Cigar Review: My Father Lancero

My Father

I decided to do a little impromptu review tonight while chatting with some cigar bloggers on stickam. It’s amazing how the love of a good smoke can bring people from across the USA together. Joining me tonight was Justin from lasvegASHtv.com, Tom from TomsCigars, Stew from The World According to Stew, Mike aka Agent 6 from TheCigarSpy as well as some StogieReview regulars. We chatted about cigars, music, and general nonsense as I smoked my My Father Lancero.

Cigar: My Father #4
Origin: Nicaragua
Size: 7.5 x 38 (Lancero)
Wrapper: Nicaragua
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua

Appearance & Construction (20/20): The one thing that struck me odd about this cigar is no matter how hard I looked I could not find the roll lines. There were no seams on this cigar other than at the triple cap. I actually spent 15 minutes looking for the seams and I was totally dumbfounded. The cigar had some veins but nothing out of the ordinary and the oils were plentiful. The cigar had a small pigtail at the cap as well which was a nice touch, and for those that care about the band when these first came out the pink left me undecided but the smaller size on the lancero it looked pleasing to the eye.

Flavor & Notes (23/30): Compared to the #2 which I reviewed earlier in the year, this cigar was short on flavor. The smoke was very mild and despite offering mocha on the pre-light it was almost non existent for the duration of the smoke. The 1st third offered some slight notes of sweet spice. In the 2nd third it was more defined but still short. The notes of caramel were joined by some pepper, and we closed out the cigar with some pepper with a trace of mocha and cinnamon that disappeared rather quickly.

Burn/Ash/Draw (23/25): I rarely smoke in the house, so I had the fan on exhaust in my room. The burn line was slightly jagged but I will attribute that to the fan. It was never out of hand, but it was noticeable enough to be slightly annoying. The ash was full of ridges and a tad flaky but it held on rather well considering the gauge of the smoke. The burn was a bit too lose which shocked me considering it was 7.5 inches long.

Overall (18/25): I was really disappointed from this smoke as I expected more in terms of flavor and strength. I am very glad this was not my first venture into the stick as it could of been a huge turnoff to the brand. Add into the equation I am not a huge fan of lancero smokes. Thankfully I had some good company while smoking this cigar and some great tunes from knac.com

Rating: 84
Price: 9.00

Review: ITC 10th Anniversary

Greetings from beautiful Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I decided to get away for a few days and enjoy life. So I currently sit on a balcony overlooking the water and I decided to get one more review up since I will not have a chance to write for a few days while I do the tourist thing. On the agenda is drinking, eating, partying, and smoking. This review comes upon request of Matthew over at Cigar Bar.

The Skinny:

Cigar: ITC !0th Anniversary by Rocky Patel
Origin: Nicaragua
Size: Toro  6.5 x 52
Wrapper: Cuban Seed Nicaraguan Grown Corojo
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua (Condega, Jalapa & Esteli)

Pre-Light: If you click on the picture to the left, you will notice something I have never seen before near the ash. This cigar appears to have received a patch job because of a split. When I saw this I was pretty pissed of that quality control would let this go through. The scent of the wrapper was Cedar & Earth, while the foot was Cedar & Pepper. The wrapper despite being kept in my well mainted humidor looked a little dry.  This cigar is a pretty heavy cigar in terms of weight.  The prelight draw was sweet, kind of like chocolate or cocoa.

Smoke: Upon lighting this cigar I was quicky taken back but the strength of the cigar. It was a full bodied cigar from the get go that tried to work its way back to medium bodied and failed to do. The initial notes were pepper, cedar and other spices. This remaind for the first third of the cigar. The 2nd third introduced some coffee notes, that became more prevelent as I reached the final third. The final third of the cigar was pepper and earth as the coffee notes left in a hurry. One I got past the patch job, this cigar burned nice, with burn light that was straight. The ash was a little flaky, and a light grey in color.

Overall: I used to be a huge fan of Rocky Patel and still love a lot of the cigars they produce, but unfortunately nothing has topped the initial batch of Edge cigars that came in coffins of 100, without a label/band on them. In fact a lot of cigars of his cigars lately with the exception of the Summer Blend have been a dissapoint me to me, this smoke included.

My Local Price: 8.50
Rating: 86 (Out of 100)

When I return I will be doing a joint review/smoke off with The World According To Stew who sent me a Padilla in exchange for a Rocky Patel Summer that I sent him. So have a great weekend everybody see you next week!