Popular Post Gorangutang Posted October 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2020 What a strange idea. Im back at it again with RyJ SCthis since I don’t have any other full Cuban boxes aside from Monte 2 - and I love those Monte 2's. I wanted to try this with something that I hadn’t been enjoying and that I hoped I could save with this test. Same box for both. I tossed the box and didn’t record the full code, just the date. Didn’t know it was important at the time. Now I know better. They have been put down and resting for over 30 days at 65%/70deg. A - Romeo y Julieta Short ChurchillSEP 19 Dry Review: Wrapper on this one was ok. The whole box looks like this. Wish they were darker and had more oil. Draw was fine. Not a pleasant smoke. Mostly pepper in the beginning strong off-putting ash flavor. This lasted through the first 2/3rds of the cigar. The last 3rd opened up a bit and it became more enjoyable but not good. Mellowed out a little bit. This is the same experience I have got from anything I have smoked from this box. Wasn't enjoyable and stopped at the band. 60/100. B - Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill SEP 19 Wet Review: Watched the video where they dipped the Monte 4’s and thought it was a crazy idea. Now I am not so sure. I had planned on just putting this whole box away to rest hoping it opened up and became salvageable in a few years. After wetting one and smoking it however, I think they are smokeable now with this approach and they are even good. Wrapper was in the same condition as the last one. Here we go for the dunk - dipped it all except for the tip of the head and let it sit for just 1 second and pulled it out. Cut it and tested the draw. Good draw no issue. Lit it and took my first puff. Immediately I was really blown away by how much the cigar had improved. It wasn’t a 90+ rating improvement or anything. But it went from something I would pass on to something that I would consider a completely enjoyable daily smoke with nothing but a second long dip in tap water. The interesting thing is how the wrapper dried so quickly - maybe 5 minutes. Im in Chicago, and its a little chilly and windy today (I smoke outside). The wrapper did absorb the water right up - I know this because the wrapper itself got a little sticky. This time around I got some pepper in the beginning but none of the gross ash taste. A little bit into the 2nd 3rd I continued to get that pleasant pepper but also what I would call some new car leather. Everything is much smoother than before. Also - strangely the cigar seems to be burning more quickly… Cant explain that, maybe the wind picked up? The last third kept the flavors consistently but introduced a little bitterness, not unpleasant though. The whole way through this was a much better cigar than when smoked dry. I nubbed it actually. 80/100. I am going to try this again now when I have a cigar that isn’t generally an enjoyable smoke. Based on this I am also going to take one of these same cigars and put it in a separate container at higher humidity for a few weeks and try it again that way without dipping. If dipping it improved the flavors, maybe these just need a bit more moisture overall. Final results: Dipping increased my “rating’ of this by 20 points. Went from a dud to a totally enjoyable cigar. I am shocked by the results. Didn’t expect it. I want to understand how this works and hope we can all come together to figure that out. Will be doing this again, thats for sure. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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