Cigar Review: Don Tomas Sun Grown
Friday, May 9th, 2008I chose the Don Tomas Sun Grown Robusto to review not for its incredible complexity, but because I found it to be my perfect grill gar. I’ll explain that statement later. This medium brown Honduran puro was released by General Cigar in August 2007 and consists of tobacco aged for three years. It’s not the best Sun Grown on the market, but for the money, its not too far away.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Cigar Review: Hoyo De Monterrey Dark Sumatra Noche
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I was gifted one of these by my uncle and I can’t thank him enough. He turned me on to a nice cigar. Though the look of cigar says full strength, the smooth flavors of this cigar make it seem almost mild. This beautiful cigar is blended by Estelo Padrón. The Ecuadoran sun grown wrappers are aged in dried palm leaves. What this does for the flavor, I have no idea, but it obviously works.
Construction: This expertly crafted cigar is very firm with few veins rising from the wrapper. I felt no soft spots along its 6 1/2 inch frame. It has a nice, easy draw warning me to keep it slow and easy. This seems to be about an hour and a half smoke. I learned that to rush it makes for an unpleasant experience.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Cigar Review: La Gloria Cubana Wavell Natural
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008La Gloria Cubana is in General Cigar’s large brand of products, and this particular line is made in their factory in Miami. I actually picked this up at a rolling event at my local cigar store–they had two of the rollers from the factory in Miami and were teaching customers how to roll the wrapper. I learned from this experience that I shouldn’t quit my day job and move to the Dominican Republic–my rolling job was terrible.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Cigar Review: Punch Cafe Royal Maduro
Monday, April 28th, 2008After I finished smoking the Cafe Royal Maduro and looked at my notes I realized I wasn’t sure what I smoked. General Cigar’s website wasn’t a huge help, so it was a great excuse to run down to the The Party Source and find out.
Popularity: 9% [?]
General Cigar Website Review
Friday, April 25th, 2008This week I continue my look into the websites of some of the larger manufacturers by examining General Cigar’s Website. The actual website is their portal called Cigar World and features some heavily used forums.
Popularity: 7% [?]
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