Four of the Six Cigars from the CigarProp Sampler from Cigar Bundles of Miami

A couple months ago I placed an order with Cigar Bundles of Miami and one of the items I picked up was the CigarProp Sampler. Of course, one of the reasons I got this was to support Kevin of CigarProp, who has supported me for so many years. He’s a great friend and I get behind whatever ventures he’s involved in. I’ve had some great experiences with cigars from Cigar Bundles of Miami too. There were six cigars in the sampler, and it was on sale for $19.99, which made it ridiculous not to buy it. I think cigars are made in the US, although at the price, I find that hard to believe. The first cigar I smoked was the Green Moon (or Green Yin, depending on where on the website one looks). Like many of the cigars in this sampler, this is a piece of art. It has a maduro wrapper with stripes of Connecticut shade, with a candela crescent in the middle of the cigar. It’s also box pressed. It’s a beautiful cigar. It’s listed as a Nicaraguan puro. This had a very interesting flavor, You’d think that it would be predominantly maduro, but it had the brightness of candela in the mix, which was very interesting. Very unique and interesting. 

Next I smoked what would appear to be the opposite of this cigar, they call it the Inner Peace, it’s a Candela wrapper with what look to be habano accents and a Maduro and Connecticut Shade Yin and Yang symbol in the middle, also box pressed, and also a Nicaraguan Puro. This is another beautiful piece of cigar art. These cigars are almost too cool looking to smoke, but at the price, it’s easy to justify lighting them up and enjoying them. Interestingly, this cigar didn’t taste a whole lot different than the Green Moon! I would have thought it would have been all Candela, but it wasn’t. Sure, there was that bright candela flavor there, but it wasn’t dominant. I can say that if you hate Candela, you aren’t going to hate these cigars! I thought it was interesting that this cigar had a “tan line” where it looked like it was in a bundle that one side might have been exposed to light. 

Next up was a Nicaraguan/Honduran blend that they call “La Bala. These are interesting shaped torpedos, with a bit of a stepped taper.  Like the other two, this is 6” long, and is probably 56 ring gauge (the others are toros).  I can’t find any specific blend information, but I’d put my money on a Habano wrapper with shade accents. It was a nice tasting cigar, on the milder side, although it took a few cuts to get the draw right. The sampler comes with two of these that have different designs. I think I have smoked this before and might have more of these somepace. I continue to be amazed by the amount of handwork involved in these and how they can let them go for such a reasonable price. 

Tonight I smoked the straight candela toro. They list this as the Tampa Candela, and it’s a Nicaraguan Puro. Does this mean it’s rolled in Tampa? I’m not sure. I’ve smoked a great many candela cigars, and this is actually one of the better tasting candela cigars I’ve had. It was surprisingly good. It was Cro Magnon Fomorian good. Again, this is the kind of candela that if you don’t like candela, you just might like. It had the refreshing, bright flavor you’d expect, but it wasn’t grassy. It was sweet, and smoked very nice, although it took a few minutes to get it burning. It was raining like crazy so it was very humid. Once I got it burning it smoked well. Again, hard to believe these are as inexpensive as they are. I can’t wait to smoke the box pressed maduro. I have a whole bunch of neat looking and great tasting cigars in my humidor from Cigar Bundles of Miami. I’d smoked them all the time if I didn’t have so many other cigars to smoke! 

Full disclosure: I purchased the cigars discussed in this post and receive no compensation or consideration from Cigar Bundles of Miami. 

That’s all for now, until the next time, 

CigarCraig