Cigar:            Drew.Estate.La.Vieja.Habana.Cedar.Chateau.#3

Size:             44 x 6.5"

Country:          Nic

Wrapper:          Nic, Corojo

Binder:           Nic

Filler:           Nic

Flavor Strength:  Medium

NicotineStength:  Medium

Date Received:    2004-05-21 gift from SkyHawkXP, ASC (Thanks!)

Suspected Age:    18 months - SkyHawk received it 2003-09

Vendor/Price:    

Beverage(s):      Water, Mirror Pond Pale Ale

Smoke time:       1:30

Date:             2005-04-24

Posted to ASC:    2005-04-24

Overall score:    3.5/5.0

Overall:    Pretty rough looking stick.  Initially sweet and nutty with some pepper, then the nuttiness became roasted, the pepper abated, and the finish sweetened and lengthened, then the nuttiness transitioned to a cedar woodiness with a long, sweet finish, intensifying until the end of the smoke.  Nice. 

Ambience:   A warm sunny day in the PNW.  Mid-afternoon, Mariner's vs. the Indians on the radio, little women hand-sewing butterflies for a quilt by my side.  I'm reading the WSJ and Sparky Imeson's Mountain Flying Bible.  Blissed out ...

Construction:     Pretty rough looking stick.  Very nice band.  No cedar wrap.  Slightly darker than milk chocolate colored wrapper with a long cap, BIG veins, and some tooth.  Wrapper is cracked at about the 1/3 point, but was not factor.  Barnyard aroma.

Cut & Prelight:   Cut perfectly and a good slightly resistive draw.  Mild draw flavor with just a bit of a tingle. 

First third:      First puffs sweet and nutty with some pepper.  Over this third the nuttiness became roasted, the pepper abated, and the finish sweetened and lengthened.

Second third:     Over this third the nuttiness transitioned to a cedar woodiness with a long, sweet finish.

Third third:      More cedar, more sweetness in the finish.