Camacho Havana Diademas Cigar Review

Macho, Macho man!

So I bought a 10 pack of these Camacho Havana Diademas...

I am so exited because the box is crafted so nicely, in yellow with gold lettering. I open the box and wowed even more because each one is wrapped in a golden snake patterned outer material. There are two bands, the one that holds the golden snake skin material and the one on the cigar itself. I take the band off the golden snake pattern wrapping and under there is a second white paper wrapping. I finally get to the cigar itself there's the second band on the cigar. So these cigars are double banded and double gift wrapped. But before even that, when I first opened the box I got hit with a strong whiff of spice and cinnamon as a tobacco scent. Each one smells like very nice aged sweet cinnamon tobacco leaf. The scent from the whole box is a combination of each cigar.

This cigar looks a little like a slimmer club that a cave man back in the day used or like a submarine. The end where you light it has a nipple (I like nipple shaped cigar ends, it makes it easier to light it: one center point to get it going rather than like cigars where the ring gauge is evenly shaped throughout the cigar). The cap where you cut off and the end where you light is not the ring gauge they call a 60. They must refer to the fattest part of the cigar right below the end. The cap's ring gauge is small, I would say the diameter less than a dime.

It is a Salomon shaped cigar

My first was on December 2012 and I had smoked a handful between now and then. It's now June 2014 and I believe from what I can recall is my fourth one. I had gifted a couple away. There are three more out of the original ten in the box.

Vitola: Salomon (8.0" x 60RG)

Price: $11.00 to Sold Out/Limited Supply per cigar

Wrapper: Honduran (Cuban Origin) Criollo

Binder: Honduran (Cuban Origin) Corojo

Filler: Honduran (Cuban Origin) Corojo

Aged in Humidor: 1 Year 6 Months

Appearance and Construction:

A little uneven with noticeable veins with a dark complexion yet not too dark.

I made one mistake with these, I kept them in the box instead of a humidor. They have dried a little but not a bad dried out, luckily I keep up with the humidity the best I can.

Draw: Just Right

Aroma: Medium

Ash: Medium grey, a little flaky but it held in a uniform cone to about 2 inches 

Fumes: Medium

Burn: Perfect with a speckle of uneven

Boldness: Just Right
Harshness: I didn't notice any, not at all even to the bitter end, none
Strength: Medium to Lightly Strong
Complexity: It does have it's points where the notes change but not overly so, yes, a little

Tasting Notes:

The aroma that emits off the wrapper is very nice, sort of like a refined light scent of cinnamon stick with a light hint of pepper or spice. The cold draw is loose and of wood-like and a hint of spice. The most recent cold draw is of the same but also comes with a light sweet cinnamon spice. Lighting it with the butane lighter is easy with the nipple as a fuse.

Initial light: A spicy dried black cherry on wood.

1 cm in: It's like a toasted brownie with wood notes

With the above introduction to what I would consider one of my top ten cigars is a sweet (aged) cinnamon like spice on the aged tobacco, a well refined taste of the tobacco leaf it's made from. Another one of those cigars you can feel the soil it comes from. It's very toasty with a coolness to the puffs. The last of the first is a bit dark toast but not too dark, it has a very nice grilled tobacco note on the last of the third.

The second is less refined, some of the profile from the first dies down and it gets rather toasty with puffs of a cool airiness. The black cherry hints remain lightly now and then and with rotation of toasty dark coffee.

The third has a toasty dark coffee note also, less of the spicy cinnamon and dark cherry notes, more so of toast and dark coffee bean. No harshness of tannin, but deep and dark. There are cigars that do not have good ending but this cigar didn't. I had no problem savoring to the very last inch or savory darkness.

Besides the presentation I like these, they are enjoyable to smoke because of it's smoothness, no harsh spots, it's strong and has a good character. I rate them a 97.