The sueno is a 5.25x54 parejo. I don't often smoke off the truck, but this time I wanted to get a review in. The first one out of the box had a magnificent wrapper, dark brown with darker mottling, toothy, and veinless. the thing was very well rolled. smelled great, strong tobacco and it does, oddly enough, smell like cedar. The "immersion" process that they talk about obviously involves aging the cigars packed in cedar planing chips, as there were a few chips scattered in the box that must have stuck to the cello as they were packed. They were packaged in a 24 count wheel with a saddle wrap. The new band is going with the new trend of complicated band art with lots of gloss and metal foil, but no, it's not as garish as it sounds. it's actually pretty tasteful, and except for the colors, pretty traditional.
The first out of the box was far more attractive than the second one that was used for the photographs. I cut it, lit it, and sat down with a pint of lemonade. It let loose billowing clouds of heavy, chewy smoke, and right from the front, it was a spicy bomb. Cedar, wood, black pepper, and a nice earthiness. It wasn't a harsh smoke, not like some of the nose hair incinerators I've had, but it came across as a potent smoke. It burned straight and clean, with a fine gray ash. It went through several changes in temperament as I smoked; in about a half inch a lot of the spiciness was gone. I knocked off an inch or so of ash and purged, and the smoke leaned back into cedar and earthy notes. I opened a bottle of pale ale, and the two really complemented each other.
All things considered, these sell for about $3 most places, and I think that they're a really fine smoke at those prices. I don't see it as being typical for most of the hoyo or punch line, but that's something everyone will have to decide for themselves. It has the broadleaf binder, and I wonder, will it someday come out in a broadleaf wrapper, like the excalibur? That ought to add some real interest to it.