Badwhale Challenge contest!

[craig]

Maybe the contest should be called "Craig's dog rocket contest!" ;-)

As is becoming obvious, these are not all primo smokes. I picked them to offer a very wide variety of tastes - but tastes that are not typical of the cigars that Will has been reviewing (at least recently). Yesterday's was probably the most full-bodied. I'm having fun (and smoking the same cigar right now).

(As an aside, the reason that the cigars are all small is because of the weird postage rates here. If I keep the package DVD-thin, then the postage is reasonable. Otherwise it is triple the postage!)

BTW, for harshness, purging the cigar may help (blowing back through the cigar gently). For fun, light the purged air and see how long the flame can be kept going (works best on big-ring full-bodied cigars). This particular cigar can have harsh bits, though.

As always, the narrower the ring, the slower one has to smoke.

Here's the list for folks to start thinking about:
Bolivar
El Surco
Hajenuis
Jose L. Piedra
Macanudo
Partagas
Plasencia
Por Larranaga
Quintero
Rafael Gonzalez
Rocky Patel
Romeo Y Julietta

Also, where there are duplicate brands, these are the version not currently sold in the USA.


edited. quite a bit.

[badwhale]

I would not call either 2 dog rockets. I'm just callin' it as I taste it. I did try the purge thing, and like I said with #4, it was in & out with the slight (I repeat) slight harshness. Yes, they are certainly a different profile that what I normally review.

#1 had much better construction, and I didn't study the others yet.

The overall impression is always the telltale sign of my liking / disliking of a cigar.

Will