Review Notes: for a CAO, this is average, but for anyone else this is pretty good. A solid feeling cigar, the flavor is stright wood. No big frills, but I liked it. Kind of a strange band, but oh well. I recommend these for 2-3 buck each.

Review Notes: I like the CAO Brazilians and some of the other CAOs but I was disappointed in this one. It started out as a nice even burn but about 1/3 of the way it started burning uneven. It was spicy with a bit of cocoa. I will stick to the Brazilians.

Review Notes: I have heard of the construction issues with the CX2 and I had none. Good straight burn and no unraveling. The wrapper was nice and oily and I had it sitting in my humi for 6 months. Flavor was sweet with a little nutmeg and stayed throughout. I smoked it to the nub with coffee in the morning - a lower end medium smoke I think. I am a big Brazilia fan and I like the flavor profile in that line better, especially the Gol. Got this in a sampler from Atlantic so I did not pay the normal price. I would smoke this again if the price was right.

Review Notes: I really enjoyed this cigar, although the uneven burn was a little irritating. It was a little dry though. So I will have to get another store it in my own humidor to my specs and then try it after a month, some of these stores do not pay enough attention to humidor conditions.

Review Notes: I am a cigar smoking neophyte. Thew was my third cigar experience. Sliced the cap with brand new double blade cutters, and it split to about an inch beyond the band from the cap. I would fault my technique, but even being new to smoking, I have cut two others, with not so much as a problem. I used identical technique. The stogie must have been very dry, but it was pliable, yet firm enough when I selected it. Smoked it about 1.5 hours later, after being in a sealed bag, inside the shade of a glove box, on a mild, sunny winter day. I can't imagine that it dried out *that* much, as my wife had an acid in the same bag, that presented fine. Both were in the cello that they were displayed in from the humidor at the shop. The appearance looked fine, and was firm, yet pliable on initial inspection. The wrapper seemed nicely finished, with a slightly satin sheen. The smoke itself was wholly unremarkable. No complexity of flavor, in comparison to Ghurka, or Java by Drew Estate smokes I've sampled. Perhaps I just got a bad one, but life is too short to and there are too many smoking options out there to repeat past bad experiences.