Camacho 10th Anniversary
Posted By ironmeden on April 12, 2008
With the onslaught of warmer weather coming this way, I’ve been trying to ramp up my cigar smoking. It’s like a training camp for football players, I have to work up tolerance to smoke more cigars in a week. I’m having to play catch up in the Spring with all the cigars I’ve purchased over the Winter that I couldn’t get to. My humidors are at max capacity coming into the Spring season. It’s time to make some room, but not today.
I went out to Stogies on Grand in St. Paul. It was a packed Friday evening with the Minnesota Wild playing in the NHL Playoffs. I wanted again to try something new and found it with the recent release of Camacho and their 10th Anniversary line.
The make up of this cigar is all Corojo all the time! Wrapper, Binder and Filler are all Corojo tobacco and the sticks are boxed press. 
The recent releases by Camacho the packaging has been glorious. The Triple Maduro, the Camacho Diploma which is also made of all Corojo, but is a more full bodied taste. I guess naming it Triple Corojo doesn’t have the same marketing force as Triple Maduro does.
The Diploma and 10th Anniversary have slightly similar looks in regards to the bands. The 10th Anniversary wrapper has a duller look to it, where as in my opinion The Diploma has a oily sheen to the wrapper.
The bands are gold and black with a sophisticated look. The quality of the bands accent the medium brown colored wrapper.
I chose to smoke the 60/6 stick which is a rectangle in shape. The feel of the cigar is heavy, but if you look at the foot of the cigar, the tobacco is not tightly wrapped. I’ve noticed a few Camacho lines don’t have that tightly packed look.
I removed the bottom band and I’m pretty careful when I remove bands so I don’t damage any part of the wrapper. The glue on the band was tight and when I removed the band it took some of the wrapper with it. Quite irritated with the tearing of the wrapper.
I light up the cigar and that tastes are lighter then I would expect from a Camacho. It has a light leather flavors. The burn wasn’t even at the start of the smoke. I had to relight a few times to get it even. This burn issue continued through to the middle of the cigar where it finally evened out.
The feel of the cigar in my fingers were a little odd. Being a rectangle cigar, I couldn’t really get a comfortable feel in my fingers. I’m a big box press fan, but this size was a little strange. Actually smoking it was easy, no issues there, nor with the draw. With the loose packing of the tobacco, the draw is normal.
Now as I got to 2nd band, again I ran into the same issue with too much glue on the band and when I removed the band some of the wrapper came with it. With this part of the wrapper coming off it really hurt the rest of the smoking experience now that I was fighting with the wrapper coming apart.
The flavors overall were good, it had the leather flavor throughout and it never changed until towards the end when I started to get some spicy notes. It never reached any full flavor tones, even through its advertised as a medium to full flavor.
Price wise it is a little spendy at about $17 a stick. My price range to purchase this cigar again would be about $12. I would probably go for one of the smaller sticks next time.
On our new VelvetCigar Rating Scale this would rate a 3 Cloth Seats. Below is our scale.
1: Wooden lawn chair
2: Plastic covering on the old davenport just like Grandma’s house!
3: Cloth seats
4: Corinthian Leather
5. Crushed Velvet Cushion
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