No.2, I have smoked a few of these for this blog, and they have all been reasonably good, at least as good as a giant comedy cigar can be. But this one would be different. I did not keep any notes, I smoke and blog, not letting much time pass in which I could forget what I remembered. So this post might be a bit thin.
The cigar clipped nicely enough, but there was no air to be found in the draw. I thought it was just plugged. I would find out later this was not really the case. So I put the smoke into a dry box and left it for a few days. When I went back to it, it was a bit better, and I wanted to smoke it and have a beer. I chose a Victory Golden Monkey...might be a bit too springy for this cigar, but it was looking like a dud to begin with, so I threw caution to the wind. The cigar lit slowly and burned agonizingly slowly as well. What I realized was that there was a hidden air leak in the wrapper that was stealing my suction. I found this out midway when the wrapper just peeled back in my hand. I was not happy. The cigar was a triple-clutcher. I had to pull three LONG draws to get any kind of smoke. What I got THEN was not bad, strong and full of chocolate and spices. I gave it a fair trial, smoking 2/3 of it's length until I just got mad and let it go. I do not think that the torcedore tricked me, hiding his error with a smooth wrapper, but I will say that if there had been draw machines in the factory back in the 20th century, this one would have been yanked, I hope. I enjoyed the flavor of my laborious draws, but the experience was not a good one. So I will eviscerate the cigar's noble reputation and say if you can't get it right, don't charge 20 bucks a pop for the smoke. 68 points.
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