![]() After a solid medium start, this ramps up to a strength and body of medium-plus with the flavor a hefty medium/full. The finish is very long and I find myself thinking of the lushness of the jungle, the very fertility that is sweet decay and overly rich soil, and the sweet, ripe tropical fruits born of that richness. The draw is slightly tighter than ideal on some samples, with others being even tighter, requiring the use of a draw poker. This thing tastes like a spicy caramelized banana. Interestingly, this cigar audibly pops occasionally while resting, like a big Rice Krispie. Chocolate dances across my tongue, which has warmed from an unidentifiable spice. The first few puffs are about 50/50 tropical fruitiness and earth as the standout components, with some cinnamon candy spiciness developing on the retrohale after the first 1/4” is burned. The cold draw knocks my socks off-heavy banana, mango, and cream. The mouth-piece smells of a Mexican caffè mocha-sweet cream, coffee, chocolate, spicy chiles, and cinnamon. After clipping the cap, the first thing I notice are the thick black curls of the rare tobaccos in the bunch they certainly stand out visibly. The foot gives impressions of sweet tobacco and cold-brewed coffee. The scent from the wrapper presents a heady mixture of baker’s chocolate and barnyard, with the main feature being overripe bananas. ![]() This cigar isn’t attractive in the conventional sense, but it is definitely selling itself as something exotic and therefore I feel the look is fitting. The cigars are firm, with a couple of soft spots, but nothing to give me cause to worry. There is a very fine tooth to the wrapper, and the seams are tight but visible due to the color gradient. The Anaconda sports a very oily sheen on the mottled, dark, reddish/brown, veiny wrapper. The double caps are sloppily applied on each sample smoked. These indentations add to the cigar’s overall lumpy and rustic appearance… the kind you might expect to have handed to you by the natives when you visit the rainforest. It’s applied tightly, and the cigar is indented beneath it, like a wild boar getting squeezed by an anaconda before being devoured (I’ve got to stop with these). Of course the first thing you will notice about this cigar is the “band,” which incorporates twisted tobaccos that snake (see what I did there?) their way down roughly one-third of the cigar. That’s two unique filler tobaccos and a new wrapper to wrap it all up. So we have here a cigar with the Bragança tobacco from the first release, the Fuma Em Corda from the second release, and now incorporating the third tobacco, Bahiano Habano, in the final chapter-the Amazon Anaconda. Grown in the fertile Bahia region of eastern Brazil, the Bahiano Habano wrapper yielded a leaf that was dense, compact, and extremely flavorful.” This time, the natives presented him with a hearty wrapper leaf they call Bahiano Habano which is used for the first and only time in CAO Amazon Anaconda. Ernest Gocaj, the Indiana Jones of the cigar world, took his final trip to the wilds of Brazil in 2013. “It started with CAO Amazon Basin, continued with Fuma Em Corda and now, the CAO Amazon trilogy reaches a crescendo with Amazon Anaconda, a new limited edition cigar made with the rarest tobaccos known to man. Finally, it’s time for the triumphant return: the Last Crusade… I mean the Amazon Anaconda. To get his hands on as much of this tobacco as he could, Ernest told the farmers he would take all of that year’s harvest, right then and there.”Īnd now your Temple of Doom, which incorporated the Bragança tobacco with the new Fuma Em Corda. He instantly knew he was on to something. Ernest put the fermented tobacco in his mouth and chewed it to experience the aroma and flavor. In the Alagoas, the natives fermented Arapiraca tobacco in ropes and call the tobacco Fuma Em Corda. There he was witness to an ancestral fermentation method that produced tobacco with flavor like nothing else. “Ernest returned to Brazil, this time to the Alagoas region in the center of the country. So there you’ve got your Raiders of the Lost Ark. The tobacco Ernest discovered was Brazilian Bragança tobacco, the foundation of CAO’s Amazon Basin.” ![]() There, in the Amazon, he met natives who cultivated a rare variety of tobacco. “Known as the Indiana Jones of the cigar business, Ernest Gocaj traveled to Brazil in 2012. But as far as CAO’s Amazon Anaconda is concerned, here’s the rundown: Well, I’ll pitch that to Spielberg and keep you updated. Remember that time that Indiana Jones went to the Amazon Jungle and discovered a rare, mythical breed of tobacco? And then he spent several years learning how to become a level 9 cigar roller? Then he used his new cigars to obtain super powers, helping him to defeat the Nazis and woo the ladies and deliver the precious artifact to its rightful home of the museum? No? Hmm.
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