Review: A. Fuente La Florina 8-5-8

When i'm looking for a good all around cigar, I pick this one, in fact Arturo Fuente is in my top five cigar manufacturers. I never really put my top five in any certain order, because all manufacturers have one or two cigars that are pretty hit and miss.

The 8-5-8 has a nice size to it, a goos cigar to just keep a supply of when you want to enjoy a smoke when there s now special occasion this cigar can be enjoyed at anytime. One thing that never disappoints is how well it's made, I have not yet had one that was either too loose or too hard to draw from and caused me to just pitch it out the car window or let it go out so it can be disposed of later.

Upon first light you get a perfect mix of smoothness and the medium flavor of pure natural tobacco. It has very slight understones of spice and a bit of creaminess.

The room note or the lingering smell of the smoked stogie is pretty nice, it smells like like the cigar before lighting, well to me it does.

An important bit of the entire cigar experiece is the nose, or the initial smell of the cigar. Like wine, brandy, or good beer. A good cigar should have smells of cedar, natural tobacco, depending on the wrapper you may mell a hint of spice, a bit of bitterneess, and a smell of almonds. Like smelling or nosing wine do not just give it a small casual whiff, give it a deep gentle smell, hell blow your nose after you mell if and then smell it agian.

Now on to tasting, after lighting, which i will make a tutorial for later, puff slowly, even hold it in your mouth for a second, blow out the smoke and think of what you tasted. Now to some people a cigar will always taste like rolled up burning leaves, but to to others it is a joy to the tastebuds. Now not the after tastedid it leave a very terrible taste in your mouth, or did it leave the taste of the initial light and puff? If you can taste many, or at the least two or three of the underling tastes that exist in your very fine stogie, then good, if not keep at it and if after a while you don't like it then toss them or give them to that uncle you have to loves cigars.

towards the middle of the cigar you may notice a slight change in taste, that's one more thing that can really make or break a cigar, this is most noticeable in a Cohiba.

Now on to the actual ratings

Nose: 7
mild, most noticeable is the cedar smell.

Taste: 7
Smooth pure tobacco with a hint of spice, not harsh like some cigars

Feel: 10
Very nice to hold, very for but not rolled too tight wrapping stays on.

Draw: 8
Nice but on this particular one it's not as good as it could be, but i am not going to judge all of them by one single stogie.

Room Note: 9
I will linger a while, as all cigars do, but it has kind of a woody smell, and of course a smokey one, but not a string smell, not one most people object to. This makes it a good cigar to smoke in the monpany of cigarette smokers, as they are the ones most likely to object to the smell of a cigar anyway.

Life in my humidor:1 I love these cigars, they are my good all around smoke and i usually smoke them oncei buy them, bad habit of mine, but so nice.

Until next time, happy smoking!