Appearance and Construction (13 of 15 points possible)
Nice band! The wrapper is somewhat vieny but it has a nice brown color with a reddish hue! It also seemed somewhat under filled, kinda loose!
Flavor ( 1 of 25 points possible)
I know you guys are saying ONE!!!! WTF!!! Well the taste sucked big sweaty donkey balls! The very first draw was the whole 1 point, I could taste some chocolate mixed with coffea and from there it went down hill fast! The best way for me to descrine it is slimey dull bitter dirt/mud type of flavor with a sweaty type of taste!!! The smoke coats the back of your tongue and throat and stays there, producing a slimey affect. I tried very hard to smoke this thing thinking to myself its gonna change any minute but the sad thing is it dont, just a nasty @$$ one-dimensional smoke. WTF!! I chunked it at half way before I puked and was ruined for ever!
Smoking Characteristics (11 of 25 points possible)
THis zeegar lit perfectly, good even light. The draw was really loose and the burn was uneven but managable! The ash was real flaky and ugly, but hung on a while! The aroma was dull and lifeless just no ambiance to this cigar at all!
Overall impression (10 of 35 points possible)
This was one of the biggest letdowns I have ever had, just simply depressing because I had great expectations for this cigar. They should have spent more time on the blend and tobacco instead of the packaging! The Packaging is nice though! This is easily one of the worst cigars I have ever smoked! Dog Rocket Deluxe! If I was in a blind taste test I would swear it was a Thompsons house brand.
Overall Score-35
Posts: 4793 | Location: Texas | Registered: June 15, 2003
I have to come to the defense here. While there is no doubt that you have much more experience than I with cigars, I really think you just got a bad one. Perhaps try another, and if you have the same result, then so be it, but I really like these. I just purchased a box and I have been very happy with them. For the moeny, I think the Padron is the only better option. But, as I said, I am still relatively new so my youngish palate could be missing something. Also, while most here disregard the CA ratings, they sure noted some interesting flavors in the smoke compared to yours.
quote:Originally posted by adgrant: I have to come to the defense here. While there is no doubt that you have much more experience than I with cigars, I really think you just got a bad one. Perhaps try another, and if you have the same result, then so be it, but I really like these. I just purchased a box and I have been very happy with them. For the moeny, I think the Padron is the only better option. But, as I said, I am still relatively new so my youngish palate could be missing something. Also, while most here disregard the CA ratings, they sure noted some interesting flavors in the smoke compared to yours.
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Interesting flavors Huh! Yeah I would describe slimey sweaty dirt as interesting! I always try something twice, but this thing was nasty, Agrant! I wish you could have smoked it. Maybe its only the robusto, who knows but there are other members who got the same thing from it. Maybe its one of those luv it or hate it smokes, its my opinion, eveyone is different and then again some of us have similiar tastes. Those with similiar tastes as mine can use this review for there opinion or whatever. I'm sure there are cigars I like u dont. If we all liked the same smoke it would suck because then there wouldnt be any and they wouldnt be worth a **** because of the demand, therefor quality would be ****ty! I know who I can go by on here and who I cant. So to round things up this particular one sucked, but I will try another if given the chance. I will not buy one, this cigar almost scarred me for life! LATER!
Posts: 4793 | Location: Texas | Registered: June 15, 2003
I am not a person that is swayed one way or another because of a review but WOW!!!!! I love this cigar. I have had about 30 of them and have loved every one except the churchills. Great construction,fantastic wrapper,wonderful smell,burns perfect. Wanna trade??????
I would have to agree with both Idesign and stoge. I thought the pyramid was decent but the robusto sucked big donkey balls. It had some good discernable flavors but there was definitely a charry muddy taste to many of the draws. I would be willing to try the pyramid again, maybe even buy some and age them but I am done with the robusto. It actually made me gag when I smoked it. Of course stoge - it could have just been the ones we got. Maybe that box was just nasty.
I had one of these last night, and I couldn't agree more. By no means do I consider myself an expert, but I know what I like...and this ain't it. In it's defense, it wasn't nearly as bad about 2/3 of the way through it, but that may be because my taste buds went back in the house without me. It's kind of the same as grain alcohol... doesn't taste quite as bad after about three or four shots.
