Cigar Preview: My Father Cigars Connecticut

Vitola: Robusto
Size: 5.25″ x 52 Ring Gauge
Price ~$7.60 MSRP
Obtained From Maxamar’s as a review sample

Background

My Father Cigars are known for their powerful and spicy cigars.  I know I was wondering how they would do producing a cigar with a Connecticut shade wrapper.  There is another maker that in my opinion makes a great medium to full cigar, but really can’t do much with Connecticut shade.  I was a bit hopeful to see what Pepin and Jaime were able to do with it.  I do remember the single Connecticut shade cigar in the Jaime Garcia limited edition from a few years ago and if I remember I was a bit underwhelmed.  Also many of you know that Connecticut shade usually isn’t the type of cigars I gravitate towards.  Enough of that…let’s find out about the cigar.  Dave did a review of this cigar a couple weeks ago and you can check it out here.  Even though this cigar is for sale this particular cigar came from the IPCPR show so I decided to not score it like we normally do.  This was my second time smoking this cigar.

Prelight

The wrapper on it was a nice golden brown with some spots of darker mottling.  There were some oils to the wrapper as well, which is something I’m beginning to see with these newer stronger releases.  The top band is the same found on the other My Father cigars with the bottom band differentiating the blend which makes it easy to figure out what the cigar is.  When I gave it a squeeze there was a slight amount of give with no soft spots.  Putting my nose to the wrapper I could detect some hay with barnyard coming from the foot.  After clipping and taking a cold draw on it I good a good draw with the flavors of hay and marshmallow.

Flavor

The cigar starts off with the familiar Pepin blast of spice, especially on the retrohale.  After a few more puffs I start to get notes of hay, leather and earth with a hint of sweetness on the finish.  Towards the end of this third I started to get a bit of cream and butter (like I got on the RoMa Craft Intemperance CT).  I don’t know about Janny’s comment about this being a mild cigar, it was more at the upper end of medium range to me.  As I got into the second third the spice did tone down but didn’t go away.  The flavors didn’t really change from what I got in the first third with the exception of a hint of green herbs thrown in.  The final third saw the spice start to come back, but not nearly as in tense as the first third.  I would still classify it at the upper end of medium in regards to strength.  The flavors were pretty much the same as the second third.

Construction

The draw was pretty much perfect throughout and it produced a large volume of smoke.  The burn line was pretty even as well.  The only construction issue I had was a tunnel developed at the beginning of the second third but luckily it resolved itself pretty quickly.

Value

I’m really liking that there is a cigar priced at the lower end in the My Father Cigar line.

Conclusions

I very much enjoyed this cigar.  I think it would be an excellent pairing to a nice cup of coffee in the morning.  I also think that it would be a good first cigar of the day no matter what time it is.  I will be smoking more of this cigar and can recommend it to any My Father Cigar fan, any medium to full strength smokers, or anyone who might be wanting to try expanding their smoking breadth without risking a nicotine hit.  Our sponsor SmallBatchCigar.com has them and some of the other sizes in stock here.