Arturo Fuente Double Chateau
- Brand: Arturo Fuente
- Cigar and Accessory Type: Cigars
- Cigar Country of Origin: USA
- Tobacco Products: Cigars and Accessories
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not as good as i expected
Pros
Attractive presentation, excellent draw characteristics, ok taste first 2/3
Cons
uneven burn, last 1/3 harsh taste and burned hot, bits of ash everywhere
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Try it if you've never smoked one, but there are so many other brands and models on the market, I think I'll try others before I return
I didn't actually have any expectations for this cigar, other than the fact that it's an Arturo Fuente so I assumed it would be really good. I bought the grand robusto size.
I picked one up at the casino smoke shop with some casino credits (yay free cigars), and immediately took note of how it was a very handsome looking cigar with the cedar wrapper on the lower 3/4 of the cigar (just below the band). Unfortunately I wasn't prepared to smoke and didn't have a proper cutter, so I used the stores crappy single blade cutter (which pretty much tore the crap out of the cap) and actually ruined it. (mental note: never use a single blade cutter again, use punch as last resort)
Despite the horrible cut, I proceeded to toast and light the cigar and it took the same amount of time to light as any other cigar. Once lit, I had issues with the cigar "canoeing" on me (meaning part of the cigar was burning unevenly and leaving a part of the wrapper unburnt) I corrected a few times by burning the residual wrapper, but it just appears that the wrapper wasn't tight all the way around the cigar, resulting in repeated canoeing the entire length of cigar. The ash was quite white (a sign of a good cigar I hear), but since the cigar burned so unevenly i wasn't able to determine if the ash length could be longer than one inch or if it left a nice cone on the end after ashing. the cigar lost it's fire about 2/3's of the way through, and required about 3 relights to keep it going... but at that point inhaling became a harsh and too hot to keep going, so I just extinguished it and gave up.
The actual flavor of the cigar was pleasant enough but it didn't strike me as enjoyable as my favorite Rocky Patel vintage 1992's. I tasted some woods and some spiciness for most of the cigar, not good or bad, just sorta unremarkable. By the last 1/3rd I was relighting and the harshness was not worth the effort to keep at it. BUH-BYE!
The draw was excellent, the perfect amount of effort in my opinion.
The construction looked pretty good, with a nice Connecticut shade wrapper. Other reviews of this cigar tout an excellent and even burn, unfortunately, my particular cigar seemed to have a manufacturing defect in the rolling process that resulted in an uneven burn.
This is a medium bodied cigar.
As an odd sidenote, the ash seemed to fall apart quite easily... I've smoked many different cigars in the same place many times, and never had so many little bits of ash on my clothes before. Not sure what to attribute this to, or what it indicates about the cigar, but it's possible that it's from me trying to blow gently on the end of the cigar to get it to even out. However, I've done this before and never gotten covered in ash like this cigar did.
I picked one up at the casino smoke shop with some casino credits (yay free cigars), and immediately took note of how it was a very handsome looking cigar with the cedar wrapper on the lower 3/4 of the cigar (just below the band). Unfortunately I wasn't prepared to smoke and didn't have a proper cutter, so I used the stores crappy single blade cutter (which pretty much tore the crap out of the cap) and actually ruined it. (mental note: never use a single blade cutter again, use punch as last resort)
Despite the horrible cut, I proceeded to toast and light the cigar and it took the same amount of time to light as any other cigar. Once lit, I had issues with the cigar "canoeing" on me (meaning part of the cigar was burning unevenly and leaving a part of the wrapper unburnt) I corrected a few times by burning the residual wrapper, but it just appears that the wrapper wasn't tight all the way around the cigar, resulting in repeated canoeing the entire length of cigar. The ash was quite white (a sign of a good cigar I hear), but since the cigar burned so unevenly i wasn't able to determine if the ash length could be longer than one inch or if it left a nice cone on the end after ashing. the cigar lost it's fire about 2/3's of the way through, and required about 3 relights to keep it going... but at that point inhaling became a harsh and too hot to keep going, so I just extinguished it and gave up.
The actual flavor of the cigar was pleasant enough but it didn't strike me as enjoyable as my favorite Rocky Patel vintage 1992's. I tasted some woods and some spiciness for most of the cigar, not good or bad, just sorta unremarkable. By the last 1/3rd I was relighting and the harshness was not worth the effort to keep at it. BUH-BYE!
The draw was excellent, the perfect amount of effort in my opinion.
The construction looked pretty good, with a nice Connecticut shade wrapper. Other reviews of this cigar tout an excellent and even burn, unfortunately, my particular cigar seemed to have a manufacturing defect in the rolling process that resulted in an uneven burn.
This is a medium bodied cigar.
As an odd sidenote, the ash seemed to fall apart quite easily... I've smoked many different cigars in the same place many times, and never had so many little bits of ash on my clothes before. Not sure what to attribute this to, or what it indicates about the cigar, but it's possible that it's from me trying to blow gently on the end of the cigar to get it to even out. However, I've done this before and never gotten covered in ash like this cigar did.
