I was a regular attendee at Cigar Aficionado magazine's NYC Big Smoke event, held twice a year in May and November, one of the highlights was watching the cigar rollers at Nick Perdomo's table. He and his father are the manufacturers of some of the world's more famous and approved non-Cuban cigar lines. I was also able to get his autograph and speak to him briefly at the end of one of those events.
The fresh rolled cigars were usually made of tobacco used in either his Estate Seleccion or Perdomo Reserve lines, perhaps his two top cigars, although I'm not quite up to date on all the latest in the cigar business. I pulled out a very red looking torpedo from Desk Top II this morning and lit it at 1140 hours. Since it's been awhile since I purchased this cigar from his table at probably the last Big Smoke event I attended, it's at least a couple years old. I believe this was one of his Perdomo Reserve cigars, one of many sitting in a pile at the table, piles that grew right in front of one's eyes as you made the rounds at the event.
This one was from a series of wrappers that were mostly a chocolate brown color, although there was very occasionally a very red looking one, like this one. For more information on how wrappers get their various colors, you can always do a google search, or go to cigarwise.com, or some other such web site, where true experts hang out. Although I have read mostly everything there is about how various kinds of tobacco are processed, I'm a bit rusty, and there are certain urgent matters that occupy a great deal of my mind these days.
Anyhow, from the moment I lit this cigar I could tell it was going to be a good smoke. Rich and full bodied all the way through, with an easy draw, it was a nice accompaniment to my little excursion through my back yard to check out certain turf 'issues' that need to be addressed in an ongoing fashion. After getting my mail and coming back inside this cigar continued to please me with pungent flavors of charred beef, smoked lamb and occasional bursts of spicy leather. Very few cigars by the rising star of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, Nick Perdomo, have failed to please me. This one pleased me very much. A very nice smoke that ended at 1254 hours.
If you ever have the occasion to be at a place where his live cigar rollers are giving an exhibition, expensive or not, it's worth it to pick up at least a couple.
The fresh rolled cigars were usually made of tobacco used in either his Estate Seleccion or Perdomo Reserve lines, perhaps his two top cigars, although I'm not quite up to date on all the latest in the cigar business. I pulled out a very red looking torpedo from Desk Top II this morning and lit it at 1140 hours. Since it's been awhile since I purchased this cigar from his table at probably the last Big Smoke event I attended, it's at least a couple years old. I believe this was one of his Perdomo Reserve cigars, one of many sitting in a pile at the table, piles that grew right in front of one's eyes as you made the rounds at the event.
This one was from a series of wrappers that were mostly a chocolate brown color, although there was very occasionally a very red looking one, like this one. For more information on how wrappers get their various colors, you can always do a google search, or go to cigarwise.com, or some other such web site, where true experts hang out. Although I have read mostly everything there is about how various kinds of tobacco are processed, I'm a bit rusty, and there are certain urgent matters that occupy a great deal of my mind these days.
Anyhow, from the moment I lit this cigar I could tell it was going to be a good smoke. Rich and full bodied all the way through, with an easy draw, it was a nice accompaniment to my little excursion through my back yard to check out certain turf 'issues' that need to be addressed in an ongoing fashion. After getting my mail and coming back inside this cigar continued to please me with pungent flavors of charred beef, smoked lamb and occasional bursts of spicy leather. Very few cigars by the rising star of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, Nick Perdomo, have failed to please me. This one pleased me very much. A very nice smoke that ended at 1254 hours.
If you ever have the occasion to be at a place where his live cigar rollers are giving an exhibition, expensive or not, it's worth it to pick up at least a couple.
