Padron 5000 Maduro

[Da Klugs]

So I forget my Hallie at home while rushing to make the plane on our golf trip this past weekend. Hit the exciting metropolis of Evansville, IN with 0 Cigars.

Fortunately my bus partner has about 10 sticks that get us through the evenings but the course needs cigars. They have a display at the bar and decide ... any port in a storm. In this case Padron 5000 Maduros.

Rough looking but well made cigars. Smell very young/barnyard hay like prelight alomost like they were undercured which is wierd for a Maduro. Burned well and put out good volumes of smoke. Flavors were OK but the cigar is a little one dimensional/harsh in that it lacks a smoothness and had a very short finish.

The experience was difficult due to constantly forgetting what I was smoking and nasal exhaling to a biting bitter end. Play a hole, get into it forget and ... blam!

I think after a while things numbed up and it got less nasty. Had a nice mouth flavor and because of the pace of things lasted on average about an hour and a half.

Smoked 6 of them T-S. Not a bad smoke if you remember not to fully exhale them through your nose. Got to the point where 25% nose or so was actually pleasant. Not a complex set of flavors but decent richness and body that peeked through occasionally.

Are they 50% as good as the annies and 24th's? Probably if you are into that kind of mathmatical price/flavor comparision. For me, if they were both available I wouldn't buy and smoke these, but that's not fair as they should be compared to cigars priced similarly. Better than the CAO Vinatage Cameroon that I smoked 4 of at the exact same price.