Name: Edicion Roja Cinco
Country: Honduras
Shape: Parejo
Size: Robusto (5 3/8 inches x 52)
Strength: Medium
Earthy, smooth, with notes of caramel, coffee, and cedar… Deriving pleasure from the Edicion Roja Cinco cigar was easy business. It burned evenly and every draw was as good as the one before it.
Like it happens with most cigars that I like, I smoked it until there was nothing left to smoke.
Name: Cuba Aliados Cabinet Selection Robusto
Country: Honduras
Shape: Parejo
Size: Robusto (5 inches x 50)
Strength: Medium
I had to work overtime on Monday night because I had a deadline to meet. And I needed a cigar to go with it. I chose the Cuba Aliados that has been sitting in my cigar box for over a week. From its look and feel, I could tell it was a good one. It smelled pretty good, and it promised me a good time.
Let’s just say it was a cigar I could work with.
Overall, it was a decent stick, and it went well with peated whisky. It burned evenly, even though I smoked the whole thing rather quickly, in less than 45 minutes. I got hints of chocolate and leather, and, at the end, a nutty aftertaste.
Name: Cumpay Volcan
Country: Nicaragua
Shape: Parejo
Size: Gordito (5 inches x 60)
Strength: Medium to Full
Cumpay Volcan proved to be a very good “alone time” cigar. I smoked one late last night when I was home alone. I paired it with Aerstone 10 Year Old Land Cask, one of my go-to peated whiskies these days.
Cumpay Volcan is a good-looking, medium-bodied cigar with a beautiful aroma. A little peppery and leathery. Hints of coffee and nuts, too.
I smoked it leisurely on my balcony while I read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The cigar burned for about an hour and a half, and then it was time for me to sleep…
This last week I’ve been carrying Pedagogy of the Oppressed with me everywhere I go. I read it the first time earlier this year, back in March. For some reason, I cannot part with it. I keep rereading sentences I have underlined, paragraphs, pages, chapters… There is something there. I feel like I still need time with this book. Something will come out of it in the end, I hope. But what?
Tonight, however, I’ll continue reading Frank Herbert’s Dune. The movie will be out in September 2021, a month from now. I want to finish reading the book before that.
Bored Absurdist 