John T.’s Crowd Pleaser Tubos – Cherry Cream – Cigar Review
This past weekend I pulled a cigar out of the collection to
try. I wanted something different, and I’d picked up several of
John T.’s Crowd Pleaser Tubos -
Cherry Cream flavored. I hadn’t had one before, so this one
qualified as different. Like every new cigar I try, I decided to
review it.
The outer white plastic tube protecting the John
T. cigar is printed in multiple colors. It isn’t an especially
attractive design, but it isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen either. A
small plug of foam sits between the cap of the tube and the foot of the
cigar. Extracting the cigar from the tube took a pretty firm shake
but resulted in no damage to the cigar.
These John T. Crowd Pleaser Tubo
cigars are billed as the “original aromatic
cigar”. They are made in the Dominican Republic with fillers
made from pipe tobacco. In this case, that pipe tobacco is infused
with a cherry cream flavoring.
The cigar’s size is 5.5″ with
a 38 ring gauge. The outer wrapper is a medium to dark brown, with
minimal veins. Although I’d stored it outside my humidor in its
tube due to a lack of space, the cigar seemed appropriately moist and
ready to smoke. It lit reasonably easy with my torch style
lighter. The burn was more even than some cigars I’ve tried
lately, but was slightly off from a true straight, even burn.
The ash was a salt and pepper gray, very firm, coming off only when I
wanted it to.
The aroma of the smoke had a very slight pipe
tobacco smell to it, and was pleasant though not spectacular. The
draw was a little tougher than other cigars I’ve smoked recently, but
not so much as to be a problem. I got 30-45 minutes out of the
cigar. The flavor of the smoke, which did not provide (to my
tastebuds) any hint of the cherry cream flavoring you smelled in the
smoke, was quite mild. It was a decent smoke overall, and I will
very likely finish the others in my collection eventually.
On a 1-10 scale, with 10 being excellent, this cigar rated about
a 6 in my review. That makes it worth smoking if you come across
it inexpensively, but nothing to go out of your way for.