Quick Smoke: Cuesta-Rey Centro Fino Sungrown No. 9
16 May 2009
Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief take on a single cigar.
While I enjoyed this belicoso-shaped stick (6.25 x 52) when I reviewed it in September 2007, I could have done without the traces of sour, stale notes that popped up from time to time. Today, after approximately 20 months in my humidor, those unfortunate flavors were gone, leaving behind a not-too-creamy, not-too-spicy profile of sweet hay, graham, earth, and tea. The already impressive physical properties were also improved. The moral of the story? Pick up this Sumatra-seed Ecuadorian sungrown-wrapped cigar, be patient, and you will be rewarded handsomely.
Verdict = Buy.
photo credit: Stogie Guys
Patrick Ashby
Co-Founder & Editor in Chief
Patrick Semmens
Co-Founder & Publisher
George Edmonson
Tampa Bureau Chief
Got one of these in a sampler recently and really did not like it – tasted bland and (as you noted in your earlier review) kind of sour all the way through. Never bad enough to put it down altogether, but in the end I felt like it was a wasted hour I could have spent smoking something else. I don't know if I have the patience to get another one and let it sleep that long…