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Island (The other ones) Reviews>oliva V maduro
loki 07:29 PM 10-30-2008
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I want to start off by saying I am not a person who can detect lots of flavors and stuff in my cigars....well most of them time anyway. This time seems to be one of them. This cigar had tons of flavor but I didnt find it all that strong, I would put it about the same level of strength as the current run triple madduro camacho. I made the mistake of storing this a little too high rh wise, 67 vs 63-65 anyway onto the review.

Overall this was a great cigar construction was great, taste was wonderful strong tobacco taste with that classic maduro sweetness to it. I put a V-cut on the end of the torp and it seemed to be fine...for a few puffs by the end of the first third of the cigar I was thinking that was a bad idea. The further I got into the cigar the more I realized, yes the V-cut was a bad idea so out came the palio and off went more of the cap and in came a better draw and less stale tobacco taste, overall Id call that a win win. The ash held for about 2" or so before I ended up wearing it.

While I could sit here and hammer out every thought I had durring the cigar but since a picture is worth a 1000 words Ill just post this:



This cigar was a winner, is it worth $8.20 a stick or 82 a box...Im not sure. Its hard for me to plunk down that much money on any one cigar and the last one I did so with was the Kristoff and they are about the same price here in VA so I guess I have to say yes this cigar was worth it since I would grab this one over the Kristoff. I did have some burn problems but overall it was a fine cigar which I would happily smoke again.

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elderboy02 07:34 PM 10-30-2008
Nice review! :-)
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Mugen910 07:34 PM 10-30-2008
Thanks for the review Kev..
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Clampdown 07:55 PM 10-30-2008
Nice job Kevin, glad you enjoyed it.
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cort 07:57 PM 10-30-2008
Sweet review. Thanks for sharing
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AdamC 08:21 PM 10-30-2008
I got a few of these. Haven't touched them yet. Gonna have to try one.
thanks for the review.
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JohnnyKay5 08:50 PM 10-30-2008
cant wait until i get mine
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kfish 07:32 AM 10-31-2008
Good review:-) My box just showed up yesterday and I can't wait to crack it open and lite one up.

Kfish
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Volt 08:22 AM 10-31-2008
Nice review... What B&M were you at?
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Scottw 08:26 AM 10-31-2008
Nice review, can't wait to try mine.
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dunng 08:35 AM 10-31-2008
Originally Posted by Volt:
Nice review... What B&M were you at?
Nice review! Looks like Aficionado’s Downtown Mall (Charlottesville)... :-)
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roughrider 10:41 AM 10-31-2008
Thanks for the review.
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zmancbr 11:23 AM 10-31-2008
Thx for the review... I am gonna have to break down and smoke one of these soon! :-)
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mrreindeer 11:34 AM 10-31-2008
Thanks for the great review! I've got a couple coming my way from a nice BOTL who went and picked up a box for us the other day! Can't wait to try 'em.
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BirdDok 06:45 PM 10-31-2008
I just picked one of these up today... can't wait to light it up tomorrow.
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