Review - Thompsons Empressario - 0 - Robusto

[Texan_To_The_End]

DATE: 2006/06/21
REVIEWER: Timothy "Texan_To_The_End" Piper
CIGAR: Thompson's Empressario
SIZE: 5.0 X 50
ORIGIN: Dominican
WRAPPER: Connecticut
BINDER: N/A
FILLER: N/A
SHAPE: Robusto
AGE: Unknown. In my humidor since 2006/06/06
VENDOR: Gifted by RHarris. (Thanks again!)
PRICE: Current retail price is US $1.25 each.

AMBIENCE: 10:30AM Wednesday. Hot sunny and rather humid.

BEVERAGE: Ice water.

APPEARANCE: Light colored thick wrapper. Very light-weight cigar with a spongy feel to it.

PRE_LIGHT: No detectable tastes or odors.

DRAW: Much too loose of a draw for my taste.

FIRST_THIRD: Surprised by a pleasant creamy taste which was a little bit grassy. This went away after smoking about 3/4 inch, and was replaced by the sort of bland flavor I associate with machine-rolled sticks. It wasn't actively bad, but not really good either.

SECOND_THIRD: Smoke began to get a bit harsh, which was odd for such a mild stick. After a few more puffs this big gout of smoke came from it, accompanied by a terrible smell. It was a piece of red plastic! At this point the taste of the cigar was ruined by the burning plastic and I set it down.

FINAL_THIRD: Didn't get this far. <G>

BURN: Canoed a tiny bit, but acceptable until the plastic burn.

ASH: Light grey very flakey ash.

SMOKE: Medium volume of pretty bland smoke.

STRENGTH: Mild.

FLAVOUR: None (except burning plastic)

FINISH: None (except burning plastic). Had to go brush my teeth...

SMOKE_TIME: 20 minutes until the melt-down.

IMPRESSION: At first it seemed to try being a cigar, but the completely unacceptable carelessness of having a piece of plastic in a cigar obviously ruined it for me.

RATING: 0 out of a possible TEN wooden matchsticks.

COMMENTS: If it would not have had the plastic in it, I'd have given it a two, as it was at least trying to be as good as a Cohiba Red Dot. <G>

PICTURES: http://tinyurl.com/f9wj6

[TU09]

Thanks for taking a hit and letting us know just how good they really are.

[68TriShield]

Drawing through that plastic might have messed up the taste ...Dave

[Texan_To_The_End]

Originally Posted by dlevine1

Drawing through that plastic might have messed up the taste ...Dave

True... But it wouldn't have messed it up as much as actually burning the plastic did...

[ghostrider]

No pics of the burnt plastic hanging out the end?