Black Tiger Cigar Review
Varun, who is our oldest Cigar Club member decided to order a Box of Black Tiger Trichinopoly Cigars, these Cigars are India's oldest and finest Cigars that were smoked by many British generals during the pre-independence era. So we called Cigarsindia.in, who are our suppliers for all our cigar cravings and placed an order for a Box of 24 Black Tiger Cigars.
The Cigars took about of 4 days to be delivered but they did arrive in a fabulous yellow box with the Black Tiger logo and it was also neatly wrapped in a thin sheet of film. We opened it up and there were beautiful Churchill size Cigars and I couldn't wait any longer to light it up.
We bought out our Butane lighters and lit the cigars, the draw was a little hesitant but the on the whole I wouldn't complain too much.
Getting into the first third, I realized that the burn was starting to get a little hesitant and the draw was getting weak too, on the taste perspective, I was getting quite a bit of pepper and a rich of medium to full body strong tobacco. At this point, this is a very average cigar when compared to the Cubans, the draw was getting even more poor, and the tobacco was also too chunky and hence had completely lost its smoothness.
In my opinion if you are used to smoking Cubans, I recommend that you be prepared for a massive downgrade to your pallete, as this Cigar is very average, although it does have a lot of heritage and is also India's only handmade cigar, I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but I must say that it could serve as a decent gift. Here is my list of positives and negatives of the Black Tiger Cigar.
Positives:
Negatives:
Varun, who is our oldest Cigar Club member decided to order a Box of Black Tiger Trichinopoly Cigars, these Cigars are India's oldest and finest Cigars that were smoked by many British generals during the pre-independence era. So we called Cigarsindia.in, who are our suppliers for all our cigar cravings and placed an order for a Box of 24 Black Tiger Cigars.
The Cigars took about of 4 days to be delivered but they did arrive in a fabulous yellow box with the Black Tiger logo and it was also neatly wrapped in a thin sheet of film. We opened it up and there were beautiful Churchill size Cigars and I couldn't wait any longer to light it up.
We bought out our Butane lighters and lit the cigars, the draw was a little hesitant but the on the whole I wouldn't complain too much.
Getting into the first third, I realized that the burn was starting to get a little hesitant and the draw was getting weak too, on the taste perspective, I was getting quite a bit of pepper and a rich of medium to full body strong tobacco. At this point, this is a very average cigar when compared to the Cubans, the draw was getting even more poor, and the tobacco was also too chunky and hence had completely lost its smoothness.
In my opinion if you are used to smoking Cubans, I recommend that you be prepared for a massive downgrade to your pallete, as this Cigar is very average, although it does have a lot of heritage and is also India's only handmade cigar, I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but I must say that it could serve as a decent gift. Here is my list of positives and negatives of the Black Tiger Cigar.
Positives:
- Heritage
- India's Only Hand Made Cigar
- Pricing
- Presentation
- The first 10 draws
- Bad Draw
- Average Tobacco
- Poor Burn
- Average Rolling
- Uneven Binder and Filler
- In-consistent Smoke Output
This are our opinions of the Black Tiger Cigars, if need to order these for tasting you can buy them at the link provided below.
Cheers,
Rajiv Malhotra
Cigar Club Bangalore Member
Great that India have a heritage in hand made cigars. But it's no where close to being a great cigar.
ReplyDeleteI cannot agree more with Rajiv. And I have to say I left the cigar half way as it refused to burn and had a long tar like front for no reason!
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