So a while back my brother was in Cuba for the cigar festival. He brought back a bunch and shared with me. One of the cigars he gave me was a Partagás Salomones which was supposed to be a real high end Partagas cigar. I tried to smoke it........yep that's right, "tried". It was rolled way too tight and even though I tried with my long metal skewer to open it up a bit I could barely get a drag out of it. Had it been smokable I think it would have been a very good cigar but as it stands, all I really got out of it was annoyance.
Sadly, this is all too common with the Cuban's and I'm quickly getting to the point where I'm going to just stop buying them. When 1 out of every 5 is unsmokable, it's just not worth spending the money on them. Especially when there are so many really really good non Cuban's out there and 149 out of every 150 of them is rolled perfectly. I've had the odd non Cuban that was a little tight, but still smokable so even the "not perfect" ones that slip by they QA department are still decent.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Ernest Henley***
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Originally Posted by WinstonSpencer
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