Review Notes: After my experience with the toro (terrible, see my review), this Churchill is more like it. It was slightly under-filled and soft, but overall it performed adequately. The taste is earthy with some cream and pepper. Age should help the flavor get even better. As I said it burned adequately, even, but pretty quickly. As I smoked the cigar it got spongier and spongier until it became too soft. This cigar was from a sampler that had 20 cigars in 4 different sizes for $50; if they all smoked like this Churchill it would have been a good value. But unfortunately they didn't.