This cigar was given to me to try by a friend. Very unusual shape – 5” long, but with a rectangular cross-section about ½” wide and no more than ¼” thick. It’s a flavored cigar made by a collaboration between Rocky Patel and Drew Estate.
Review
Date: November 4, 2009
Cigar: Drew Estate Java Wafe
Price: about $5
Size: 5 x 46 ring but very thin
Shape: box-pressed, rectangular, thin
Wrapper: Maduro
Filler: Nicaraguan & Brazilian, flavored with coffee
Beverage with cigar: Hot coffee
Appearance: medium-dark brown wrapper, smooth and dry.
Pre-Light: Delicious coffee and cocoa scent. Firm feel, with minor soft spots probably due to thin shape.
Clip: straight cut (Palio) – I was surprised there was no no mashing considering the odd shape.
Draw: medium
1/3: After initial light, strong, pleasant but I expected more coffee flavor.
2/3: Still fairly strong tobacco flavor, but still very little coffee essence.
3/3: Mellowed a bit to a milder “typical” inexpensive tobacco flavor. Nothing special, but not a bad flavor.
Burn: Pretty decent. Slightly uneven, needed one minor touch-up.
Ash: would only hold on to about 1" of light gray ash.
Strength: medium, very little nicotine effect.
Time: about 25 minutes.
Impression: Pleasant smoke, but no coffee flavor that I could notice. I have very little flavored cigar experience, so maybe all the flavor was supposed to be only in the aroma, I just expected a stronger coffee/cocoa in the smoke. Still, it was a decent quick cigar. I would buy it again as a pleasant quick smoke without a flavor expectation.
(Oh yeah, that's my smoking buddy.)