So I got home and decided to begin my journey into the world of cigar smoking. This is an absolutely beautiful cigar that has been luring me in with it’s gorgeous black, white, and gold band for the past couple of weeks.

The construction of the cigar was gorgeous there were very few veins in the latte colored wrapper. It had a slight sponginess when given a light squeeze. Overall I’d give the construction a 9/10.

I took this sweet little number out of my humidor cut the cap off with a good, sharp guillotine cutter. The prelight draw produced a sweet creamy flavor, almost candylike in quality. After toasting the foot it was time to spark up this sweet little stick. It took the flame nicely and began with a nice even burn. The first half it felt like I had to work to get a good draw out of the stick and even then it was definitely on the tight side. At first I was confronted with a white peppery/leather flavor that quickly fades into a creamy sweetness. Most of the first half I was plagued with a terribly tight draw and had some real difficulty relaxing with this cigar even though the flavors were phenomenal. I also had some significant burn issues, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before from a cigar. I had to do some burn maintenance twice in the first half but after the first half ended the burn and draw issues faded a bit. Due to the windiness up here in the great white north the ash wouldn’t stick around for very long.

Into the second half the creamy sweetness stayed but I started to get hints of pepper, leather and occasionally earthy tones. Overall I didn’t last very long into the second half due to a combination of the earlier draw issues, cold weather and upkeep necessary to keep the cigar going at times. It just felt like the tight draw really prejudiced me against this stick.

This is definitely a mild/medium cigar but with some pretty nice flavors in it and some nice surprises if you don’t get a stick with draw/occasional burn issues.

I decided to do some research on this cigar before I posted this review and it turns out that very few people have had these draw issues so I think I may have messed up somewhere.

Here are the grades

Construction: 9/10

Flavor Profile: 7/10

Burn: 5/10

Draw: 1/10

Overall Experience: 6/10