My first cigar of the evening last night was a CAO Black VR Mural, just something light to get the evening going. I've been sitting on a box of these for a year or two now and they are smoking pretty well, but when I cut this particular stick I found something strange: one maduro (looking) leaf at the center of the filler. The leaf burned much slower than the rest of the filler/binder/wrapper and caused a pretty ridiculous cone, but I sill finished 'her off :-)

Just thought I would share. Anyone had this happen before with a stick? Its my first time, and I was caught completely off guard.

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-Mark

(PS - for any hebrew speaking brethren out there, the leaf had an uncanny resemblance to a stylized waw. :-))
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Huh...neat :-)
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That would almost certainly be the ligero leaf. Just looks a bit too tightly rolled is all. Other than the cone, did it smoke alright?
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Does the Black VR have a ligero leaf? I have smoked a number of these and never seen anything like this :-)

I'll smoke another one tonight and see if I can "reproduce the results".
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i think all cigars have a ligero leaf just stronger cigars have more than milder cigars
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Weird. I've smoked several of the VRs and never noticed anything like that. Those and the Brazilia are my favorites from CAO.
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