thin side. The ash seems fairly firm but has a nice hole right in the foot.
Final third: Flavor has really picked up with some earthy as well as woody flavors. Body has picked up a bunch too. There is almost no spice to the cigar which is sometimes a nice thing. The ash has gotten a bit flakey, but I only ashed myself once, which is pretty good for me.
Final thoughts: A good medium smoke with good strong flavors. I often reccommend these to newer smokers looking for something full flavored that's not going to kick their ass in the nicotine department. I find it funny that the Rare Corojo has a corojo so rare it's not even in the smoke.
Smoke again: Sure, I have a few more in the humidor
Buy again: At the B&M but probably not a box
Reccommend: Sure, already have