Ok, so my morning started with shoveling 2 yards of dirt for my wife’s garden maintenance business. As a result I am covered in fresh black earth, and the smell and taste of Mother earth is my nose and mouth.
What a great excuse to spark up a P80, and the weather is perfect, 12°C and sunny. This is a beautiful cigar from tip to tip, with a beautifully designed double cigar ring. Kind of like a pyramide and salomone mixed together. These maduro cigars are very dark and flawless in construction, with very small veins and very oily wrapper. The cigars have been sitting in my humidor for 6 months and Sheep questioned my sanity for letting them sit for so long without trying one. Thanks for the push Sheep.
The pre light smell is of earth and tobacco. Once you get past the first 10 minutes of the narrow head the cigar really opens up with tons of leather, cedar wood and just the right mix of wood. Nice draw and slight menthol flavor. This is a rock solid flavor bomb, with a consistency from start to finish.
Wow, one of the best NC’s I have ever head, way better than a Padron #9, and slightly better than a P #2. Nice earth taste with just the right amount of leather and cedar wood. This is a powerful cigar, not for the faint of heart, as it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to smoke, and I still had 1.5 inches left. I had to sadly put this cigar out as I had a conference call with client prospect in 15 minutes, as I only planned on smoking for 1 hour. Great, now I am high and drunk. BTW: I had a great prospect call. Woohoo more software business to quote on.
I pared this NC bomb with Aventinus Bock beer and this was perfect, as the port flavor of the beer was a great match for this maduro bomb. The last part of the cigar was pared with a 21 year old Appleton rum and this was not a good match. A fine Port would have been perfect.
No harsh spice, even in the last 2.5 inches. This is an epiphany cigar. My wife was fighting me for pulls for the first hour, and this is a sure sign of a great cigar.
If you can get the maduro P80, go for it. I lucked out as the sales guy at CigarPlace emailed me when they had a few boxes in stock and I grabbed one. A lucky guy in the land of Oz traded 4 of my maduro P 80’s for a some Partagas EL piramides 2000, and I think he clearly won on this deal. I now regret trading 4 away.
I gave one to a client, who emailed me and bluntly said: “where the fuk did you get this cigar bomb from?”.
CA rated this cigar a 95.
My rating: easy a 95. Good call CA.
Enjoy them if you can get them.
BTW: To the guys at Padron, you are forgiven for the P80 box with the weeping sap. But I am glad the cigars did not remain in the original P80 box and were moved to my humidor, as smoking cedar sap may have been a real turn off.
I now weep tears, as only 3 more P80’s are left.
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Nice review Steve. I have 6 myself. I wanted to complete a box... but maybe like Sheep said, i should just smoke em. Darn struggle with the collector in me!
Posts: 606 | Location: Signal Hill, CA | Registered: April 26, 2007
Great review Steve, I have 4 myself from 2 different boxes. I actually was considering firing one up yesterday evening, but decided I did not want to dig for it. Wish I had read this first since the smoke I chose was dissapointing (review to post later.
Def gonna move these up on my smoke list and I have procured some perfect port to pair the padron with. Hooray for alliteration!
Great review Steve! Thanks. My B&M guy gave me one of these. A memory! I asked him about a box and he just laughed at me. I asked him who I had to kill to get abox. This is a rock solid smoke IMO! $30.00 and worth it!
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Posts: 95 | Location: NOVA | Registered: February 15, 2008
