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Cigars and Torpedos? I Love My Job

I must first start off by saying to everyone in the whole wide world through this lovely digital medium that I love my job!!! Not everyone can say that, but to taste cigars everyday is sheer bliss. The cigar on the plate today is another one from the Oliva Family in Nicaragua:

The Flor de Oliva Maduro Torpedo 6 x 52
This beautiful looking cigar comes with a Nicaraguan Maduro wrapper and an all Nicaraguan binder and filler which makes this a puro. These cigars come in a bundle of 25, another one of my little deals that I have found. As I mentioned in the previous review of the Flor de Oliva Gold, you can't go wrong with the bundles from Flor de Oliva. This cigar is going to be under $2 a stick which would qualify as a super deal for most of our readers. Now to the important stuff: how good of a smoke is it. I am a big fan of Maduro cigars as a whole. I love the dark rich oily look of them. Their sweetness to the tongue is quite a nice change from the usual Connecticut or Sumatra wrappers. When it comes to the Flor De Oliva line, I must admit I am quite a bit more partial to the Gold label rather than the Maduro. The reasons, well, you will just have to keep reading to find out.

This cigar looks great. The Maduro wrapper has a nice chocolaty look to it. The same dark brown color the entire wrapper over makes this cigar very appealing to the eyes. I haven't had any yet that have had a problem with big protruding veins, so overall, I would say that on looks, they score quite high.

The construction of the cigar would equally score very high marks. The cigar is jam packed with my beloved Nicaraguan tobacco yet, it is still very easy to draw and it produces a great amount of smoke. The cigar holds its white ash very well and I have very seldom seen it ever start unwrapping while smoking.

As with any Maduro, I would not recommend smoking this cigar where windy conditions could affect the burn. All Maduro wrappers tend to burn slowly, so if you smoke in windy conditions Maduro's tend to run and you will have to light the other end to get it burning smoothly again. Overall, I would say that wrapper performs like other good Maduro's. Just take your time and stay out of the wind.
The Taste of this puro

The taste of the cigar is quite nice. A smooth rich tobacco taste that lingers on the palette is what awaits you when you begin your cigar experience with this Maduro. As with all Flor de Oliva's bundles they can tend to be a bit fresh. You will want to age this cigar for a time. I tend to buy these cigars by the stick rather than by the bundle. I would say that about 50% of the time they have been too fresh to smoke. You will want to buy it and age it a bit in your humidor before you start smoking this one.

I wish the tobacco stores would take time to age their cigars, but they would rather have the few dollars then to have to store them any longer than they have too. The Oliva Maduro is a great cigar when aged, but you chances are about 50/50 of getting one that is too fresh, so expect that when you order. The aged ones are about as good as they get for a $2 smoke.

I am taking a break from the Flor De Oliva's for a few days. The next two cigars that I will be review are the Olor De Cibao Sumatra torpedo and a Te Amo Churchill. These are in my humidor and I am itching to see how they smoke.

As always, send me a line and tell me what you think of the review after you tried the cigar. If you have any cigars that you would like for me to review or if you just want to chat about cigars in general let me know. Use the contact us form at buydominicancigars.com

We will also soon be making available several E-books that I am working on concerning cigars, humidors, and anything even closely related to cigars, so keep checking back. I am going to have to end this review here.

About the Author

Jonathan Byrd is an entreprenuer and cigar enthusiast who is a regular contributor to BuyDominicanCigars.com.

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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for cigars, cheroots, and cigarillos made with tobacco. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for cigars, cheroots, and cigarillos made with tobacco for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

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Interesting Opinions On Cigars From Recent Survey

According to a recent survey by the ASC (alt.smokers.cigars) the following results were obtained from a recent online survey of cigar smokers:

86% of cigar smokers report that they do not inhale.

The average number of cigars smoked per week is 6.74 at and average price of $4.34

The best individual cigars were the Romeo y Julieta Churchill(Cuba) with 8 votes, the Cohiba Esplendido(Cuba) and Montecristo(Cuba) each with 7 votes, and rounding out the top five were the AF Flor Fina and the AF Hemmingway Signature both from the Dominican Republic with 5 votes each

The best cigar brands overall were A. Fuente from Dominican Republic with 15 votes, A. Fuente Hemmingway(DR) with 12 votes, the always popular and internationally known Cohiba from Cuba with 12 votes, Excalibur by HdM of Honduras, and in 5th La Gloria Cubana from the United States.

The worst cigars were Phillies, Swisher Sweets, Habana Golds, White Owl, Te-Amo, Dutch Masters, Hav-A-Tampa, El Producto, Garcia y Vega, H Upmann, Hoyo/Excalibur, and King Edward.

According to the survey the 10 most popular cigar smoking celebrities are George Burns in first place, followed by David Letterman in second, then Arnold Schwarzenegger in third, Groucho Marx fourth, Rush Limbaugh fifth, Tom Selleck sixth, Bill Cosby seventh, Jack Nicholson eighth, Winston Churchill ninth, and the character Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld tenth.

The favorite cutting methods were the guillotine, Bulls Eye, and the V-Cut respectively.

The two most popular methods of lighting the cigar were the butane lighter at 51% and wooden matches at 33%.

According to those surveyed 47% said that they smoked a wide variety of cigars while 38% reported smoking their favorites and testers.

Most reported their reason for smoking cigars was relaxation, followed by "makes me light headed" and enjoyment of smoking.

The length of time the responders had been smoking cigars ranged from newcomer to over 40 years with the average being 7.2 years.

49% of those surveyed said they bought both boxes and singles, 34% bought only single cigars and 17% bought only boxes.

44% of the surveyed cigar smokers bought their cigars locally while 42% bought locally and mail order, and 14% through mail order only.

Of those with a humidor they had an average of 162 cigars in the humidor and at an average total value of $250 with most of the cigars coming from Dominica, Honduras, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

According to the survey 88% said they would smoke Cuban cigars on a regular basis if it were not for the United States ban and their opinion about Fidel Castro was pretty even with 53% saying that they had no opinion about him and 45% being Anti-Castro. 43% said they thought the Cuban Embargo would be lifted by 2009.

About the Author

Gregg Hall is a business consultant and author for many online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida with his 16 year old son. Get great quality cigars at http://www.cubancigarsplus.com

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