I looked at my social calendar and realized that I would be hard pressed to smoke this puro before early next week, so its coming out of the humidor with only 8 hours rest...

The cigar is Churchill sized -- 7.25" x 48, I would say it has a Colorado wrapper -- medium to dark redddish brown, and the pre-light aroma was almost all cedar (was it cedar wrapped at one point?). The wrapper was smooth with a few pronounced veins. This poor guy got banged up a bit in transit, but it is still a nice looking smoke.

After the cut, the draw was perfect -- no real taste hints here -- pretty confident this will smoke nicely. After smoking this for 10 or 15 minutes, the spice and pepper start come on strong -- definitely a medium to full bodied smoke with a lot of spicy flavor. The spice/pepper flavor was pervasive for the remainder of the smoke.

I've never been one to focus that closely on my smokes -- I never delve deeper than whether I liked or didn't like it; so this is new exercise for me. I'm more of "sit back and relax" cigar smoker -- I don't want to give it too much thought. So in a way, this has been like trying to guess a woman's bra size -- in the end, I know what I like, and the only way to figure that out is a hands on approach... Turns out I liked this cigar -- a lot.

I ruled out Cuban based on the size -- most Cuban Churchills come in at 7" religiously. I'm torn between Nicaraguan and Dominican, but I'm going Dominican (flavor, wrapper).