Very old cigar! It's Don Augusto!

Another quick review on a cigar that I actually smoked a while ago:

Don Augusto Toro, from the awful Thompson cigars. Almost everybody that has started out on cigars gets the recommendation from someone that they should check out Thompson cigars. My advice is, do not listen to them! Back in 2004, when I first really got into cigars, I was given an old humidor (40 ct. size, holes were filled with glue), and some cigars. There were a couple of these cigars that looked like the kind that you could find in the local gas station next to the Phillies - comical blue and white striped labeled with gold lettering , just one of those cigars that is meant for a- "it's a boy! it's a girl!" occasion. It's the venerable Don Augusto. I have never seen these cigars on any other website, so I'm going to assume that these are Thompson's 3rd rate specials. They sell for about $1 each, which is the standard Thompson's cheap deal. Anyways, these cigars had sat in my humidor for the next year, and from what I understand, they were now about 4-5 years old. Not wanting to toss out a cigar based on where it came from, I decided to light the Don Augusto Toro up. I sat outside in the cold spring air and I was floored! This was a mild-medium cigar, and it tasted as good as or better than most of the Macanudos that I have had. That's the truth. It had a natural wrapper, no funky taste, just solid tobacco goodness. On a scale of 1-10, it would be a 10 for flavour, 7 for construction (most of this was probably because of neglect), and 10 for value. Now here's the catch. If you buy a box of these, I really do recommend that you have room in your humidor, because aging is key to this brand. Inventory costs money, so build yourself a good coolidor. I have not been on Thompson's website in a very long time, and once sent them an email to tell them to never send their catalog to me. They still do sometimes, but I don't mind it. The writing contained within is even cheesier than my blog. Ew!