Sunday, March 13, 2011

Padilla Series '68 Robusto Cigar



According to Wikipedia, "A worldwide controversy was sparked when Herberto Padilla was placed under house arrest for his award-winning 1968 anthology Fuera del Juego (Out Of the Game) that expressed dissatisfaction with the Castro regime. The book was then taken out of circulation."
Years later, his son, Ernesto, commemorated the occasion with a cigar, the Series '68, an all Nicaraguan, medium strength cigar, with a Habano wrapper.
I don't know what it is about Padilla cigars, but they never fail to keep my interest, and the '68 is no exception. There seems to be something new in every puff. Smoking this cigar reminded me of that line in Soylent Green, when Charlton Heston looks wistfully at his cigarette and says, "You know, if I had the money, I would smoke two, three of these every day." Highly Recommended.

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