Cigar: Taboo Special Forces Original Lancero
Size: 7.5 X 40
Appearance/Construction: The semi-shiny Costa Rican Maduro Wrapper is a bit rough in appearance with a few small and medium sized veins in the length. Mmmm, Ligero filler. This stick is quite a bit skinnier than I'm use to smoking.
Where: On the patio, 84° but with 63% humidity it feels like 88° or more there are ocaisional winds from the SSE at 12 mph with gusts up to 22 mph.
Drink: Ozarka bottled water
Prelight Aroma Draw and Taste: Scent from the length is every so slightly barnyardy, from the foot it's what I know as that distinctive Special Forces aroma, rich tobacco and spice. It has another natural aroma to is that I can't put my finger on. The draw after clipping the tail with the Palio was perfect.
Light: Tiger
First Impressions: You can feel it on your lips and at the back of your throat with a taste that is bold and promising.
First third: This flavor and kick is intense enough to give a sensation at the roof of my mouth from just behind my front teeth all the way back to my uvula. There is a flavor present that I didn't notice in the larger SFOs and didn't pick up on in the SFO BC that I smoked at Rob's shop yesterday. I think it stems from the natural aroma I could not ID in the prelight taste. The main tastes I got in the first third are those of bold rich tobacco and spice, with an underlying note of sweetness. First ash dropped at just under an inch and a quarter when the oscilating fan caught it. Yes, there are winds, but most lighter ones are significantly weakened by the garage and privacy fence.
Second third: The intensity of flavor has increased noticeably. There is good spicy note with some pepper, a sweet earthyness, with leathery tastes and a woody note now and then. There is also a light tangyness in the finish. I'm still not sure what the other taste is, but I like it. About half way through the second third, the flavor seems to balance and mellow out some, but it still has a bite that I can sense just inside my lips and on my tongue. The woody taste has shifted to a taste more specifically like that of cedar.
Final third: For me, this is where this cigar found it's strong spot. All the flavors seem to have merged into one grand and powerful taste.
Nubbed it!
Ash/Burn: Color ranged from white to gray to charcoal, held to a little over an inch and fairly flaky.
Final Comments: A very good strong smoke. I'd love to have one of these with six months to a year on it. I bet it would be fantastic. I'd rate this smoke a solid 9 of 10.
Price: $4.99
Burn Time: Lit 12:40 PM laid to rest 1:47 PM 6/10/2008.
:tu
Size: 7.5 X 40
Appearance/Construction: The semi-shiny Costa Rican Maduro Wrapper is a bit rough in appearance with a few small and medium sized veins in the length. Mmmm, Ligero filler. This stick is quite a bit skinnier than I'm use to smoking.
Where: On the patio, 84° but with 63% humidity it feels like 88° or more there are ocaisional winds from the SSE at 12 mph with gusts up to 22 mph.
Drink: Ozarka bottled water
Prelight Aroma Draw and Taste: Scent from the length is every so slightly barnyardy, from the foot it's what I know as that distinctive Special Forces aroma, rich tobacco and spice. It has another natural aroma to is that I can't put my finger on. The draw after clipping the tail with the Palio was perfect.
Light: Tiger
First Impressions: You can feel it on your lips and at the back of your throat with a taste that is bold and promising.
First third: This flavor and kick is intense enough to give a sensation at the roof of my mouth from just behind my front teeth all the way back to my uvula. There is a flavor present that I didn't notice in the larger SFOs and didn't pick up on in the SFO BC that I smoked at Rob's shop yesterday. I think it stems from the natural aroma I could not ID in the prelight taste. The main tastes I got in the first third are those of bold rich tobacco and spice, with an underlying note of sweetness. First ash dropped at just under an inch and a quarter when the oscilating fan caught it. Yes, there are winds, but most lighter ones are significantly weakened by the garage and privacy fence.
Second third: The intensity of flavor has increased noticeably. There is good spicy note with some pepper, a sweet earthyness, with leathery tastes and a woody note now and then. There is also a light tangyness in the finish. I'm still not sure what the other taste is, but I like it. About half way through the second third, the flavor seems to balance and mellow out some, but it still has a bite that I can sense just inside my lips and on my tongue. The woody taste has shifted to a taste more specifically like that of cedar.
Final third: For me, this is where this cigar found it's strong spot. All the flavors seem to have merged into one grand and powerful taste.
Nubbed it!
Ash/Burn: Color ranged from white to gray to charcoal, held to a little over an inch and fairly flaky.
Final Comments: A very good strong smoke. I'd love to have one of these with six months to a year on it. I bet it would be fantastic. I'd rate this smoke a solid 9 of 10.
Price: $4.99
Burn Time: Lit 12:40 PM laid to rest 1:47 PM 6/10/2008.
:tu