Author: Mr. Evening Draw
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Bury the Leaf I have a confession to make. A dangerous confession. A confession that may cause my membership card to be immediately revoked from the Brotherhood of Connecticut Skeptics. I liked this cigar. There. It’s out there. We’ll come back to that. First, you need to understand that Connecticut cigars and I have a…
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Bury the Leaf There are cigars that announce themselves. The kind that show up wearing a three-piece suit, kick open the boardroom door, and immediately start telling everybody why they’re the smartest person in the building. Then there are cigars like the La Aroma de Cuba Reserva. Quiet. Confident. Professional. The kind that never raises its voice because it doesn’t think it has to. Coming into this…
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Bury the Leaf I was intimidated by My Father. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it was the ornate packaging. Maybe it was the presentation. Maybe it was the reputation. Maybe it was simply the unknown. When you’re first getting into cigars, brands like Rocky Patel, Oliva, Gurkha, and CAO seem to be…
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Crowned Heads Juarez Willie Lee – Bury the Leaf There are cigars you review. Then there are cigars that spend the entire evening reviewing you. The Willie Lee turned out to be the second kind. By the time this smoke was over, I’d spent nearly two and a half hours trying to determine whether I…
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Trinidad Espiritu No. 1 – Bury the Leaf I broke one of my own rules for this cigar. Normally, a cigar arrives, gets logged, gets admired, and then gets sent to humidor detention for a proper acclimation period before I ever think about lighting it. That’s especially true when the poor thing has spent more…
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Bury The Leaf I think cigar media has a problem. Not a serious problem. Not a “call Congress and demand hearings” problem. But a problem nonetheless. Every review seems to be chasing the same thing. Limited releases. Rare releases. Annual releases. Ultra-premium releases. If a cigar isn’t wrapped in endangered moon dust and blessed by…
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Oliva Serie V Showdown – Lancero v Torpedo Some cigar reviews are about flavor. This one turned into a psychology experiment. The idea started after watching my buddy Mr. @LordoftheLancero over on Instagram spend enough time around skinny cigars that I finally decided to stop treating Lanceros like mythical woodland creatures only spoken about in…
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Rojas Bluebonnet – Bury the Leaf Spice, Earthspice, and the rise of Rojaspice. Some cigars try to impress you with elegance. Some try to overwhelm you with strength. Some cigars chase complexity so aggressively that halfway through the smoke you feel like the cigar is trying harder to impress you than you are trying to…
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Bariay 1492 Red – Bury the Leaf The Bariay 1492 Red Label Robusto feels like a boutique cigar built by people who genuinely care about tobacco texture, refinement, and restraint instead of simply trying to weaponize strength and call it “premium.” This was smooth. Consistently smooth. Not sweet enough to become gimmicky.Not spicy enough to…
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Brick House Natural Toro – Bury the Leaf The JC Newman Brick House Toro Natural spent the entire evening proving one very important point: Sometimes a cigar doesn’t need refinement, elegance, complexity, or a twelve-paragraph dissertation about fermentation techniques. Sometimes a cigar just needs to show up, punch you directly in the taste buds with…