Cigar Review: JFR Robusto Corojo

It’s about time I got to another review and this one is brought to you by Tex Cigars.  This is the JFR Robusto Corojo.  According to the Tex Cigars website, JFR stands for Just for Retailers and is apparently not easy for them to get their hands on.  I’m not sure about the mystery they talk about, but I’m ready to unlock this cigar and see how it measures up to my standards.

Appearance: This is an unbanded cigar with a closed foot and a pigtail cap.  At 5.5×50, it’s a standard robusto size.  The corojo wrapper has a few major veins and a couple nicks and scars as well.  There’s no apparant oils in the wrapper.  Nothing special about this cigar from its appearance.

Taste: This started out pretty mild with some light spice and woodiness.  The spice declined quickly to be taken over by a light floral flavor that was pleasant, but not full.  The floral eventually morphed into kind of a dry grass flavor with the wood still lurking as the heavy base of flavor.  About half way through, the strength kicked up from mild to medium, and the flavor went all wood.  It stayed this way for the rest of the smoke.

Aroma: Not much to the unlit stick in the smell department.  A slight woody scent underlined by a raw tobacco aroma.  Not much to the smoke as well.  Just tobacco.

Construction: Feeling along the body of this cigar, it’s solid.  My first thought was that they might be plugged. The draw, however, was perfect.  It took to flame easily and burned perfectly for the duration.  I’m not lying when I say I was amazed, because those weren’t my expectations.

Overall Impression: This was a decent cigar.  Not bad, but not great either.  I guess not every cigar can blow me away, right?  There you have it, folks.  Talk about down and dirty.

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   Matt M says:

   April 6, 2009 at 7:34 pm

   glad to see you did a review of this, saw them when i was a corona cigar company in orlando i kept walking by them and found myself on a couple occasions heavily debating buying them.

   thanks for the review!

   Matt M
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   cigarfan says:

   April 7, 2009 at 11:30 am

   I noticed there is a big difference between the JFR sold in retail shops and the ones you can buy online. Your description sounds to me like the online ones (sometimes sold as “Just for Catalogs”.) The retail blend is much more robust — if you happen across the JFR in a retail shop, check it out. I think you’ll like it better.
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   JasonT says:

   April 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm

   I think I’ve received on of the in a bomb at one time or another. I wasn’t at home when I smoked it, so I didn’t get to log anything in my journal. It must have been just an ok cigar. I can usually remember the bad cigars and the good cigars.