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YES!
Here's my review from Club Stogie:
Perdomo Lot 23
This cigar lit my hair on fire! Wow, was it ever exciting! Whew!
Wow, was this a complex and interesting cigar!
I've often quizzically wondered what "fruity" meant in cigar reviews. Now I know. The first 10 or so draws tasted like dried fruit with a peppery undertone. I wonder if this might be what it's like to smoke a middle-eastern "hookah" pipe? (They smoke dried fruit in them.)
This taste persisted throughout the cigar. It was pretty consistent from start to finish.
It was very full-flavored and very full-bodied. I had to smoke it really slow like my first Ashton VSG or Opus X. This cigar never mellows or lets up. It hammers you all the way through, but with good, interesting flavors so you don't mind the hammering.
After the first ten minutes I developed a bit of queezyness until I figured out what kind of cigar I was smoking. I quickly learned to take two close-together draws and then a break for about a minute like I do with stronger cigars like those listed above. That's what I do with the strong ones:
Puff, puff, adore, wait. That's the system.
Fruity, Asian pepper and interesting were the major flavors.
Traditional (see Davidoff or Montecristo) tobacco flavors were always there but as a background.
There was some pepper, but not black pepper. This is more like crushed red pepper or, better, like those kung-pau peppers you get in spicy Chinese food.
I'm a tid bit inexperienced to describe this much flavor, but this is an ambitious and complex cigar. I'm sure different moods and different states of food/water in your body would bring out different flavors because I'm certain there is a lot here I wasn't quite getting. Besides, I was driving. This is a cigar so complex that it's really worth patio smoking. I sincerely believe that the more attention you can dedicate to this cigar, the more you will receive from it. I was in traffic, so I was able to pay attention quite a bit, but I should have been on a patio concentrating on this thing.
This is going to be a favorite of people who like analyzing cigar flavors. It has THAT much depth.
I must say that the thing tasted a little young and a little harsh. They rushed it to market by a year; no doubt about it. If someone were to be enterprising enough to buy a box or two and age them for a year or two, I'm anticipating that this will be an extraordinarily good cigar. I believe this because it has so many complex flavors, with the strength to go along with it. Settling can ONLY do this cigar a lot of good.
I bought a 5-pack. I smoked one. My buddy will get one. The other 3 will be smoked in Spring of 2008. If I had the room, this would DEFINATELY buy a box and let set for a year or two. If I see these boxes for sale, later, when I DO have room, I'm going to grab one.
I'd give this one a rating of 8.5 out of 10. It was released too soon. We're going to have to do the aging that should have been done at the factory.
Even though it could use aging, you should smoke one as soon as you can get one, because it's THAT interesting a smoke!
I now have two 5-packs that are waiting until Spring for me to get into them (plenty of aged smoking sticks in the mean time) and a brand new box that I've put away and I'm planning on aging for a year before I even touch.
.
YES!
Here's my review from Club Stogie:
Perdomo Lot 23
This cigar lit my hair on fire! Wow, was it ever exciting! Whew!
Wow, was this a complex and interesting cigar!
I've often quizzically wondered what "fruity" meant in cigar reviews. Now I know. The first 10 or so draws tasted like dried fruit with a peppery undertone. I wonder if this might be what it's like to smoke a middle-eastern "hookah" pipe? (They smoke dried fruit in them.)
This taste persisted throughout the cigar. It was pretty consistent from start to finish.
It was very full-flavored and very full-bodied. I had to smoke it really slow like my first Ashton VSG or Opus X. This cigar never mellows or lets up. It hammers you all the way through, but with good, interesting flavors so you don't mind the hammering.
After the first ten minutes I developed a bit of queezyness until I figured out what kind of cigar I was smoking. I quickly learned to take two close-together draws and then a break for about a minute like I do with stronger cigars like those listed above. That's what I do with the strong ones:
Puff, puff, adore, wait. That's the system.
Fruity, Asian pepper and interesting were the major flavors.
Traditional (see Davidoff or Montecristo) tobacco flavors were always there but as a background.
There was some pepper, but not black pepper. This is more like crushed red pepper or, better, like those kung-pau peppers you get in spicy Chinese food.
I'm a tid bit inexperienced to describe this much flavor, but this is an ambitious and complex cigar. I'm sure different moods and different states of food/water in your body would bring out different flavors because I'm certain there is a lot here I wasn't quite getting. Besides, I was driving. This is a cigar so complex that it's really worth patio smoking. I sincerely believe that the more attention you can dedicate to this cigar, the more you will receive from it. I was in traffic, so I was able to pay attention quite a bit, but I should have been on a patio concentrating on this thing.
This is going to be a favorite of people who like analyzing cigar flavors. It has THAT much depth.
I must say that the thing tasted a little young and a little harsh. They rushed it to market by a year; no doubt about it. If someone were to be enterprising enough to buy a box or two and age them for a year or two, I'm anticipating that this will be an extraordinarily good cigar. I believe this because it has so many complex flavors, with the strength to go along with it. Settling can ONLY do this cigar a lot of good.
I bought a 5-pack. I smoked one. My buddy will get one. The other 3 will be smoked in Spring of 2008. If I had the room, this would DEFINATELY buy a box and let set for a year or two. If I see these boxes for sale, later, when I DO have room, I'm going to grab one.
I'd give this one a rating of 8.5 out of 10. It was released too soon. We're going to have to do the aging that should have been done at the factory.
Even though it could use aging, you should smoke one as soon as you can get one, because it's THAT interesting a smoke!
I now have two 5-packs that are waiting until Spring for me to get into them (plenty of aged smoking sticks in the mean time) and a brand new box that I've put away and I'm planning on aging for a year before I even touch.
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I also enjoy motorcycles and I understood I couldn't ride (much) in the winter.
