mrlgperez

When I heard that General Cigars was creating a cigar that sought to bring the SteamPunk genre to cigars I was looking forward to seeing what the final product would be like. Now that I have smoked one, I have to admit, I am disapointed. Not in presentation, the presentation is excellent. Each box is a decoupage of distressed metal surfaces, antiqued patterns, and other motifs you would expect from steampunk. The cigar itself has a fatigued metal gear around the band. 10/10 on presentation. The wrapper is aged 8 years. Count me in. A blend of five different tobaccos from 4 different countries, that are not Dominican, Mexican, or Nicaraguan? I am intrigued. I bought the 6*50 Wells. (H.G) Then I smoked one. The cigar had issues from the onset of lightig it up. There was a hole in the wrapper that caused a very uneven burn, and I had to constantly touch it up. The taste itself was flat. There was not much taste to this cigar. I was expecting much more. To go along with that, I had something happen I have never seen. The cigar split along a vein in the wrapper leaf. A long split almost an inch long. That was the end of smoking this one. I will have to try it again, because this was obviously a bad cigar. I like Steampunk, I like H.G. Wells. I did not like this cigar. Rating- 3 out of a possible 10.