Anyone ever try a cusano 18? I had the option the other day to purchase a cusano 18 and its maduro counterpart. I thought to myself, what a wonder experiment. I get to smoke these and really divide the tastes. I first smoked the cusano Double conn. natural. From the start this cigar was bland and flat. No taste for me what so ever. It mimicked stale tobacco. What was surprising what the aroma. It had a great aroma. The ash was nice as well. It had a salt and pepper look and was as steady as the cigar itself. It held for at least half the cigar and when I decided to ash it, it had to literally press against the side of the ashtray to get that sucker to rub off. It was like it was made of steel. I smoked to an inch and half just to see what changes occurred. Not many! That thing stayed boring.
Then came the maduro. Way different. It had a few more flavors than the natural. Coffee was the prominent, with some hidden sweet from the maduro that was hard to find at times. Other than that, not much of a flavorful cigar. It had great construction and ash likes it's natural partner, but as for flavor, Coffee. I would even go so far as to put some earthiness in there but I tell you, both were pretty boring. For the price, its about 3.50$ and compared to a padron 2000 which is about 3.85$ cusano 18 doesn't even exist.
What does anyone else think about their experience with cusano?

I've never tried one, but have always wanted to pick up one of their corojo's.

I tried a nat cusano 18 a few months back. I put it out after ½ inch. The taste was very blah. It did seem like it was well made, I just didn’t care for the flavor. I still have a cusano corojo ’97 sitting in my humi. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with it.

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Originally posted by Smokin J:
I tried a nat cusano 18 a few months back. I put it out after ½ inch. The taste was very blah. It did seem like it was well made, I just didn’t care for the flavor. I still have a cusano corojo ’97 sitting in my humi. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with it.

hopefully! yeah, I wanted to put the thing out that quick too but decided to stay the course. It was more of a taster's experiment for me so I stayed on. The maduro 18 is a bit better but not by much.

Cusano 18 Double Connecticut, huh? $3.50 ??? I bought them in Boston for $6.95, Blah !@#$%^&*(*&^$

Offered them to my friends who are non-cigar smokers, but pro'ly due to their ignorances, they smoked them well, while last time when they tried my $20 Cohiba, they throw it away only after half inch burnt

Anyway, keep 5 more of them for my friends whenever we're hanging out.

I never had a Cusano I liked. Way to mild with way too little flavor.

Cusano 18.
When thinking of this particular cigar the term Dog Rocket comes to mind.

Cusano Corojos are among my go-to cigars, especially the toro and the torpedo. I don't find them mild ... to me they're on the full side of medium-bodied and have a nice coffee-leather taste.

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Offered them to my friends who are non-cigar smokers, but pro'ly due to their ignorances, they smoked them well, while last time when they tried my $20 Cohiba, they throw it away only after half inch burnt

Yeah, that'd be annoying but you have to know your friends and how developed their tastes are. Same with choosing which wine to bring to a dinner party. No one's going to be impressed with your bottle of Screaming Eagle when their taste hasn't evolved beyond Two-Buck Chuck or Yellow Tail.

I have to agree with everybody else. The natural is bland and boring. The paired maduro is a much better cigar; however, the Corojo 96's and 97's are vastly superior to both.