Tutu
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I thought I'd keep it simple for once. Four leafs of Besuki filler, of which two are 2016 crop, and two are new 2017 crop. Both the binder and the wrapper are Indonesian grown Criollo, grown this year as well.
Pics of your sticks!!
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MarcL
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...just a couple more
Vanerpaddel
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They are still a little moist, but smokable.
This one are filled with 100% Semois (even the wrapper)
This one are filled with 100% Semois (even the wrapper)
The aroma of your cigar seems to attract black bears.
Bob
Bob
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ChinaVoodoo
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For filler, I used 1 Dominican seco, 2 corojo seco, 1 Paraguay flojo, 1 Brazilian Mata Fina. I bound it with a full leaf of the Dominican Binder, and wrapped it with a half leaf of the same. I used the nice free sample of cigar glue which came with my last WLT shipment.
I would definitely smoke that.
Bob
Bob
MarcL
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..one more 54x6.2
Okay CV, I'll bet your cigar isn't 25 feet long.
Bob
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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I won't take that bet because I know you're right.
ChinaVoodoo
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My wife and I were in our old neighborhood tonight. There's a new convenience store that is advertising cigars. We ventured in, and his selection was crap. The best he had was Mehari, but he didn't sell singles, so I bought a couple little cigarillos I hadn't heard of, not because I wanted them, but, you know, just to support the guy. Well, the wife has been putting my garage door opener in a different spot in my car. Drives me nuts. She couldn't find it, and she broke my cigarillos. So I decided to take my Pergeu out of the kiln, it's been a month, and rewrap them together into one big long cigarillo.
ChinaVoodoo
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First puro with the Pergeu. It actually tastes like a cigar. Weird.
OldDinosaurWesH sent me some of his Bolivia Criollo Black (aka Bolivia Criollo Dark), which he grew in 2017, and kilned. The leaf is a lovely color. The filler leaves could also have been used for wrapper--they were that nice. For a binder, I used a WLT Besuki double binder. I went crazy, and used the mold and glue (I think that's what that dust-covered little bag of beige powder was) and a triple cap. [Of course, the beautiful two-stick mold is from Rainmax, and available on WLT.]
Since I usually roll a cigar to smoke immediately, most of the time I don't bother to create a beautiful cap, only to turn around and clip it off. So, for guest leaf, this was an exception.
Thanks, Wes.
Bob
OldDinosaurWesH
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Very nice looking stogie. I hope it burns well for you.
Wes H.
Wes H.
greenmonster714
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Very nice leaf Wes. Bob, you roll a fine cigar. Nice job.
Thank you both for the kind comments. Sometimes it's fun to roll a tiny cigar (i.e. a corona).
Bob
Bob
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I fired up my Bolivia Criollo corona, made with leaf from OldDinosaurWesH. My immediate impression was that his Bolivian leaf indeed contains the same unidentified terpene as my own. It was subdued, but there--most noticeable during nasal exhale. I could smoke a box of these. The aroma was soft and complex, with a smooth taste. This was a delicious cigar. I believe these were lower leaves. And, as stated in the previous post, the only non-Bolivia leaf was the Besuki double binder.
The burn was good, but not great. That is to say, if I had purchased this cigar from a tobacconist, the quality of the burn would have never entered my mind.
Verdict: a damn good cigar leaf. If Wes' upper leaf is as stingy on the terpenes as the leaf he sent me, then I see many excellent stogies in his future.
One curiosity, which I don't recall having ever seen before, is that the intact trichomes (leaf hairs) are visible on the surface of the kilned leaf. As the burn margin of the wrapper advances, waves of tiny trichomes are charred.
Maybe they are present on all cigars, and I just haven't noticed.
Bob
I fired up my Bolivia Criollo corona, made with leaf from OldDinosaurWesH. My immediate impression was that his Bolivian leaf indeed contains the same unidentified terpene as my own. It was subdued, but there--most noticeable during nasal exhale. I could smoke a box of these. The aroma was soft and complex, with a smooth taste. This was a delicious cigar. I believe these were lower leaves. And, as stated in the previous post, the only non-Bolivia leaf was the Besuki double binder.
The burn was good, but not great. That is to say, if I had purchased this cigar from a tobacconist, the quality of the burn would have never entered my mind.
Verdict: a damn good cigar leaf. If Wes' upper leaf is as stingy on the terpenes as the leaf he sent me, then I see many excellent stogies in his future.
One curiosity, which I don't recall having ever seen before, is that the intact trichomes (leaf hairs) are visible on the surface of the kilned leaf. As the burn margin of the wrapper advances, waves of tiny trichomes are charred.
Maybe they are present on all cigars, and I just haven't noticed.
Bob
Thedbs999
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Bob
That really looks great. Glad it was a good cigar. I would have loved to smell the aroma.
Dan
That really looks great. Glad it was a good cigar. I would have loved to smell the aroma.
Dan
OldDinosaurWesH
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Upper leaf Bob. Glad you liked it. I still have the rest of that string in storage waiting for some Connecticut Shade to finish kilning.
In re: trichomes or leaf hairs, I hadn't really noticed. I'll have to look more carefully. Maybe that's because they are pretty fresh and have never been fermented like commercial cigar tobacco. I have about 700 more leaves to experiment on. My Bolivia was very productive. The tallest was 10' 5".
Wes H.
In re: trichomes or leaf hairs, I hadn't really noticed. I'll have to look more carefully. Maybe that's because they are pretty fresh and have never been fermented like commercial cigar tobacco. I have about 700 more leaves to experiment on. My Bolivia was very productive. The tallest was 10' 5".
Wes H.
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