CAO Brazilia thoughts

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by forgop

I smoked one of these about 5 years ago during a long cigar drought on an empty stomach not knowing what I was getting myself into. I think I smoked about 20 minutes worth and wanted to throw up for a few hours. I won't touch another one.

This was pretty much my first experience with one too, back shortly after they first came out, and that Gol was one of the few cigars I was not able to finish. But a few months back I tried another, and that one was pretty tasty.

I don't know if the blend has changed, or if the extra age improved it, or if that first stick was a clunker, but one thing I know for sure . . . my palate has not gotten better.