I picked one up today and smoked it. It was a little windy. It burned a little hot and had a slightly bitter taste. I will have to try it again in better conditions, a guy from the shop I got it at said he enjoyed the one he had.
I just like cigars, is that ok?
Posts: 797 | Location: Fayetteville, Ga | Registered: November 13, 2006
Not that full-bodied. The span of "full bodied" cigars is so big. It wont make you sick or anything. I wouldn't worry about it. Similar to the Ligero, maybe a little less.
I just like cigars, is that ok?
Posts: 797 | Location: Fayetteville, Ga | Registered: November 13, 2006
So Jon Paul, did you smoke one (or more) of these yet? I am convinced now and I hope to pick up a couple sometime in the next week or so. Cameroons are usually not that full bodied, so perhaps this will be a real treat.
Posts: 1884 | Location: San Francisco, CA, USA | Registered: August 20, 2003
La Flor event is scheduled for this Saturday at my local B&M. I love Cameroon and love La Flor so I'll be picking up some of those for sure along with my usual DL lanceros. I'll try to remember to post here after I smoke the cammie.
This is an aboslutely oustanding cigar if you like Cameroon. I smoked a lonsdale size yesterday (I think it was called the No. 1) and it was among the best cigars I've ever had and certainly had the best balance of flavors of any Cameroon-wrapped cigar I've smoked.
I was enjoying the cigar too much to dissect the flavors but it starts off remarkably smoothly and comes on strong within the first few puffs...no waiting an inch or two for it to "warm up." The construction, burn and draw were flawless throughout and the wrapper, from a distance, doesn't look very Cameroon-like until you get up close and feel and touch it...then you see how delicately toothy it is. But behind glass, from a few feet away, it looks like, say, lush Ecuadorian sungrown.
About halfway down the cigar picks up some nice, very light spice notes and overall it's an earthy, slight woody smoke overlaid with that distinictive Cameroon twang.
Four of us smoked them together; the two of us who are partial to Cameroon went nuts over the cigar, and the two guys who could take or leave Cameroon agreed it was an excellent cigar but not necessarily something they'd go out of their way to smoke again.
If you smoke it, make sure you do so on a fresh palette: the cigar is medium-bodied and complex but some of the nuances are very delicate. This is not a cigar for after a hearty meal but rather, a very nice after-breakfast or lunchtime smoke.
I'm glad you had a good experience. I will have to pick up the size you did, and smoke it in a better environment. It is more of an after lunch cigar like you said. That is when I had mine. It was just so windy I feel it made the cigar a little too bitter.
I just like cigars, is that ok?
Posts: 797 | Location: Fayetteville, Ga | Registered: November 13, 2006
anyone have a recommendation on where do pick up a few of these? Thanks
"Cuban seed tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Cuba. The wrapper would be from Cuba. The binder leaves would be from Nicaragua. For the ligero tobacco in the filler, he would use two types, one from Esteli and the other from Jalapa in Nicaragua. The other filler components, seco and viso, would come from Cuba, the former from Villa Clara, the latter from Pinar del Rio. That Cigar, he says with pride, would score 100 points." -Don Pepin Garcia
Posts: 1001 | Location: Here | Registered: December 11, 2006
Originally posted by The Wolfe: anyone have a recommendation on where do pick up a few of these? Thanks
That's the hard part. Any store that wants to carry these must also agree to stock the full line of Litto Gomez, which many stores refuse to do because (a) they're expensive and packed only in cabs of 50 and (b) they're not very good -- about a 3-to-1 ratio of strength to flavor and the only bad cigar in the entire La Flor range.
If you find Litto Gomez cigars, you'll probably find the Cammies. The store I go to got two boxes this week and they're mostly spoken for, though they do have some robusto left and a torpedo size is coming next week.
I'm a little confused on that comment. Are you saying that they are not very good or are you saying that most people don't enjoy them. And which ones are you talking about?
Do you mean the Litto Gomez Diez and the Small Batch, or the whole line?
I just like cigars, is that ok?
Posts: 797 | Location: Fayetteville, Ga | Registered: November 13, 2006
Most people I know don't like them. You can search for my review, but in a nutshell, they really disappointed me. I have no idea what Litto Gomez was trying to achieve. The cigar looks and smokes great, but I got almost zero flavor from them...less flavor than a Macanudo, actually....it literally was just all power like straight grain alcohol. Of course, your mileage may vary. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from trying them...I mean, I also hated the relentlessly one-dimensional Camacho Triple Maduro and yet almost everyone I know loves them (except one guy who, surprise surprise, steadfastly demands complexity from his cigars).
I just picked up a box of 20 La Flor Limitado II's from Jack Schwartz. According the the story on the website, they are from the original batch and have been aged a year. Supposedly there are only 25 boxes. The box comes signed by Gomez, which I thought was a nice touch. They were pretty reasonably priced, so I figured why not.
