Sunoverbeach wrote:The Intenso is a joint effort between Altadis and AJ Fernandez. It is a good'un IMO. Much stronger than the regular Gispert blend.
I like em' strong. Waaaaaaaaaay back in the day the CAO Brazilia line had one they called "Piranha" that was 4 1/2 x 46 that they have apparently discontinued. It's not listed on their official CAOcigars page.....
I've smoked several Padron Anniversary editions that were incredible but those little CAO's blew the Padrons out of the water by a mile. I remember them being almost literally black and the smoke volume was absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, I'm always on the search for the next undiscovered by the masses NIC sticks.
I feel like the Diesel Corona's are a little under loved for what they are. But in all my time in Cigardom, I've never heard of Gispert but the 3 I smoked certainly got my attention. Rapidly.
Oh BTW, the closest 2nd / maybe even equal to that CAO Piranha I have found is the Joya's I mentioned in a Corona size but Cigar Bid wasn't offering that size during my bid time so on a fluke I bid 3x on the next size up and won all 3. (I think it was the next size up) I don't like the ring gauge being much over 50 but for those Joya's, I'll make an exception.