Size: 5" x 56
Wrapper: Honduras
Binder: Honduras
Filler: Italy, Nicaragua, Peru
First taste is VERY nice! It tasted to me like a chocolate/coffee flavor. Delicious. This is a perfect cigar for a gorgeous California October day with the temp being at around 80 degrees. I have kept this cigar in my humidor for about 6 months. The CAO Italia Ciao has a nice dark brown, smooth wrapper with the ash forming into a dark gray. Every puff is very tasty. I would rate this cigar at about a full but, not full enough to knock you on your butt. I don't think CAO makes a bad cigar because, every one I have had in the past are good. The drink of my choice today is glass of Shasta Cola. I haven't been to the grocery store yet... Acutally Mrs. CigarTailor has left to do some shopping and the Baby Tailors are taking their naps. This is the perfect time for me to sit outside on the front patio enjoying the day with a good cigar while reflecting on life or just reading a book. Right now, I have been remembering what the month of October meant to me when I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin. The Autumn Wisconsin air is much different than it is here in California. I am not talking about pollution as a matter of fact the air in the part of California I live in is quite clean. What I am trying to say is that not only is the air in Wisconsin much cooler than it is in California but, there is a crispness or a better description would be a electricity to the air. October was always my favorite month when I was a young lad. I guess the biggest reason is because of Halloween. Dressing up in a costume and ringing door bells for free candy. How cool is that when you are a child. We would also attend our city's Jaycees Haunted House and watch the old classic monster movies from the 30's to the 50's which I still say are better than so called scary movies they are making today. Today's scary movies seemed more on trying to gross you out as opposed to scaring you. Alfred Hitchcock made the best movies. Another reason why I love Autumn, Football. I love Football ever since I was a little kid. I love the smell of the turf on a breezy Autumn afternoon just before game day but, I digress...
Anyway, back to the cigar. The flaky dark gray ash held onto the cigar at about an 1-1/2" with the flavoring seeming to mellow out a bit but, still a tasty little cigar. I highly recommend the CAO Ciao or any CAO for that matter.
'nuff said.