The Don Chico Connecticut

Finishing a Don Chico CT Robusto is so very hard to do.  From the beginning – upon first light – this is a Nicaraguan cigar that patterns itself after a frictionless sojourn into a fantastical feast of flavors and aromas.

One of the newest blends of the Barreda lineup of cigars, the Connecticut is one of the most delectable I have had the pleasure of smoking of late.  How do you describe the thrill a few burning tobacco leaves can provide in words?  You can’t.  Period.  You must smoke it yourself to experience such satisfaction.

As the readers know, I rarely put my fingers to the keyboard to expound the virtues of any cigar –  either one I rep or one I don’t.  But this is different.  As was said to Dr. Campbell at the end of the movie Medicine Man, “You’ve been touched.”  Indeed, I had – and have been.

I was smoking the Don Chico in the garage when the lyrics from the song by Neil Sadaka slowly seeped into my mind, “breaking up is hard to do.”  I was “touched.”  This revelation was the utmost in subtlety.  I found a red pen and wrote, “ . . . finishing a Barreda Connecticut Robusto is so very hard to do” in the margins of an ad for the Eddie Martinez exhibition in the Art Newspaper.

This is so unusual for me.  I dislike cigar reviews.  They are often pretentious and silly in their descriptions.  So why would I do even this?  

Some things are left unanswered, but I do know that when I am moved to write, it is for a damn good reason.