Padilla Miami (8/11)
Strength: Full
Wrapper: Nicaragua (Cuban Corojo)
Binder: Nicaragua (Cuban Criollo
Filler: Nicaragua (Blend of Corojo & Criollo)
Style: Torpedo
Draw: Real Good
Flavor: Spice, Mild Spice, Coffee Spice, Little Caramel Leather
Review: It’s a Friday night and it’s a good night, but cold. The weekends coming up, why not start it right with a good smoke? Tonight’s special is a Padilla Miami (8/11).
In my opinion, the Padilla Miami is not much to look at. The band is nice and that’s about it. The wrapper is not beautiful like a Carlos Toraño Signature or the Padron Maduro …. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t be making comparisons, but c’mon these type of things matter to me. Maybe not to the majority of cigar smokers, but to a guy like me, it does. Whether it’s a Cameroon wrapper, Connecticut Wrapper or a Corojo Wrapper, it should make my mouth water. You know what im talking about, the type of feeling you get when your watching Emril or better yet Rachel Ray cook on the food network. There was no “BAM !” and it was missing plenty of “E.V.O.O”.
Lets talk about the toast up. It was fantastic! When your toasting the foot of the cigar you will get hit with some sweet aroma. I got some nice honey, cinnamon and a soft peppery smell. Anytime I smell an aroma like this, it gets me excited. Especially if its followed by tons of smoke, which it was.
The 1st puffs of the smoke is full of spice and that to me is a big “UH OH”. And I think you know why …. (I don’t want to bring his name up just yet). There’s so much spice in the beginning of this smoke. If theres any other flavors i cant pick them up because its so spicy. I like spice, but not like this, I like little bits of it. Puffing away towards the 2nd part of the smoke, the overpowering spice becomes a little more mild, but there’s still plenty of it. Once in awhile, you get hit with coffee espresso notes, but guess what? …. Yup, it has spice on it. It feels like they accidentally put 2 Tablespoons of spice when they were only suppose to put 1 Teaspoon.
I was getting ready to put this out, because I hate cigars like this, but I decided to smoke a little more. The 3rd part of this smoke was really interesting to me, in a weird “I hate you” kind of a way. Let me explain …. The 3rd part of the cigar is smooth caramel and leather, but how can this be? Either the spice completely went away or my palate is numb from it. There was nothing but smooth caramely leather for a good couple of puffs, but then it came back …. The spice that is. I couldn’t take anymore so I put it out.
The name I didn’t want to mention earlier was the famous and most hated person in the world “The Evil Spice Monkey”. He was definitely here tonight and he was being a pain in the ass like he always is. This cigar is way to one dimensional for me. From start to finish all you get is spice and I hate that. The draw was really good and the ash was very flaky, but strong. The burn was fine too. The construction of this cigar was top notch, but that wasn’t the problem.
Final Notes: If you’re a spicy cigar smoker, you’ll love this cigar because you’ll get hit with every spice you can think of. However, I don’t recommend this cigar and I don’t plan to smoke another one and im definitely not excited about anything else from Padilla. I know im going to get lots of hate mail from this review because there’s tons of people who rave and hype this cigar up, but tonight there’s nothing to hype about.
Rating: 2.9/5 - “Ok”
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