While I am new to cigars all the ones I've tried have been good till now.
This Viejo had been resting since march and due to it's larger size ( I had the 6.5) I figured I'd burn it up to make room as my humi is pretty full. I couldn't make it past an inch. The constuction is the worst I've seen yet. Wrapper felt like it was falling off even before I cut the cap. The draw was like a drinking straw, not something I've come to like, I like a bit of resistence in the draw. I figured I'd push on, toasted the foot and lit.
First puff was a bit bitter, but I'd figure it would settle down. I had a RyL Cedro #2 start out a bit bitter yesterday, but it settled and was great. This Puros was not like my smoke yesterday. It did not settle, and instead a sweetness came over and tasted like it was trying to smother the bitterness. (if that makes any since) I purged it and let it rest for a minute, and tried once agian. The purging had gotten rid of the sweetness, but the bitterness persisted. I couldn't make it to the second 1/3 to see if it was going to get better or not. The only thing I can correlate this smoke to is when I was a dumb kid running around rolling random leaves and lighting those up.
I know this isn't much of a "real" review, but I was just so disgusted by it I had to share.
This Viejo had been resting since march and due to it's larger size ( I had the 6.5) I figured I'd burn it up to make room as my humi is pretty full. I couldn't make it past an inch. The constuction is the worst I've seen yet. Wrapper felt like it was falling off even before I cut the cap. The draw was like a drinking straw, not something I've come to like, I like a bit of resistence in the draw. I figured I'd push on, toasted the foot and lit.
First puff was a bit bitter, but I'd figure it would settle down. I had a RyL Cedro #2 start out a bit bitter yesterday, but it settled and was great. This Puros was not like my smoke yesterday. It did not settle, and instead a sweetness came over and tasted like it was trying to smother the bitterness. (if that makes any since) I purged it and let it rest for a minute, and tried once agian. The purging had gotten rid of the sweetness, but the bitterness persisted. I couldn't make it to the second 1/3 to see if it was going to get better or not. The only thing I can correlate this smoke to is when I was a dumb kid running around rolling random leaves and lighting those up.
I know this isn't much of a "real" review, but I was just so disgusted by it I had to share.