Hello Stogie Review! As always, Ed and I offer you our monthly guest review for the month of April.
A month or two ago, Ed was given some samples of the Air Bender by La Flor Dominicana. He smoked one immediately and wasn’t impressed at all. Then I saw Stogie Review’s own Brian Hewett review this cigar, and he wasn’t impressed either. This left us with low expectation to say the least.
Ed let the cigars rest for awhile before we did the review. To our surprise, it was overall a very nice smoke. The first third was good but somewhat lackluster. As we reached the second third, it quickly ramped up to a nice full bodied experience. The Air Bender proves that you can have a nice full bodied cigar without sacrificing flavor.
This also goes to show how subjective this whole “Good cigar, bad cigar” thing is. As always, I’d be curious how your experience compares to ours. I do know that Ed and I will be smoking more of these for sure!
I really look forward to your monthly spot, like I’ve mentioned before you two have a great report and your back and forth conversation is fun to watch. It is nice to see two reviewers talking about their experiences of the same cigar, because it highlights the differences that are found in the cigar and gives a clearer pictures of what this cigar could offer.
I was wondering about this cigar after the negative review that Brian and Rich did on the cigar and it sounds like you both like it. It also sounds like this cigar might age well too. Thanks for the review.
As always, a great review guys!
This is one of those cigars I doubt I will try, or at least I will make sure I try it at home so I can run the the bathroom or lay down quickly =)
Mike
Jimmy – Glad you enjoy the reviews! If I had to choose now, I’d say I like the Air Bender more then the Coronado. I emailed Ed as I’m curious of his opinion.
Mike – Aw C’mon man! give it a shot! Just keep a sweet drink around if you start to get too queasy.
Very nice job guys.