Java Latte by Drew Estate

This is a very aesthetically appealing and overall fun looking cigar. It is also very square beyond box-pressed there is little curvature - it felt a bit odd in my hand due to this and how light the cigar was by weight.

As expected this was a very open airy and light smoke.

It produced a good amount of smoke. The flavors were a bit less Latte than expected. It just didn't deliver for me and at the most hinted at coffee.

The aroma of the actual cigar and the smoke at times was howerever a Vanilla caramel latte.

Coffee taste was mostly just in the beginning then it faded to a plain light smokey taste with some wood or leather.

The wrapper ash was light while the insde was a bit darker.

Scratchy on my mouth/throat and cardboard box tasting and texture. Dissapointing final third.

Fianl thoughts are that this is a fun little treat but nothing special to seek out or stockpile. It seems a little under packed and lacking in a latte flavor consistently.

Enjoyable and very cool looking smoke. Cardboard flavor at the and was a let down.

Good Smokin,

Dave

La Gloria Cubana

My first thought lighting this puppy up was finally a great full cigar. The construction was nice it had a beautiful dark chocolate hue and smelled great pre-light. Some dark woods and chocolate or cocoa with tea.

Very heavy solid cigar that was fairly firm and a big ring guage which i like.

The smoke is spicy and deep to start. Red pepper spice on the sinus that lingers. A very chewy smoke thick and rich.

My burn line is a bit messy but i had a little trouble with a match. A lot of area to get lit properly. It is correcting itself howerver and i don't think there are any lop sided flavor issues.

Meaty comes to mind. Pepper blast in the sinus even more than when i lit it at a few minutes in. I can't see the ash very well in the moonlight but it seems rather white.

This is what i call a good smoke after heavy Italian or a Steakhouse dinner. Still it isn't crazy powerful by any means.

The smell is robust and complex. The flavors are almost licorice and very dark. No butter which is disappointing. A woodsy lush mahogany. Aged bitter and minute sour like a rocky patel 1990 on steroids.

Center of ash seems to have darker spots suggesting ligero but i am not sure.

Spice abruptly moves into creamy almost butter.

The ash is strong and not flakey.

The smell at the head of the cigar is sweet honey and salty.

Not much to say with three inches left - flavor is the same if not a little more toned down.

Sort of fizzled out in flavor department. Burnt toast and tea. My throat is scrathcy and the burn for the final two inches is miserably lopsided.

Great overall despite troubles near the end.

Good Smokes,

Dave

    

Yes i cut this cigar in half. I don't ever recomend this but this was a cheap little guy and very long for how small of a ring guage it had. I basically wanted to make two shorter smokes that i could have in thirty minutes on seperate occasions.

These put out tons of smoke. The smoke was a bit dry and woody mostly cedar.
It was also a bit harsh and acidic. The burn on my tounge seemed to be a major part of the finish and it wasn't a premium burny taste just more harsh and chemical-like. It was very similar to tounge bite from pipe tobacco.

It remained sweet smelling throughout but never exactly tasted sweet.

Tang comes to mind and thats not exactly the flavor but it is exactly what i don't want. Admittingly my expectation for this (these) cigars was not much and they were simply a cheap grab to try.

The smoke is heavy and offensive.

There is some bitter tea and leather but thats nearly all it had.

Good Smokes,
Dave