Padilla Edition Especial Achilles Torpedo Review

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Originally Posted by Stinkdyr

This well-made medium brown log had 2006 on the band. I got it for about $2 from cbid. I clipped the point at about 1/2" and found a nice easy prelight draw to go along with the good looking wrapper. It lit and burned well, until the last half canoe. This was a VERY MILD body cigar and the flavor was basically tasteless tobacco. Dunno, maybe it was aged too long before being shipped. It has been in my humi 2 months. Volume of smoke was medium to low. I would not buy it again even for $1 since there are so many other good stix out there to really enjoy. I rate it AVOID.

What a description, no wonder you didn't enjoy it.

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I got one of these in a sampler I bought from a BOTL here on Puff... I've been looking for an excuse to smoke it sooooooooo.......

I'll smoke mine tonight & throw my in on this stick as well.

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Well... I smoked mine last night... And my verdict is...

Wasn't bad at all. I enjoyed it! Mine was more of a Churchill size. Good construction, with a almost shiny polished wrapper that looked almost waxy in appearence. It was on the mild side like Stinkdyr said, & I didn't get much smoke out of it as I would like, burn issues were minimum... I touched it up a couple of times... But I really started to enjoy this stick @ the halfway point. Nutty, coffee, with Corojo twang is what I got from this stick. Didn't blow my socks off, but not bad at all. I'd say from all the stuff currently from Padilla, I'd put it 4th in this order...

1.) 1932
2.) Miami
3.) Habano
4.) Achilles

So.... I'd smoke it again. I don't know about paying close to $10 for one... But if you can grab some for a couple of bucks each like some of the above posters have said?.... I'd go down this road again.