Villiger 1888 ~ Short Robusto

Smoke: Villiger 1888 ~ Short Robusto
Drink: Stone Sublimely Self Righteous Ale
Tunes: Mixed / rapid fire
Date Smoked: 2/9/12

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Multi country
Draw: Light to medium
Burn: Good
Misc: n/a

Pre-light: Colorado-claro shade wrapper. Decent looking construction with light veins. Has a sweet cigarette pack smell. Kinda stingy oily taste on cut prelight flavor.

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Light: Easy. Light to medium draw.

1st 3rd: Oily. Bitter and a bit acrid. There’s a slight hint of sweet tobacco ring. Acrid dies down, but still too much bitter.

http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/r...20robo/002.jpg

Ash: Flakey layered ash. White and gray. Holds on for about 1 ½”

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2nd 3rd: Improving, marginally. Moving into a more tea leaf, faintly acrid flavor. Oily, but less bitter. Teetering on yard gar status. Basically a little too in the “harsh” category.

http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/r...20robo/004.jpg

3rd 3rd: Kinda the same as the 2nd. Acrid is the dominant flavor now. Don’t know where they get this filler, but they shouldn’t. I think the wrapper keeps it tolerable.

http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/r...20robo/005.jpg

Overall impression: This is the Odeon “sexpanther” of cigars.

Got this in a trade…I think you will know who.

Will