Casa Fuente Torp Should Stay in Vegas…
Posted By Elvis on November 5, 2009
I love the online cigar community for the most part, except for some of the chat boards who have made smoking cigars into a cult with about a million unwritten rules and turned it into some sick “greather than thou” brotherhood of twits. The review and cigar news websites are fair and very informative as to what is new in the cigar world we all live in. But guys….we need to all just agree to some point on which cigars are the top tier sticks out there and let them be. I read yet another Top Ten list recently that put names like Opus X and Padron’64 and Rocky’s Decade on there and I constantly read reviews of these same cigars. Reviewing cigars should be like Fantasy Footballs “Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em” report every week. There’s no need to say that Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and Adrian Petersen are “starts of the week”. No shit Sherlock. I would questions someone’s IQ if they wanted to bench those players for the week. We all know the elite cigars out there and they always score a 5 out of 5, so stop wasting our time. Review stuff that the average guy can actually get his hands on and smoke on a somewhat regular basis if he chooses. The one exception I think would be to inform us all if one of these ballyhooed cigars actually sucks. I wouldn’t have minded a warning on something like the Stradavarious that came out last year and ran a cool $50 per stick here in Minnesota.
All that being said, I lit up one of these sticks tonight…the Casa Fuente Torpedo, that a friend graciously brought back for me and a couple of buddies from a March trip to Vegas. You know this cigar…you can only buy them in the Casa Fuente shop at Caesar’s Palace. A month ago my other brothers of the leaf lit up theirs to celebrate the Twins making the playoffs, but mine was at home in its humidor hopefully recovering from the trip in an airplane and through the streets of the Strip. When the guys lit theirs up, the damn things unraveled horribly and they really couldn’t enjoy them. A month later, I had the same problem.
The pre-light aroma was sweet…something between a nice cedar smell and caramel. Or is it carmel…never could tell the difference between them. The look of the cigar is worthy of the name. It sports a nice darker, rich looking reddish wrapper adorned by a very fancy band and an orange foot silken band. The cigar is not packed very heavy at all.
This is by all accounts a very mild cigar void of any spice or pepper. I get a soft leathery taste but it was hard to pick out anything worth mentioning. And then the wrapper starting coming off which always gives a cigar an ashy kind of taste as the unraveling seams take fire to them. This stick was in my newly humidified humidor which has been stuck at a week at around 80% preparing for the harsh Minnesota winter, so I know it wasn’t dried out. And I smoked it indoors in my smoking lounge that is heated, so the night air didn’t attack it or anything. This was also my first cigar of the night, so my tastebuds weren’t already destroyed for the evening by something stronger.
I have no doubt that when you take at seat in Vegas with this cigar and an expensive cocktail at the glorious Casa de Fuente shop this cigar would rate much higher. Sometimes a person’s mood and expectation have a lot to do with the cigar’s flavor…it’s quite often the experience or the company you’re with that gives a cigar a memorable taste in your smoke filled head. But 6 months removed from the confines of Vegas and this cigar seemed like nothing special and certainly not worth the $25+ pricetag I’m sure my buddy coughed up to get this all the way back to Vikings land for me. If what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, I would also add that one should smoke in Vegas what they buy there. Save this one for your visit and enjoy it in the desert.
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