Let me tell you something, if you haven’t burned one of these SFO’s yet, you need to get off your keister and do so. What a wonderful experience it was smoking this stick from Taboo. Its appearance is slightly on the ruff looking side, with an oily tackiness, and firm construction (my kinda stick!). The SFO employs a Costa Rican Maduro Wrapper which lends to a relaxing sweet tobacco prelight aroma through the nose (there’s another scent in there I’d like to call licorice, but don’t hold me to it). Draw is above average, just right, and maintains itself from start to finish. Of interest, when checking the draw, immediately a peppery sweetness attached itself to my lips. I smacked my lips again to re-check the draw and there it was again. Like sugar water was used to fix the cap to the head. Nothing negative, just simply enjoyable:
I pulled out my Torch PB-207 and fired-up this thoroughbred, because when the gates opened, this stick jumped out and took the inside track with a solid medium to full body flavor and strength from start until finish. A majority of the time it keep trying to push the envelope to full body. Note: this stick you want to work slowly and not fast, and make sure you have a good meal prior to lighting-up:
About the first quarter inch, flavors of pepper and sweet tobacco kept hitting my palate. The pepper left and only the sweet tobacco flavor remained until the end of this smoke. During the remainder of this smoke, the flavor was heavy and mainly sweet tobacco with mild scent of hay and lite pepper in the background:
The burn was fairly even, requiring some touch-ups here and there, but I think that’s due to some humidity the sticks may be holding onto. Since my humi is running around 65% to 66% RH, I’ll let the remainder of these sticks rest for a month and revisit them at that time. You like smoke? This one has copious amounts of aromatic smoke:
All in all, I spent about two hours getting to know my SFO Robusto (and sometimes it tried to buck me off. Probably the ligero fillers. Note #2: Do not work this cigar fast!). If you like a LFD DL-600, ITC 10th Anniversary Robusto, or LGC Series R #6, then I know you will love the Taboo SFO Robusto in 5x54. This stick is going to be in my regular rotation from now on. On a side note, it would be interesting to see this one in 52 RG sometime.
To Rob, I don’t know who is doing the blending and rolling on this stick, but please give them a big thumbs-up on this one…:tu:tu:tu
I pulled out my Torch PB-207 and fired-up this thoroughbred, because when the gates opened, this stick jumped out and took the inside track with a solid medium to full body flavor and strength from start until finish. A majority of the time it keep trying to push the envelope to full body. Note: this stick you want to work slowly and not fast, and make sure you have a good meal prior to lighting-up:
About the first quarter inch, flavors of pepper and sweet tobacco kept hitting my palate. The pepper left and only the sweet tobacco flavor remained until the end of this smoke. During the remainder of this smoke, the flavor was heavy and mainly sweet tobacco with mild scent of hay and lite pepper in the background:
The burn was fairly even, requiring some touch-ups here and there, but I think that’s due to some humidity the sticks may be holding onto. Since my humi is running around 65% to 66% RH, I’ll let the remainder of these sticks rest for a month and revisit them at that time. You like smoke? This one has copious amounts of aromatic smoke:
All in all, I spent about two hours getting to know my SFO Robusto (and sometimes it tried to buck me off. Probably the ligero fillers. Note #2: Do not work this cigar fast!). If you like a LFD DL-600, ITC 10th Anniversary Robusto, or LGC Series R #6, then I know you will love the Taboo SFO Robusto in 5x54. This stick is going to be in my regular rotation from now on. On a side note, it would be interesting to see this one in 52 RG sometime.
To Rob, I don’t know who is doing the blending and rolling on this stick, but please give them a big thumbs-up on this one…:tu:tu:tu
did I enjoy that cigar. I have been getting more into the 'full bodied' cigars recently and added the Original SF to my list of favorites, it's close to one of my top favorites, Camacho Triple, but at half the price. :ss