It's because Tanith has decided to take revenge upon me in my sleep.
About a month ago, while Tanith was away at a conference, I went to a cigar event at a local B&M. Being very new to cigars and not really having anything to smoke, myself, she told me to grab a few sticks from her "I don't care" humidor (which has since been repurposed into our pipe tobacco humidor). Turns out, she left a stick in there that she
did care about. Turns out, I grabbed that stick. It was the second cigar I smoked that night, and by far the best.
A '99 Cubao.
A month is a long time to wait before giving a proper review, and I'd say that my cigar pallate has greatly improved in that time. Here goes my aching, possibly faulty memory...
I remember it being very smooth and clean, a medium-bodied cigar. Drew like a straw. It started off with some yummy woodsy, almost cedar notes with an undertone of nice Spanish leather.
After the first third, it really changed. A creaminess came into the cigar, followed by what shifted between coffee, chocolate, and this savoriness akin to roasted meat with herbs.
Some spice came around in the end, where cream and Spanish leather mingled on the tongue for a longer and pleasant finish.
It was the second cigar I smoked that day, and I spend the rest of the event lamenting that none of the other cigars were as good.
Rookie mistake. I did a baaaaad thing.
:-):-)
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Possibly one of the earliest NC Pepins, yep. Handed to me by the rep in 1999 at the RTDA.
My *&^%# fault for putting it that humidor. Hope it was yummy. Sad I didn't get a puff. Oh well, I can always roll up your beard and smoke it while you are sleeping.
:-)
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Originally Posted by JE3146:
The highlighted portion intrigues me. What makes leather Spanish?
There's "new leather", which is what you smell when you go into Wilson's and there's a zillion leather jackets hanging around. There's other methods of tanning for leather that is not used for garments or car seats and does not need to be as supple, and they result in a slightly different smell that is a bit more earthy and woodsy. I don't know what those methods are specifically, just what they smell like. At one time a lot of Spanish leather products were made like this. I'm not sure if they still are.
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