Review Notes: This cigar has a big 60 ring size - I have never had a cigar that big around. It is a medium to full bodied cigar with lots of smoke. Holds a gray to white ash well. Seems to be better made than its perfecto cousins. I smoked it all the way to the nub and enjoyed it. I thought it to have a leather/nutsy taste. Bought it online.

Review Notes: After the negative reviews of this brand in general I was afraid, very afraid , to try them. Mr Booga's review and a good price swayed me. I liked it. Nice med-full clean flavor of wood/cedar mixed with a little pepper and leather. Standard Perdomo poor burn on a large ring gauge cigar. The flavors made up for other short comings. Give one a try I think you'll be surprised.

Review Notes: I was out mowing the yard today and when I was finished, Mrs. Booga and I had to go to the wedding of one of the people she works with. There was a reception, but we didn’t feel like going. Temps were in the upper 80s with a hefty amount of humidity. When we got home, I decided to get in the hot tub (temp is around 95 degrees, so it is just warm enough without being uncomfortable in the heat) and decided to light up a Perdomo Cuban Parejo - never had one before. The baby is real impressive looking - we’re talking a 60 ring size - and the red-tinged brown wrapper is beautiful. I’ve never smoked anything this large before and I had search around for a cutter large enough for its girth. A dry draw produced some heavy peppery tastes and I thought I might be in for so trouble (hadn’t eaten much today, just a bagel, about 4 cups of coffee and a few cheese and crackers), nevertheless I forged ahead. I had some trouble getting it lit properly which yielded a pretty harsh tasting first puff as well as an irregular burn. I settled down in the hot tub and started taking my time with it and the harsh taste disappeared quickly and after a bit the burn evened up on its own. This cigar is a full-flavored baby with voluminous amounts of smoke, but what intrigued me the most was the taste. After the initial harshness (I think because of my botched lighting), the taste evened out into a really nice cedary taste. This lasted through about the first half of the cigar when it started segueing into the peppery taste I had experienced on the dry draw. There was a flash of harshness again just as the peppery taste was kicking in, but it vanished again. Now comes the real interesting part - for the last half of the cigar, the cedar and pepper tastes were both present, but would alternate for dominance. It was truly a unique - but pleasing - experience. For a draw or two I would get a strong pepper taste, followed on the next couple of draws by the cedary taste, than moving back to the pepper. I’ve never experienced anything similar to this, but it was really, really tasty. The ash was a nice medium gray and the initial ash hung on for almost two inches before I tapped it - and that’s with me moving around in a bubbling hot tub. It took me about 80 minutes to kill this baby - my toes were puckering from being in the water that long - but it was definitely worth it. Certainly this cigar is full flavored, but it was never overpowering. The cigar got a little mushy towards the last two inches, but I attribute that for being just above the surface of warm, bubbling water for over an hour. And, yah - I nubbed it. Regarding the large ring size, I didn’t find it bothersome, just don’t be chewin’ on it a lot or yah may land up with lockjaw! This was a real pleasant smoking experience.