Review: CAO Gold Maduro Robusto (link)

Cigar Jack put a up a nice review on the CAO Gold Maduro Robusto that I have been wanting to try.

I slowly toasted the foot with matches until I was billowing beautiful smokey clouds hinting of vanilla. The cigar didn’t have the spicy bite of the CAO Brazilia, but did have the same nutty tones with a more earthen body. The Gold Maduro isn’t devoid of spice, but defintly mellower than its sibling from South America. It also had a nice slow burn taking me nearly a full hour to smoke the robusto. This is one of the cigars you want to let the ash hang as long as possible so that it burns cool. It seemed to get a hint of bitterness after I knocked the ash off until it had a chance to progress a bit.