Saturday, January 24, 2009

CAO Eileen’s dream

It comes in a nice little tubo and that is probably the only positive I can say about this cigar. It is wrapped in cellophane inside the tubo. The aroma is a weird sweet coffee smell. The difference between the White Owl’s, Phillies, Hookah’s and Swissers is that this cigar needs to be cut.


The flavor is chemical, chemical sugar, and that is it. A nasty sweetness which makes me cough a lot.


The burn is close to perfect and there is plenty of smoke coming from this nasty stick.

 

Would I buy this cigar again? Hell no!


Construction: 7 / 10
Draw: 7 / 10
Appearance: 6 / 10
Smoke & ash: 7 / 10
Burn: 8 / 10
Aroma (first part) 3.5 / 10
Aroma (middle part) 3.5 / 10
Aroma (last part) 3.5 / 10

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

CAO Moontrance

What can I say? The packaging is nice, a fine, arty blue tube to hold the ring 30 4 ¾ inch cigar and the tube keeps the smell of air freshener combined with pastry nicely concealed. The wrapper is real tobacco, not the tobacco paper that Swisser Sweets use. It has some nice veins.



After lighting this horrible thing I smell a terrible sweet smell and the flavor is like a very chemical suger candy. The flavor is concentrated on the lips and not in the mouth. I feel a little burning sensation on the tip of my tongue.

 

The draw is light but this cigar produces a lot of smoke for a little thing.

 

Would I buy this cigar again?  Yes, and I will give it to people who I dislike

Construction: 14 / 20
Draw: 14 / 20
Appearance: 14 / 20
Smoke && ash: 7 / 10
Burn: 12 / 20
Aroma (foot) 3 / 10
Aroma (body) 3 / 10
Aroma (head) 3 / 10

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

CAO Italia Gondola

This ring 54 6 inch torpedo with Italian grown filler and a nice dark silky wrapper looks classy, smells classy, and has a great construction and a nice azzuri cigar band.

 

What I taste is a bit salty wood and tobacco but the salty flavor disappears and the cigar gets a bit sweet, sweet cedar. After about 2 inch the sweetness disappears too and it’s just one flavor: cedar. Halfway there is a period where the cigar is a bit bitter and when that disappears it is the wood again.


The rum that I drank brings out the sweetness of the cigar. The smoke is ok but it could be a little more. The ash is firm.


Would I buy this cigar again? No, like all CAO cigars I tried so far, once but never again.

Construction: 16 / 20
Draw: 14 / 20
Appearance: 14 / 20
Smoke & ash: 7 / 10
Burn: 16 / 20
Aroma (first part) 6 / 10
Aroma (middle part) 6 / 10
Aroma (last part) 6 / 10

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