I am pleased to report on the excellent quality of one of Perdomo's cheaper cigars, the 826 Slow Aged maduro (robusto size). I'd acquired a 5-pack these months ago at a rock-bottom bid (5 bucks!) at a cigarbid.com auction and had tucked them away in my humidor, assuming they were dog rockets.
Wrong, Einstein. The first one of the bunch burned well, drew well, and had excellent nutty maduro flavor in the mid to strong taste range. If the wind hadn't tipped my beer over into my ashtray, I would have enjoyed it even more. (Yes, I was smoking in the wind, fiendish fool that I am. The fact that a cigar this cheap tasted this good despite 30 mph gusts is yet more testament to its quality). I ended up snipping off the wet end and lighting the unjustly foreshortened stogie all over again. No matter. It picked up right where it had left off, giving me loads of ample and surprisingly refined smoking pleasure.
I look forward to polishing off the rest of these underpublicized and reasonably priced gems under normal weather conditions. Even at their normal box price of $40, you can't beat em. And for a buck per stick at auction, you can safely say you are STICKING IT TO THE MAN.
Which in this case probably wouldn't be Nick Perdomo, but rather the faceless distributor who didn't make its usual obscene markup.
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