First off the draw is WAY too tight. The cig...  more

First off the draw is WAY too tight. The cigar tastes wonderful while in the beginning when it stays lit. Unfortunately the draw is so tight that the cigar burned out twice before I got through the first half, with the taste suffering as a consequence. I'm trying to finish it now but it appears to be going out on me again. I have to puff it 4 or 5 times a minute to keep it lit and I'm sure that's killing the taste too. Maybe I got a bum stick but unfortunately I'm not going to waste another $10 to find out. Save your money and your aggrevation. Its hard to enjoy when you spend more time trying to touch it up and reignite it than actually smoking it. less

I purchased this cigar on the advice of the s...  more

I purchased this cigar on the advice of the smoke shop guy, who has steered me well a few times before. When I cut it, I noticed that the end was hard to cut (with a very expensive sharp cutter). Looking at the cut end the tobacco leaves were packed so tightly that the end looked like wood. I've never seen this before in any cigar. I slightly squeezed the cigar up and down and it seemed that the end 1 inch (near the foot) was very hard, obviously packed way too tight. I lit the cigar figuring it would draw like crap and sure enough it did. I made another cut about 1/8" in to no avail. Finally I used my pipe tool to poke into the cigar in several places to get it to draw ok. Even with this it was only ok, and there was really nothing exceptional about this cigar. Some may say that I may have purchased one bad one in the bunch, but for the price I paid there is no excuse - this is why these makers have Quality Control. Do yourself a favor and spend your hard earned money on something better! less