I was gifted this smoke by a fellow cigar lover about 3 weeks ago. I decided to let it sit for a couple of weeks before I lit it up. The Liberty 2007 comes in its own blue cigar coffin, and the cigar itself is wrapped in tissue paper inside the coffin. Each coffin is individually numbered. I got coffin number 36,877 out of a total of 40,000 cigars produced for 2007. The cigar itself is a “barber pole” type cigar with a mix of maduro and corojo wrapper. The kicker to this cigar is that Camacho claims it has some pre-embargo tobacco in it.
Wrapper: Barber Pole Maduro/Corojo
Binder: Honduras
Filler: Honduras/Pre-embargo
Strength: Medium to Full body
Pre-light: As I ran the cigar the length of my nose, I was getting a lot of different smells. The predominant smell was a nice cocoa flavor, with a touch of the peppery Camacho spice that I’d come to love. From the smell alone, I could tell I though I was for sure going to enjoy this smoke. I clipped the foot of this cigar with my trusty Palio, as usual. As I took a pre-light draw, I was a bit disappointed. The draw felt VERY loose. It felt as though I was sucking through a straw. I dismissed the loose draw and lit up with my Ronson Jetlite.
1/3: As I got started on the first third, the first thing I noticed was a little bit of spice, with some very slight cocoa and leather flavors. As I continued down the smoke, it seemed as though the cocoa flavors went away and it was just a very slight hint of spice. Even though the weather was perfect out, there was no wind, and I took extreme care in lighting this cigar, the burn was REALLY leaving something to be desired. It was crooked and ugly.
2/3: I continued to smoke this cigar, and still felt like I was just sucking air through a straw. I wasn’t getting too much smoke, or flavors for that matter. The cigar continued to give me a very slight spice flavor, but that was about it. The burn was still disappointing. It may have something to do with the “barber pole” type cigar. Maybe the two different wrappers burn at different rates, but I wasn’t impressed so far.
3/3: I continued sucking through this straw that Camacho calls a cigar as I got to the last third. Nothing changed with this cigar all the way through this portion. All I was getting was a decent amount of smoke, and a little spice or pepper flavors. The burn still continued to burn a little ragged. All in all, I was very disappointed with this cigar. With all the hype behind it, and the fancy presentation, you’d think it would have more flavor and complexity, and that it would burn a little bit better. I also was not really impressed with the construction of this cigar. As I said, it was like sucking air through a straw. The bands on the new Camacho cigars are really nice, but perhaps Camacho should pay a little more attention to the flavors and construction of their cigars.
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I am not a big fan of the Camacho line. They disappointment more often than not. I gave up on them.
I just purchased #25,476 for $21.00 plus tax in Ocean City MD. I must say the owner sold me on this barber pole. I have yet to fire it up but now I think I will have a similar experience to all of you. I will let you know.
I thought it was a very fine smoke.
What an excellent post! No idea how you came up with this text..it’d take me weeks. Well worth it though, I’d suspect. Have you considered selling advertising space on your website?