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Hi all, hope the Cigar World is spinning perfectly for you all at the minute, had this Lonsdale last night and thought it was best to write a review up, enjoy.
With a light claro coloured wrapper and smooth, slightly spongy pack this Lonsdale looks well made. It cut and lit well but I found it to be very snug on the draw so I had to cut past the shoulder cap unfortunately.
The draw flavours were of toasty, slightly nutty, sweet tobacco, not bad at all; the finish flavours were of spaghetti carbonara... "He's gone mad!" I hear you say, you might think that but the finish flavours were of spaghetti carbonara because that's what I'd had for dinner. There were absolutely no finish in sight, I could not tell I'd taken a draw after the initial draw flavours had gone. It was if the flavours were leaving my mouth with the smoke; I could almost see the strong Bolivar taste wandering off down the road with the smoke! This for me completely killed the cigar, I got no finish flavours until about 3/4 of the way down until I'd nearly finished when all of a sudden I had a point where I got a rush of that Bolivar taste I was expecting.
The construction appeared fine, with the ash dropping off in 7/8 inch chunks but the majority of the stick was terrible unfortunately. I can't split this up into 1st, 2nd and 3rd thirds as they all tasted the same, with this stick it's the "off" and "on" sections instead.
I think this was been one of the worst sticks I've tried, coming just below the RASS for draw resistance. Due to the horrible experience I have to give this a 3.9 out of 10 sadly.
It did pose two questions though: Is this what people call "plugged"? and could Habanos purposely roll cigars badly to put people off buying them? It really got me wondering as the Lonsdale is quite unpopular atm, maybe Habanos are trying to limit how many they make so they roll them so awfully they put people off buying them? Perhaps, it's just a thought anyway...
Thanks for reading and have a good week guys!
Cheers,
Matt
With a light claro coloured wrapper and smooth, slightly spongy pack this Lonsdale looks well made. It cut and lit well but I found it to be very snug on the draw so I had to cut past the shoulder cap unfortunately.
The draw flavours were of toasty, slightly nutty, sweet tobacco, not bad at all; the finish flavours were of spaghetti carbonara... "He's gone mad!" I hear you say, you might think that but the finish flavours were of spaghetti carbonara because that's what I'd had for dinner. There were absolutely no finish in sight, I could not tell I'd taken a draw after the initial draw flavours had gone. It was if the flavours were leaving my mouth with the smoke; I could almost see the strong Bolivar taste wandering off down the road with the smoke! This for me completely killed the cigar, I got no finish flavours until about 3/4 of the way down until I'd nearly finished when all of a sudden I had a point where I got a rush of that Bolivar taste I was expecting.
The construction appeared fine, with the ash dropping off in 7/8 inch chunks but the majority of the stick was terrible unfortunately. I can't split this up into 1st, 2nd and 3rd thirds as they all tasted the same, with this stick it's the "off" and "on" sections instead.
I think this was been one of the worst sticks I've tried, coming just below the RASS for draw resistance. Due to the horrible experience I have to give this a 3.9 out of 10 sadly.
It did pose two questions though: Is this what people call "plugged"? and could Habanos purposely roll cigars badly to put people off buying them? It really got me wondering as the Lonsdale is quite unpopular atm, maybe Habanos are trying to limit how many they make so they roll them so awfully they put people off buying them? Perhaps, it's just a thought anyway...
Thanks for reading and have a good week guys!
Cheers,
Matt
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