Cigars - Onyx and Don Diego

by Trey Evans (RSS feed)
May 4th 2006 at 7:30AM

Because the site was somewhat lacking in actual cigar reviews, Ryan from buymycigars.com sent over three smokes for me to try out and share my (non-expert) opinion with all you awesome readers. So far, I've enjoyed the Don Diego corona and the Onyx Reserve lonsdale. The Cohiba Corona Minor deserves its own post, and will get one later. Check out what all I have to say after the jump.

The Onyx Reserve is a 6", 44 ring gauge Connecticut Broadleaf wrapped cigar with a very heavy mouth feel. It smoked

very well, and once it got going, burned very evenly and never got too hot until the very end. Smoking time was around 40 minutes and the cigar never had to be evened out or re-lit. My Dupont lighter lit it just fine, but the wrapper separated from the binder as soon as I cut the tip, even though it lived in my humidor until I was ready to smoke it.

The Don Diego was a much milder cigar, but was incredibly hard to draw on because it was packed so dense. It is a five inch, 42 ring gauge Dominican cigar with a very mild taste and hardly any aftertaste. It lit well and burned more evenly than the Onyx, but it was less windy that night, so that could easily be the cause. It burned just over an hour but was quite hot to smoke, and became unpleasant after about 55 minutes and was discarded.

The two can't be compared, they're far too different, but both were nice smokes and went well with The Macallan Fine Oak 15 year, my usual cigar smoking Scotch whisky. I preferred the Onyx because it was easier to smoke, and I like a bolder taste. My usual smoke is a CAO Itallia Piazza, and I'll be sticking to that, but neither cigar was offensive.

Special thanks to Ryan at buymycigars.com.

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