http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjoPZqcC4k

A few months ago I got an email from Brian Shapiro, president of international sales of Oliva, who asked me if I wanted to be a member of the advisory board of Studio Tobac, a project that I only heard off a few days earlier when I did an interview with José Oliva for my Dutch website sigarenliefhebber.nl. I was honored just to be asked and ofcourse I said yes. Fast forward to February first, the mailman rang my doorbell and handed me a small box. I recognized the return address as being the Oliva headquarters. Inside the box I found a letter that I was accepted in the advisory board and two fivers, one fiver of Cain F nubs and one fiver of Cain F lancero. Those lancero are special, they will not be commercially released, they will only be available in the Studio Tobac 2011 world tour sampler which will be a 'free with purchase' gift. More info on the Cain F lancero can be found here.

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The 7x38 lancero looks good with a nice, quite deep and dark, oily wrapper which looks tough. I see some veins and the wrapper has a silky feel. The cigar has a strong barnyard and wood smell. The construction feels good. Like any Nub and Cain, this cigar has a foot band. The predraw is good and I taste a spicy tobacco flavor.

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I taste a lot of pepper with some earth and coffee. The coffee disappears after a quarter of an inch, I still taste pepper with an earthy flavor. After an inch I taste pepper with herbs and some wood. The earthy flavor is gone. After two inch I still taste the pepper but the wood and herbal flavors are getting smooth and the structure of the flavors is mild creamy.

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After a third I get a little hint of chocolate and the pepper starts to fade away. Halfway I taste wood and herbs again, both the pepper and the chocolate have disappeared. After two thirds the pepper returns with a vengeance. It tastes like four seasons pepper, with herbs and wood.

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This cigar lasted me for an hour and twenty five minutes. I got a lot of thick white smoke. The draw and the burn are very good. The pepper and salt colored ash isn't very firm. This cigar is full flavored and full bodied.

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Would I buy this cigar again? I will have to buy a box at the Studio Tobac world tour, just to get a sampler

Appearance: 8 / 10
Construction: 8 / 10
Draw: 8 / 10
Burn: 8 / 10
Smoke & ash: 8 / 10
Aroma first part: 7 / 10
Aroma second part: 8 / 10
Aroma third part: 8 / 10
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I love Cain Cigars, I need to figure out if their WT is coming to Seattle so I can get some of these.
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Nice review Ferdie. :-)
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yet to try the cain, might pick one up this weekend. thanks for the review.

btw, where's the nubber from? That is sweet looking
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I smoked one of these the other day. They are 10x better than the regular Cain sizes. I wish I could get some.
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Great review!
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Excellent review. I guess I will have to find a Studio Tabac WT event nearby. Everything I have heard the Cain F lancero is phenomenal
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This is THE best Cain/Oliva cigar to date! Now start producing them!
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They are producing them, but just for the Studio Tobac 2011 world tour sampler. In great looking tubes

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btw the Massholes should really watch the youtube link on top of the review :-)
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Another great review, thanks for sharing.
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Too much pepper for me.
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Love the review, imagine I'd love the cigar as I'm a lancero and Cain F guy. Only problem I have is a review on a cigar that I'll probably never be able to try because it's not going to be available for sale.

Great review however and thanks for that. I am drooling...unfortunately for no reason! LOL
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it's in the Studio Tobac sampler, so go to a world tour event, get yourself a box of Cains and you will get one Wade
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Nice review! I never really got into lanceros. Maybe, time to reconsider.
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Ferdinand, if one comes around here, I certainly will!
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Nice review, I like Lanceros. That is a very funny picture of you, too.
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Good review Ferdie. Last weekend I smoked a 550 maduro, my first Cain ever. Had I written a review of it, my review would have been very close to yours. I'm guessing they've done a pretty good job of carrying the profile across the line?
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Thanks for the review Ferdie.
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