Camacho SLR Maduro Review
5/24/2014
Cigar: Camacho SLR Maduro
Size: Rothschild, 4.5"x50
MSRP: $7.50
Strength: Medium-Full
Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro
Origin: Honduras
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Prelight: The maduro wrapper is dark, oily and toothy. There are a few small veins, but nothing to cause concern. The aroma of the wrapper is purely floral, as well as the aroma of the foot. It seems to have a perfect draw after clipping the cap. There is a subtle woodiness to the cold draw.
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1/3: Wood and spices start off this cigar, and it seems like every other pull I get a note of chocolate. As the first third progresses, a dusty floral taste appears and the other flavors diminish. Towards the end of the first third, even the floral taste mellows and I am getting almost no flavors, and the draw has loosened immensely. I drop the ash and notice the cigar has tunneled. I touch up the wrapper.
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2/3: After the touch up, the draw has improved, the flavors have come back and the smoke output increases. Now the flavors are mainly wood and the aforementioned dusty floral taste. The woody flavor amps up and overpowers all other flavors by the mid-way point and I notice I am getting some canoeing. The dodgy chocolate flavor starts to ebb and flow again. I touch up again to give the lagging side a fighting chance.
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3/3: The final third maintains the woody profile, and adds some hay, and spices return as well. The burn stays straight (finally) for the final third.
Overall: Not a bad cigar, but not a great cigar either. I was not impressed with the burn and the flavors were a bit ho-hum. On an interesting note, I thought this was a Corojo Maduro while I smoked it; that’s what I ordered from CBid. After trying to research the strength, I notice that my pictures are that of the SLR. Would I buy this cigar again (now knowing what it is)? Nah.
