Boss Hog
07-05-2009, 12:40 AM
Padilla Habano
What is it?
It's a Non cuban Churchill (7.0" x 50) made in Nicaragua with a blend of Cuban-seed tobacco
What does it taste like?
Right from the off you get a slightly sweet taste of the smoke followed by secondary taste of coccoa powder with a hint of spicyness, which feels more like a residue on the tongue. The finish tails of too quickly for my liking. The coccoa taste is always there but remains secondary.
During the second third it began to develop a very faint toasted bitterness to it which was very similar to when you 'overheat' chocolate during tempering.
That would probably not be picked up by the average smoker unless you had passion for quality choc as I do or your Willy Wonka.
I recently read a thread by Robusto (the title evades me) it may have been on the during the recent walk or his trip to teddington that while smoking a certain cigar he was told to take a deeper draw to enhance the flavour in some way. (Bryan, perhaps you could correct me if I'm wrong) I did try that with this an indeed it did develop it.
As I went in for the big draw I could taste the shift from the coccoa to more of a coffee flavour and back again once I tailed off.
That did give it another dimension to it, but given the size of this cigar you'd have to be Jenna Jameson to keep sucking it like that for the duration.
How strong is it?
This is on the medium scale.
The draw?
No problems at all, thick smoke and didnt require any touch up lights. THat was a plus for me as when ever I smoke something of that size I'm not rushing it, as I'm generally doing something else at the same time like writing this stuff or reading and coming back to it.
The ash fell away around the 1cm mark and caught me by surprise.
Final thoughts?
This is an ok cigar, There was nothing that really jumped out at me. it was well balanced and consistent in flavour throughout but there was nothing deep and complex about the flavours.
During the final third, I sat and sipped an Italian latte coffee with it which complimented it nicely I thought.
Given the slight bitterness of the coccoa taste in the cigar, if it were chocolate it would come in around the 75-80% coccoa content mark, which combined with the milkyness of the coffee eased it back to around 60% which is about where I like it.
Out of 10, I would give it a 5.5.
If you, like Jenna and her friends could suck a golf ball through a hosepipe you would probably get a bit more out of it than I did. But at this time of night after a full days work I dont feel inclined to. (God! I sound like the wife!)
http://www.ukcigarforums.com/picture.php?albumid=48&pictureid=432
What is it?
It's a Non cuban Churchill (7.0" x 50) made in Nicaragua with a blend of Cuban-seed tobacco
What does it taste like?
Right from the off you get a slightly sweet taste of the smoke followed by secondary taste of coccoa powder with a hint of spicyness, which feels more like a residue on the tongue. The finish tails of too quickly for my liking. The coccoa taste is always there but remains secondary.
During the second third it began to develop a very faint toasted bitterness to it which was very similar to when you 'overheat' chocolate during tempering.
That would probably not be picked up by the average smoker unless you had passion for quality choc as I do or your Willy Wonka.
I recently read a thread by Robusto (the title evades me) it may have been on the during the recent walk or his trip to teddington that while smoking a certain cigar he was told to take a deeper draw to enhance the flavour in some way. (Bryan, perhaps you could correct me if I'm wrong) I did try that with this an indeed it did develop it.
As I went in for the big draw I could taste the shift from the coccoa to more of a coffee flavour and back again once I tailed off.
That did give it another dimension to it, but given the size of this cigar you'd have to be Jenna Jameson to keep sucking it like that for the duration.
How strong is it?
This is on the medium scale.
The draw?
No problems at all, thick smoke and didnt require any touch up lights. THat was a plus for me as when ever I smoke something of that size I'm not rushing it, as I'm generally doing something else at the same time like writing this stuff or reading and coming back to it.
The ash fell away around the 1cm mark and caught me by surprise.
Final thoughts?
This is an ok cigar, There was nothing that really jumped out at me. it was well balanced and consistent in flavour throughout but there was nothing deep and complex about the flavours.
During the final third, I sat and sipped an Italian latte coffee with it which complimented it nicely I thought.
Given the slight bitterness of the coccoa taste in the cigar, if it were chocolate it would come in around the 75-80% coccoa content mark, which combined with the milkyness of the coffee eased it back to around 60% which is about where I like it.
Out of 10, I would give it a 5.5.
If you, like Jenna and her friends could suck a golf ball through a hosepipe you would probably get a bit more out of it than I did. But at this time of night after a full days work I dont feel inclined to. (God! I sound like the wife!)
http://www.ukcigarforums.com/picture.php?albumid=48&pictureid=432