Posts: 54 | Location: New Hampshire | Registered: July 17, 2004
quote:Originally posted by JohnH: I have a box of these and am hoping the flavor improves in a few months. If not they will make nice gifts
Over 2 years on the box I bought and they still taste horrid. I've never seen one smoked past half by any of my moocher friends. If any of them got half way through, I would be surprised.
I almost bought one about 15 mins ago in my tobacco shop...glad I saw the flor de oliva singles to the left of them...thanks for saving me from possible scarrage.
*Im new and plan to smoke every brand I see*
Posts: 160 | Location: Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Registered: October 06, 2004
just smoked one of these that adgrant sent me in a pif back in may. pretty damn good, imo. sort of tasted like an jdn antona but not as strong. i've smoke the double robusto before and they sucked, had almost kept me from smoking the one adgrant sent me, but i figured the humi time could only help. Maybe adgrant got a good box of these and they are so inconsistent that stogie and the rest just got a bad batch?...
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Posts: 1431 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: November 29, 2003
Hmm...I have a robusto sitting in my humi...I guess I'm gonna let it sit for a long time before I light it up...
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Posts: 1157 | Location: Ferndale, MI | Registered: October 03, 2004
I just got through smoking a corona size LADC I got at the Vegas Big Smoke that I thought was very good. Nice even burn, good looking ash and good flavor. I considered the one I had a finger burner. The robusto size might suck, but the coronas are good. It's surprising the one you smoked was bad as this cigar is made by the Fuentes for Ashton Cigars.
This is an excerpt from the Cigar Aficionado interview with Robert Levin of Ashton Cigars regarding the LADC:
Q: Tell me about your newest cigar, La Aroma de Cuba.
A: I wanted to come out with a different type of cigar at a different price point. It's expensive to make cigars in the Dominican Republic, so we needed to go somewhere else. Also the Fuentes are really maxed out on production. I can't get any more VSGs, I can't get more maduros. They didn't have the production capabilities to do a new brand.
Q: So where did you end up?
A: I'd been talking to my friend Jim Colucci [of Altadis] for quite a long time, and I had been doing business with Flor de Copan [in Honduras] before Altadis bought the factory. I would buy a lot of their seconds, in bundles. And I thought it would be a good place where I could have a brand made. The name La Aroma de Cuba came from a Cigar Aficionado article. I read an article you guys did a long time ago on Winston Churchill. When Churchill was stationed in Cuba in his very young days, one of his favorite cigars was La Aroma de Cuba. So when I researched it, it had just disappeared off the face of the earth. I registered the name, and I'd had it for a long time, five years, before we came out with the brand. And I got a hold of an old label from the original La Aroma de Cuba, which was a beautiful label.
Q: Is that the original Cuban artwork?
A: It's a combination of the original Cuban artwork with another old label; our designer put both of them together. It's very similar to the older label, with a few additions.
Q: Is the wrapper from the factory's farm in northern Honduras?
A: It's a Cuban-seed wrapper that's grown in Honduras, but it's grown by Plasencia. Flor de Copan does grow wrapper, but they don't have enough of it to put on a brand. It's a very small farm. I wanted to use their wrapper, because it tasted great, but they just don't have the quantity to come out with a brand. And they don't have any big leaves to put on larger cigars.
Q: What's the rest of the blend?
A: It's Honduran and Nicaraguan filler, and it's Honduran binder, and it's all Cuban-seed tobacco. It starts at $3.70 and goes to $5. The packaging is beautiful and the cigar is excellent.
Q: How was the reception to La Aroma de Cuba?
A: La Aroma de Cuba has been accepted extremely well, and it was a pretty big hit at the RTDA [Retail Tobacco Dealers of America] show when we introduced it [in 2002]. Our problem, fortunately, is we can't get enough product. We're really behind. Hopefully we'll catch up in the next three or four months, but the demand has outpaced the supply.
Q: How many do you think you'll be able to sell in 2003?
A: We're hoping for a million.
Q: That's a fast start.
A: We're way behind that now. The shipments haven't been coming in as we planned. It's a great cigar, and it's very reasonably priced.
