Odd name for a cigar: "1932"

In 1932 the Great Depression was at its worst, some 30% of the American population was out of work, and things weren't much better elsewhere. In 1932 Herbert Hoover was still president and prohibition was still in effect. In my own family, my great aunt's husband died, so she sold the farm and put the money in the bank for her and her children, but the bank failed shortly thereafter and she lost all her money, in 1932.
So it struck me funny that anybody would name a cigar after such a terrible year. But that's just what Ernesto Padilla did, it wasn't for any macabre or political reasons, turns out, that was the year his father, Heberto Padilla, "noted Cuban poet," was born. Life goes on, even in the worst of times.
The cigar (I had a Robusto), tasted pretty good. If you took an average (but good), cigar and added a little more - a little more spice, a little more richness, a little woody flavor - you might come up with the Padilla Signature 1932. It's one of those interesting cigars that you find yourself peering at as you smoke it, trying to figure out how to describe it in a single word. I never came up with that word, so I guess I'll have to smoke some more.

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