Ashton VSG Torpedo,
This dark figurado is box pressed and silky. The draw is perfect and the smoke is rich. Meaty, full-bodied flavors have notes of leather and earth. The cigar started smooth and finished smooth, I smoked it all the way down to the nub and it never got too hot. The cigar gets its filler and binder from the Dominican Republic and it wrapper from Ecuador.
Ashton makes a great line of cigars and the VSGs are among the top of the line. I think that I liked this one as good if not just a touch better than the San Cristobal that I bought at this same smoke-shop a couple of weeks ago.
I rate this cigar at an A- and would add it to my top 10 list.
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GREAT smoke. The Missile measures 5×48 and is a dark wrapper and filler. It lit and burned evenly. The beginning was a tad heavy and dark, but that quickly went away and left a great, woodsy, maduro taste. The cigar never got hot and burned almost perfectly even down to the very nub. I’m definitely going to get another one of these cigars, I am quite impressed. Rate is A-.
Rocky Patel
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Every since I read the article in this month’s Aficianado Magazine about Don Pepin Garcia and all the different cigars he wraps, I’ve wanted to try one of these San Cristobals. These smokes are wrapped by Don Pepin and produced by Ashton. Click here for some more info on that relationship.
This was a great smoke, just like almost every other Pepin Garcia cigar I have had. It started smooth and ended very smooth, I smoked it down to the very end. It did start to get a little hot towards the end, but it wasn’t too hot to smoke. There was plenty of smoke and the draw was very easy. I rate this cigar at an A-.
Now having said all that, I don’t think that I would smoke this cigar on a regular basis. I’d like to try 1 or 2 more of the Vitolas but frankly after I try them I probably won’t buy any more. They are great smokes, but they taste very similar to the Don Pepin Garcia Black-Label Line or the Tatuajes. And since the San Cristobals are $2-$3 higher than the other 2, I will probably stick with the cheaper ones.
Ashton, Don Pepin Garcia, San Cristobal
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Super Fuerte means super strong, and this cigar was definitely strong. It started somewhat bitter, though not too much, and was full of smoke and a hearty, maduro full-flavor. This Vitola measures 6×52 and are hand-made in Honduras, with filler from Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It burned quite evenly. About 1/5 of the way into the cigar, the bitterness went away and I got just a very deep, dark, maduro mouth full of smoke.
Frankly this smoke was a little heavy for me. I like Maduro cigars most of the time, but this was just a little too much. I am very interested to try their Natural wrapper cigar because the flavor of the Maduro was quite nice, just a tad too strong for my tastes. I’d rate this smoke at a B+.
Indian Tabac
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I am sitting at the Euless Cigar Shop right now smoking this Camacho. This is my first Camacho, but I have read good things about them and decided to try one. It starts quite smooth and tasteful, and has plenty of smoke. I’m only about 1/3 of the way into the cigar right now, but I can tell that I am going to like it. It has a somewhat harsh taste, but not in a bad way, more like just a good, dark Maduro flavor. The draw is very good and the smoke isn’t hot at all, at least not yet. It isn’t the best cigar I have had, and I don’t think I would put it in my top 10, but for $5.80 I think that I will probably smoke this one again some time.
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This was a big sucker, measuring 6 ¼ X 60 – I smoked it at the weekly poker game last night and it lasted for a while. I recently reviewed the A. Fuente Canones as a larger cigar that was good to smoke at a poker game and I liked this one better than the Padron. This Padron, in my opinion, was just too big of a ring-gauge. It started kinda of bland and gained a good taste that I am used to with Padron about 1/5 of the way into the cigar, so I was happy with that. However, the cigar started to get a little hotter towards the last 1/3, so I wasn’t real impressed.
Compared to the Padron 2000, which I really like, I don’t think the 7000 is worth the extra cash, even with the extra size. I guess that it was just too large of a ring gauge for me. I rate this at a C+ and will probably just stick with the 2000 and 4000 series.
Padron