I'm a big Brazilian junkie. I love the dark earthiness and chocolate tones that the Brazilian soil brings to their leafs of tobacco, I'm also slightly bias to Brazilians and am willing to pay attention to a cigar more if it has Brazilian tobacco in it. Whether it be binder wrapper or filler, I'm always interested in a Brazilian. But don't think I'll automatically approve of this smoke, but I can tell you early on that this is the best and cheapest cigar in CAO's "International Line". But this vitola in The Italia and the America has been giving me some problems, but is it the same disappointment in this Brazilia?
SPECS-
Size-6x50
Wrapper-Brazilian
Binder-Nicaragua
Filler-Nicaragua
Cost-$6.50
Smoke Time-50 mins
Cut-Guillotine
FIRST IMPRESSIONS-This is a very nice wrapper, the dark brown is very figured, in some spots the wrapper is almost black and contrast the brown filler tobacco quite nicely when you compared the two. The wrapper was very fragrant and had a slight leather smell to it. The foot had a lovely aroma of raisins and touches of earth. The cold taste was delicious, it was of a very sweet date and with a perfect draw it made my mouth water. What a great cigar to finish my CAO comparison.
FIRST THIRD-Beginning with your first puffs you'll notice that this cigar is ve
ry dark and rich. Plenty of thick white smoke welcome you along with a deep mocha flavor. The cigar burns very slowly and almost perfect burn line. The spice is hits you on your nose and its very pleasurable, it makes you pay attention to the cigar. As the cigar progresses into the second third a raisin like flavors start building up.
SECOND THIRD-The raisin builds into a well rounded flavor for the mocha to rest on. The sweetness of the raisin and the deep tones of the mocha go really well together, so far this is a very well rounded stick. The spice picks up a little bit as the smoke works its way to the last third and
here is where I got nervous, the longest ash falls and I'm to be expecting the downwards spiral of this cigar.
Last Third-This cigar like the other Vitolas I tried also suffers from the unusual odd flavor. But here they're not that bad. Since this is already a dark cigar the "odd flavor profile" isn't too big of an impact here. The mocha gets a lot dirtier with this, almost bringing along a cocoa powder taste to it, the raisin flavor also gets more well rounded and sweeter, but its a funky sweet like you know that flavor isn't supposed to be there. After the cigar works its way through this slump all
the complexities of this stick pretty much leave which is disappointing. You just get a dark,faint taste of leather and mocha, its a boring and not very pronounced flavor but for whatever reason the cigar was very hard to put down.
LAST IMPRESSIONS-This was overall a good and complex smoke and without a doubt the best in CAO line. Though I like the box-pressed Brazilia better I thought it'd be better to use the same vitola sizes for a fairer comparison because the box press would blow everything outta of the water. This cigar is also cheap for the complexity it involves and is cheap enough for an everyday smoke. Good thing too, because the America is way too damn expensive.
RATING-84
Buy it Again? Yes,
Recommended It? Yes, try the Box-press you won't be disappointed.
SPECS-
Size-6x50
Wrapper-Brazilian
Binder-Nicaragua
Filler-Nicaragua
Cost-$6.50
Smoke Time-50 mins
Cut-Guillotine
FIRST IMPRESSIONS-This is a very nice wrapper, the dark brown is very figured, in some spots the wrapper is almost black and contrast the brown filler tobacco quite nicely when you compared the two. The wrapper was very fragrant and had a slight leather smell to it. The foot had a lovely aroma of raisins and touches of earth. The cold taste was delicious, it was of a very sweet date and with a perfect draw it made my mouth water. What a great cigar to finish my CAO comparison.
FIRST THIRD-Beginning with your first puffs you'll notice that this cigar is ve
ry dark and rich. Plenty of thick white smoke welcome you along with a deep mocha flavor. The cigar burns very slowly and almost perfect burn line. The spice is hits you on your nose and its very pleasurable, it makes you pay attention to the cigar. As the cigar progresses into the second third a raisin like flavors start building up.SECOND THIRD-The raisin builds into a well rounded flavor for the mocha to rest on. The sweetness of the raisin and the deep tones of the mocha go really well together, so far this is a very well rounded stick. The spice picks up a little bit as the smoke works its way to the last third and
here is where I got nervous, the longest ash falls and I'm to be expecting the downwards spiral of this cigar.Last Third-This cigar like the other Vitolas I tried also suffers from the unusual odd flavor. But here they're not that bad. Since this is already a dark cigar the "odd flavor profile" isn't too big of an impact here. The mocha gets a lot dirtier with this, almost bringing along a cocoa powder taste to it, the raisin flavor also gets more well rounded and sweeter, but its a funky sweet like you know that flavor isn't supposed to be there. After the cigar works its way through this slump all
the complexities of this stick pretty much leave which is disappointing. You just get a dark,faint taste of leather and mocha, its a boring and not very pronounced flavor but for whatever reason the cigar was very hard to put down.LAST IMPRESSIONS-This was overall a good and complex smoke and without a doubt the best in CAO line. Though I like the box-pressed Brazilia better I thought it'd be better to use the same vitola sizes for a fairer comparison because the box press would blow everything outta of the water. This cigar is also cheap for the complexity it involves and is cheap enough for an everyday smoke. Good thing too, because the America is way too damn expensive.
RATING-84
Buy it Again? Yes,
Recommended It? Yes, try the Box-press you won't be disappointed.
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