VR Familiar '03

PigFish · April 22, 2009

What! Someone needs to bribe me to smoke a nice cigar. Boy do I wish this was real life!!!

The truth be told I have not smoked much lately. You see my wife, “Lady Piggy” up and broke her leg on 4/11. Now this time represents three major breaks in bones in 3 years with one minor one for good measure. I am pretty fed up with life in general as these past several months have not been good to me. I digress!

So Bwana wants reviews on VR’s… hmmmm! Well it just so happens that I bought a box of ’03 Familiars from him a while back and I have smoked several of them the past month. But in all fairness I chose a new subject for the review.

These are really beautiful cigars. You would never guess that some ’03 products had problems from smoking these cigars. These cigars are well crafted, nicely finished and worthy of the VR band, hand selected by our generous host, and company.

My subject today was next in line and an important next. You see I will be going back to the box today to finally dump it into a singles drawer to make room for a new fresh box. Death and rebirth… a wonderful thing! This cigar was a beautiful specimen; quite frankly, they all have been out of this box. Yes some have been better than others but that is the essence of Cuban cigars and of other living things.

My cigar had a nice medium light draw, no prelight flavors were outstanding but I was to be driving with this cigars so I made my notes on the fly. The cigar overall was somewhat monotonic but that does not say that she was without character, as her personality was abundant. She was not a lap-dancer but a ballerina, well versed in the classics. There was no room for exotic tastes here but the abundant notes of almond, hazel nut, clove and ginger were seen consistently in her performance. My taste buds danced along side her clumsily as I dodged the traffic and scratched for my camera.

From start to finish her performance was not exhausting, nor unusual or unique. She was a solid performer, perhaps not the caliber of top billing but making the grade and holding her own nonetheless.

This was a fine cigar, one I was happy to be Familiar! Thanks for reading. -Piggy

demiurgic · April 22, 2009

great review Piggy. Well written. Hope Lady Piggy and yourself fell better soon as the Spring turns to summer and life is breathed into all things, equally.

Aloha! Dem