Fake Cuaba Salomones

[El Presidente]

I can tell Ken that this Fake Cuaba Salomones astually had the best draw of any Salomones I have had

Unfortunately that is the only thing it had going for it.

• Barely any aroma at cold
  
• Awful thick dry wrapper.
  
• Plenty of smoke but the smoke it thin in body.
  
• Light bodied overall.
  
• Little to no aroma.
  
• chalky, dry hay/paper flavour throughought with some sugared milk which was its redeeming feature.
  
• Good burn.
  
• No complexity.
  

Overall a very poor cigar You can tell from the construction that there was little love to this fake which comprised I suspect a half leaf of Seco and the rest Volado. Tobacco origin is hard to pick but I suspect the floor of the factory

[ajgagnon]

I thought that was just the nature of the vitola?

Harsh marks for the wrapper... looks ok in the pics. I have Shorts whose wrappers are thick as bank notes. I've also had Party Salomones that taste a bit light for what I'd expect, given the immensity of the Salomon vitola. Can't figure out why this shape doesn't focus the flavours... how do I get on HSA's focus group for tasting these things?

On the subject of fakes, I've seen some Cuban fakes that had damn nice wrappers. Kinda broke my heart.

[laficion]

[*]Barely any aroma at cold

[*]Awful thick dry wrapper.

[*]Plenty of smoke but the smoke it thin in body.

[*]Light bodied overall.

[*]Little to no aroma.

[*]chalky, dry hay/paper flavour throughought with some sugared milk which was its redeeming feature.

[*]Good burn.

[*]No complexity.

Do you think that with such a description, they could possibly be PADRON disguised

as cubans ?