DAVID HELLARD PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Home
  • ETSY STORE
  • Prints
  • Galleries
    • Digital Art
    • Astro
    • Landscapes
    • Waterscapes
    • Abstract >
      • Sand Angels
    • Animals
    • Travel >
      • Santa Monica Pier >
        • Venus Prestige
        • High Kishi
        • Eager Orphans
      • Japan
      • Hong Kong >
        • Temple Dress
      • United States
    • Doorways
    • Blurred Figures
  • Contact
  • Inspiration

Arturo Fuente Hemmingway Bestseller

2/10/2014

1 Comment

 
Arturo Fuente HemmingwayA Fuente Hemmingway Bestseller
With so many people raving about this cigar online I went ahead and got a 5 pack back in mid-December and promptly forgot about them.

While I was reorganizing and re-taking inventory on my collection after the Coolerdorazilla build, I came across them again and decided the time was right!

Overall, I thought this was a cigar full of potential, but either in need of more rest or maybe just not the cigar for me.

I must say this is a good looking stick which needs clipped at both ends - that's something different.

The pre-light taste was salty-leather.

Smoking this was an exercise in patience. The cigar is VERY temperature sensitive and more than one puff per minute results in a mouthful of black pepper and leather. With rest there are very nice notes of creamy expresso. Quite pleasant in fact.  Very savory. I dont know, maybe I was just in an impatient mood, but I really did get tired of having every other puff be so peppery. Maybe my clipping was too generous and this burned too hot. I dont know.

This cigar was also pretty strong. Id say 4.4 out of 5 in terms of strength, at least for me.


The burn was excellent and not once did I need to retouch the cigar. Perfect burn I would even say.

I'm going to let the remaining four brothers sit for at least another month or two before trying again. The one I had today just seemed to be a little untamed yet.

I think it's definitely a cigar worth trying, but not boxworthy for me...yet.

I give this a 3.2 out of 5, with the note that I will revisit this score at a later date. I must say I was strongly tempted to give this a lower score, but the hints of tastiness convinced me to take it easy on this for now...

A Fuente Hemmingway Bestseller
The closed ends are something you dont see in every cigar. You know, I've often wondered what a handwriting analyst would say if he/she ever tried to decipher my chicken scratches...
1 Comment

    Cigar Reviews, Recalibrated

    Whats this?

    I decided to archive my own reviews online as I find 90% of all cigar reviews to be as useful as a bottle of Jack at a Mormon wedding.

    I smoke to enjoy the cigar, not to appease a nicotine monkey. I smoke 3-4 cigars a week and usually only one a day. So, if you are like me, maybe you'll get something out of this page.

    Archives

    January 2015
    February 2014
    January 2014

    Categories

    All
    2+ Star
    3+ Star
    4+ Star
    Alec Bradley
    Arturo Fuente
    Black Gothic
    Brandy
    Bugatti
    Canoeing
    CAO
    Cigar
    Cigar Storage
    Coolerdor
    Diesel
    Diesel Unholy Cocktail
    Don Chuchu
    Flor De Las Antillas
    Hemmingway
    Humidity
    Humidor
    Hygrometer
    Kitty Litter
    Man O War
    Maxx
    My Father
    Padron
    Padron 1926
    Padron 1926 #9
    Perdomo
    Perdomo Bugatti
    Review
    Ruination
    Storage
    Temperature Resistance
    Thompson
    Unholy Cocktail

    RSS Feed

David Hellard Photography

Higher resolution versions of these photos are available upon request

Home
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • ETSY STORE
  • Prints
  • Galleries
    • Digital Art
    • Astro
    • Landscapes
    • Waterscapes
    • Abstract >
      • Sand Angels
    • Animals
    • Travel >
      • Santa Monica Pier >
        • Venus Prestige
        • High Kishi
        • Eager Orphans
      • Japan
      • Hong Kong >
        • Temple Dress
      • United States
    • Doorways
    • Blurred Figures
  • Contact
  • Inspiration