CAO Italia

**p0p** · 09-21-2010, 12:51 PM

i have yet to find a good tinned smoke, i am on the prowl though.

I really hope the next stick is worth it's weight... i was very disappointed with all the compliments CAO gets and you dont find many Italian cigars...

thanks for the comments.

**mrtr33** · 09-21-2010, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by p0p

... i was very disappointed with all the compliments CAO gets and you dont find many Italian cigars...

CAO gets compliments? News to me.

I don't know that I'd call this an "Italian" cigar - from their website:

The robust Italia is an escape with an extra dose of adventure. Made with tobacco from four countries, this full-bodied smoke is wrapped and bound in dark, smooth, Honduran leaves and filled with Peruvian and Nicaraguan tobaccos as well as Habano seed tobacco grown exclusively for CAO in the Benevento region of Italy. Bold, earthy and sweet. Per la dolce vita! (For the sweet life!)

-http://www.caocigars.com/

**p0p** · 09-21-2010, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by mrtr33

I don't know that I'd call this an "Italian" cigar - from their website:

The robust Italia is an escape with an extra dose of adventure. Made with tobacco from four countries, this full-bodied smoke is wrapped and bound in dark, smooth, Honduran leaves and filled with Peruvian and Nicaraguan tobaccos as well as Habano seed tobacco grown exclusively for CAO in the Benevento region of Italy. Bold, earthy and sweet. Per la dolce vita! (For the sweet life!)

-http://www.caocigars.com/

good point... guess its a mutt grown in Italy...

**ashauler** · 09-21-2010, 02:45 PM

Tried to like 'em, just couldn't do it.

**p0p** · 09-21-2010, 04:16 PM

i don't mean this as a slight against Italians, or a joke of any kind... did you guys taste oregano in yours? i got a mouthful of pepper with every puff, and i thought i detected a hint of oregano... good in a sauce, awful in a smoke...

**Mangyrat** · 09-21-2010, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by p0p

i don't mean this as a slight against Italians, or a joke of any kind... did you guys taste oregano in yours? i got a mouthful of pepper with every puff, and i thought i detected a hint of oregano... good in a sauce, awful in a smoke...

NO i didn't taste it i normally smoke the small ones in the winter so I'm not freezing my ass off trying to finish a larger cigar.
They are a little peppery, but not bad for quick smoke.

It may just be a cigar that your taste buds cant stand.
I would not give it much thought and move on to something else.