Cigar:            Holt's Classic Robusto - manufactured for Holt's by Fuente

Size:             50 x 5.5"

Wrapper:          Ecuador sun grown

Binder:           DR

Filler:           DR

Flavor Body:      Medium

Stength:          Mild-Medium

Country:          DR

Date Received:    2004-05-21

Suspected Age:   

Vendor/Price:     Gifted from Beans, ASC - Thank you!

Beverage(s):      Full Sail Pale Ale

Smoke time:       1:15

Date:             2004-08-09

Posted to ASC:    2004-08-10

Overall score:    3.4/5.0

Overall:    Nice smoke.  The basic note is toasted nutty sweet (I may need new adjectives :-).  Flavor changed little over the smoke.  Burn was good.  Nice solid cigar. 

Ambience:   Hot!  90+, Cloudless sky.  Just finished a 40 minute bike ride. 

Gentle variable breeze.  Sitting in the shade.  High tide, Puget Sound is pretty

flat, though the sails are up and full.  The sun has about 30 minutes before it

disappears behind the Olympic Mts which form the western horizon.  The highest

peaks still sport a few spots of snow.  A couple of freighters leave port steaming

north on the tide, one, a long low grain boat with seven huge hatches, the other

stacked high with multicolored containers.  Reading a book - Primary Aerobatic

Flight Training with Military Techniques - published in the 1970s. 

Construction:     Triple cap.  Nice wrapper, though thin.  Small veins with 1/4" split

at foot.  Quite firm except at head which was a little soft. 

Prelight:   Mild aroma.  Cut well exposing some large veins.  Draw good.  Draw

flavor very mild. 

First third:      Lit nicely and burned fairly straight throughout the smoke.  Evened

out an early excursion with a bit o' spit.  Toasty with a nutty finish.  Lots of

smoke.  A bit of liquorice in the finish.  Draw opened up some and was perfect. 

I ashed it at 2".

Second third:     Still toasty sweet finish with a hint of fading bitterness in the

foretaste.

Third third:      Bitterness was transitory and short-lived - now gone.  Ashed at

about 1.5".  Abandoned it with 1.5" left as it got hot.  No nicotine buzz.