Review - Royal Jamaica Gold Churchill

[Texan_To_The_End]

DATE: 2006/06/02
REVIEWER: Timothy "Texan_To_The_End" Piper
CIGAR: Royal Jamaica Gold
SIZE: 7.0 X 54
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Jamaican (?)
FILLER: Nic, Hon
SHAPE: Churchill
AGE: In my humidor since 2006/04/23
VENDOR: Gifted by Pegleg (Thanks again!)
PRICE: No information, but current retail about $5.40 each.
AMBIENCE: 5PM Friday evening, warm humid and still. Enjoyable
weather for a quiet cigar
BEVERAGE: Coffee - black.
APPEARANCE: Very light weight stick. Smooth non-oily wrapper that
looked good. Was in a nice gold foil sleeve also.
PRE_LIGHT: Sort of a grassy taste, lacking in any of the more
"oily" tastes.
DRAW: Extremely easy draw.
FIRST_THIRD: Wrapper tasted almost metallic. I guess I've been
smoking too many maduro's lately, but this just didn't
taste so good.
SECOND_THIRD: Finally the too-metallic wrapper taste diminished a
bit, and it turned into a fair, grassy-tasting smoke.
FINAL_THIRD: Turn for the worse again, and started tasting bitter,
with a hint of burned coffee almost.
BURN: Canoed a bit, but evened out fairly well.
ASH: Mottled grey *very* flakey ash. Not enjoyable to
have ash floating all over.
SMOKE: Lots of smoke, but it wasn't all that tasty except for
the middle part of the stick.
STRENGTH: Pretty mild.
FLAVOUR: Grass and straw, what little of it was good.
FINISH: Metallic aftertaste, which in good Texas tradition, I
got rid of with root beer and jalapeno potato chips.
SMOKE_TIME: 40 minutes
IMPRESSION: I left more than two inches unsmoked on this stick,
and wasn't very impressed. Could have been a bad
stick of course, but I probably won't buy any to
give another try.
RATING: 4 out of a possible TEN wooden matchsticks.
COMMENTS: If the Por Larranga is a good example of how a light
colored wrapper can taste, this was definitely a poor
example of the same.
PICTURES: http://tinyurl.com/h24tq -&- http://tinyurl.com/e9vtr

[[OT] Loki]

I really enjoyed the Royal Jamaica Parklane that I smoked. I don't know if the shape makes that much of a difference or not. I'm sorry that you had a bad smoke