Review Notes: Tasted while still young, this cigar smelled awesome prelight...but didn't follow up with anything remotely resembling the excellence of other reviewer's samples. It started out medium+ in body with a nice earthy tone with a bit too much nicaraguan twang to be called cubanesque. At about 1 inch in it developed a decidedly stale cigarette smoke flavor that tainted the flavor until halfway through. I've noted this with some other Padillas from the regular line, maybe someone was smoking while they rolled this one. Otherwise good touches of oak and leather over an earthy core would have made this excellent. I'll re-review in the hopes that this was just a bum stick.