I found a few more cigars in the pack from Smoke-Onos that I hadn’t smoked before and gave them a go this week. First up was the Blackbird Cigars Glitch Habano. This was a 5″ x 50 robusto with a Habano wrapper, Mexican binder and American and Dominican fillers, not that their website was any help with that info! Originally, the Glitch cigars came about because of a mix up at the factory. The fact that there are Glitch line extensions makes me wonder about that, but I guess they just made tweeks on the original “mistake”. These are very attractively priced, around $7 in PA, and I was quite pleasantly surprised with the experience. The flavors were interesting, what I would call exotic spices, and the burn and draw were perfect. This was a really good cigar.
I ended up with a few cigars from Artista, this one was the Colorado. The barcode label on this was wrong, it was for a Cimarron Maduro, but the band clearly said Colorado. I want to try the Cimarron one of these days. I spent a couple really nice weeks backpacking near Cimarron, New Mexico back in 1981, good memories. Not that I haven’t a good time in Colorado, but in this case it refers to a color, not the state. This 5″ x 54 robusto has a very interesting blend. It has an Ecuadorian Corojo wrapper, Ecuadorian Sumatra binder and Central American, African & Caribbean Proprietary Tobaccos in the filler. It’s a good looking cigar, like it’s name implies, it’s a ruddy, reddish brown, very appealing. This was another cigar with interesting flavors. I think there was a hint cayenne, along with some chocolate. I found it quite entertaining. This is another sub-$8 cigar that’s definitely worth a try. Now to hunt down a Cimarron.
Last up is the Ferio Tego Metropolitan Connecticut, in a 6½” x 52 torpedo vitola. This is a classic Dominican shade cigar, it has a Connecticut wrapper with Dominican binder and fillers. I believe it’s made by the Quesada family. The Metropolitan brand was acquired from Altria when the shut down the Nat Sherman cigar operations, so it’s possible that you could run across Metropolitan by Nat Sherman somewhere, but its been a few years, so that’s becoming less and less likely. I’ve smoked some Metropolitan cigars in the past, but not a great many, this is the first Connecticut I’ve had. I just checked, and I have a Connecticut toro in the humidor with a Nat Sherman band (along with a VIP selection that I picked up at the townhouse many years ago). Anyway, I enjoyed the cigar, it had the bready, woody, creamy flavors one would expect. I want to say these can be obtained for around $10, so this whole blog post has featured what are now considered value cigars.
I wanted to fly someplace interesting this weekend to smoke some cigars, but Frontier wasn’t cooperating. I used to be able to find morning flights, with evening return flights, but now it’s not so easy. Suggestions are welcome. That’s all for today, until the next time,
CigarCraig
