Cuaba Salomones OEB FEB 06

[BlackFriar]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

You should send Habanos a bill for the therapy you're gonna need for smoking that dog rocket!

[Colt45]

:lol2:

[SmokinAl]

That's the reason you get paid the big bucks...

[CIGARHead]

Love the brutal honesty mate!...Funny enough, I smoked a Cuaba Sal a week or so ago that was amazing. Orange peel, medium bodied and it had a sweet honey tea flavor that stayed with it till the nub....not to rub it in or anything;-)

[Sandman]

Awesome review! Interesting though, as I have a box from 05 that smokes very nicely, with great flavor. Yours sounds like a complete disaster.

[Guest rob]

I love honest reviews like this... your reputation is solid for this very reason!

[Alberto_Magnus]

» I love honest reviews like this... your reputation is solid for this very

» reason!

I've heard heaven and hell regarding this module, bit like the Lancero by Cohiba.

Honestly, I've also often heard of the exploding wrapper: an inherent malconstruction of this cigar?

I've smoked only one so far. It was a bit uninteresting because of lack of flavour complexity, but I'll definitely try the other ones resting in my humy.

Many experienced cigar smokers I respect and admire love this module, so it may have some nice surprises.

[winelover]

I had a distinguidos a year ago that pretty much sums up your flavour profile. I wondered whether they put in a ligero at all. It was like smoking staw or hay. Just a waste of time.

Then again, I've had a really good distinguidos once.

The larger vitola cuabas have got to be amongst the most hit and miss cigars in existence. My impression though, is that they are mainly 'miss'.

[Taino]

Hey Rob would you trade them for a bunch of Caciques or El Credito?

[El Presidente]

» Many experienced cigar smokers I respect and admire love this module, so

» it may have some nice surprises.

Alberto I also have good friends who absolutely adore the Cuaba Salomones. Stefan is one, the only man I know who has had dinner with Fidel. His cigar of choice is the Cuaba Salomones.

[Spartan]

Great review Rob!

Sitting down with a cup of coffee and reading your reviews has become a pastime for me ;-) I applaud you for telling it like it is...fantastic stuff. :-D

[kjellfrick]

Damn, Rob, you sure write a mean review!

I'll smoke my first from a DIC05 box tonight, just to make sure you will not have suffered alone, and I hope that it's not as insipid as the Distuingidos I have.

Stefan loves them? My countryman Stefan? If I don't like mine I'll send them on to him!

Edit to add: Smoked one and I generally agree with you Rob; too weak in taste to generate any real interest. Not bad tasting, just not tasting. Mine didn't explode though...I was kinda hoping it would for a while there!

[PSU OpusX]

Crap! One of my favorite smokes. I have some sitting in the humidor and hopefully they're good. However, the last few Cuabas that you have smoked Rob looks like they haven't been good. Cross my fingers....

[Van55]

I missed this review back when it Rob first posted it.

I've smoked only one Cuaba Salomone and found it to be quite interesting and pleasant. I was expecting much less that I got. I thought it was a solid three smokering cigar, so I invested in a fiver of Diademas hoping to get as good an experience.

But I guess I should know by now that Rob doesn't like any cigar that doesn't smack the daylights out of his palate as he smokes it. :-D

[El Presidente]

» But I guess I should know by now that Rob doesn't like any cigar that

» doesn't smack the daylights out of his palate as he smokes it. :-D

Low blow Van

I just believe that if you are a 2 hour monolith then you had better bring something to the table beside boredom ;-)

[Ken Gargett]

personally, i think that these are the nicest things i have ever heard about these appalling rotting heaps of vegetal slime. rob is fully aware of my view of these (not that it stopped him selling me some years ago). they are compost. they are worse than compost. the most overrated, waste of time on the planet. i would rather smoke mud wrapped in mike tyson's used jocks.

that said, there is no way i would ever swap my last remaining few. they are saved for those scungy mates who front up once a year and expect to be given fabulous cigars and then bugger off and are never heard from again (one such 'mate' absolutely loved a fake esplendido i gave him). i give them one of these bits of molded dog dung and they never bother me again.

[laficion]

Hi El Prez,

A few years back, with our cigar club, we went to

Andorra to fill up our humidors and I got myself a box

of 10 Cuaba salomones that I kept for over a year and a half.

Other members smoked them a few weeks later and

they told me that they were sorry they bought a box.

Two years later I had the same persons try one of

mine and they found them to be quit good. I think this

cigar needs a lot of age.:-(

Cheers

[broozer]

these are not cigars that can be smoked young. i have 9 left from '04 and i'm not even sure i should light one of those up yet..........but maybe i will tonight after dinner (home made pizza).

bruce

[demiurgic]

LOL

You're reviews impress me to NO end Rob ;-)

Kudos and keep up the straight up reviews~!

[El Presidente]

Cuaba Salomones OEB FEB 06

Looks a million dollars. Smoked like a 5 cent cigar. I have had Cuban Peso cigars with more substance. Wrapper, draw and construction were all fine...no excuses. It was without doubt the lightest bodied Cuba cigar I have ever tasted. It started with nothing and until the final few inches it maintained a level of insipid blandness that I did not think possible. This cigar is an embarrassment.

Here are my notes...I won't do a full review...just post a few photo's to prove that I hung in there and smoked this piece of puro crap.

I won't rate it either....it doesn't rate.