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04-14-2018, 08:45 AM | #1 |
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Kentucky Fire Cured Genuine Muwat
As far as I know, this is a Drew Estate product. I recently made a nice package deal and now have a double fist full of these cigars. When I was smoking pipes, I greatly enjoyed blends with Kentucky fire cured tobacco. I wondered how it would translate to cigars.
This particular cigar was a 6 x 52 Toro. The wrapper looks to be broadleaf. It is dark, toothy and durable. The cigar was cello wrapped. I had been warned in the past not to store these nude as the tobacco aroma is quite strong. I can now testify that the aroma is indeed strong! Upon taking a good whiff of the foot, I immediately thought: Latakia! It smelled like a strong English pipe tobacco. I lit the foot with a match and was rewarded by copious amounts of thick smoke. Letting the smoke roll into my lose I got a definite campfire smell typical of latakia tobacco. But I didn't otherwise taste it much. The cigar flavor was rich, pleasant and strong. The burn was straight and the ash was dark and pebbly. The flavor was consistent through the whole smoke. the strength however increased considerably. It's a powerful smoke! I wouldn't want to smoke these all the time. But I like the cigar and will be happy to smoke more on an occasional basis. I'm giving this one an 8 of 10. There's nothing else like this. Epilogue: Yep, Drew Estate. CI says the wrapper is a Mexican San Andres Maduro. The filler is Kentucky and Virgina Fire cured tobacco with Nicaraguan and Brazilian mata fino mixed in. The size is called Just a Friend. |
04-17-2018, 09:20 AM | #2 |
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Hey Tim!
These are odd birds for me,for sure. The aroma you mentioned is indeed pervasive. I tried twice to smoke a Fire Cured and simply could not get through it. That said there is a decent sized following for these cigars. I've talked to several retailers, who each say they are big sellers. Many are what might be called transition smokers. People who are graduating from Black and Milds and/or flavored smokes into real cigars. That was what others had opined anyway. The ones I had tried were so overpowering with the camp smoke odor that I could not get to the tobacco flavors you found. Drew Estate has long offered unique profiles in taste and marketing. If I'm honest, I was vocally against the first offerings from DE. (Pimp Sticks, Extra Ordinary Larry, Nasty, et al) But, they have since diversified, expanded and developed several known and respected cigar brands like Liga Privada, Undercrown and most recently Florida Sun Grown cigars. So, there's likely something somewhere, in that very broad line, that would work for a wide swath of cigar smokers, wherever they are on the smoking spectrum. To paraphrase: Different smokes for different folks. Thanks for the review! Cheers!
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04-17-2018, 10:07 AM | #3 |
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I don't like the flavored stuff either. That's not really what this is. They are essentially taking a tobacco processed like pipe tobacco and making a cigar. The pipe smokers who dig the English blends should go for these.
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I bought a package of DE brands a few years back, and good god, I was just disappointed by all of them. The KFC was wonderful until I lit it, the tobacco aroma was just stunning. Then it went away as soon as I started. All the way through that fourteen cigar pack, there was nothing at all that stood out from anything else.
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04-18-2018, 12:44 PM | #6 |
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I'm not surprised at the strong opinions. It's that type of cigar. You either like it or hate it.
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05-04-2018, 09:02 AM | #7 |
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Sounds to me like something that might be better in a narrower ring gauge somewhere in the 42 - 45 range?
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