Review Notes: What a fake cigar! It tastes like burnt toast - and not at all sweet or mellow, but lackluster and a bit like tin. It cannot have been test marketed, 'cause there is no way the public would consume it. There are worse smokes out there, and if anything, this is a good introductory cigar for real rookies. Maybe that's what they were going for and kept all the good leaf for other R&J stogies.