These really are a great value. Might get flamed by more experienced cigar folks, but this natural Principes side by side with an Oliva Connecticut reserve lonsdale, the main difference to a newbie is construction of the handmade vs machine; that Oliva was better made, at 10x the price. The aroma and flavor were quite similar.
I have to chime in and make something clear since I'd ordered and received the Principes Masters Natural from you guys. These do need humidification and you guys do need to keep them humidified until they are shipped. The cigars in the pack you guys sent me all had dried out to a point where some of the wrappers just crumble and unravel and I have to hold on to the wrapper very very very carefully to stop the cigars from falling apart, and all needed a lot of chapsticks to get any draw from them. They come in cellophane, as opposed to plastic so please make sure you guys keep the up coming packs of these cigars in humidified storages.
Has anyone done a comparison between the masters Corona line with the Cameroon wrappers and Regular Corona line with Indonesian wrappers? If so, I'd love to hear the results. Thanks in advance.
You do. Those cigars are wrapped in cellophane as opposed to plastic wrapp which most machine made cigars come in. So they will dry out if you don't keep them in a humidor. I ordered those from Famouse Smokeshop and they sent me a pack with completely dried out, wrappers crumbling, and unraveling, and torn apart cigars, and I could only bring them back to some what smokable condition after I had put them in a humidor for few days. And I still get some wrappers that need chapsticks to block the tears to get any amount of draw. But they really are good cigars for a machine made cigar otherwise. So, make sure to keep them in your humidor if you ever get them. I would recommend CI though. They sent me a fresh pack of those unlike Famouse Smoke Shop, even though I don't want to bash them, but I have to raise the awareness.
Dutch masters Palma: smell like cough medicine, smoking is pretty bland. White Owl New Yorker: OK aroma, coated in something like splenda, smoking is very bland, burning paper with a *slight* hint of coffee. All you can taste is splenda. The best cheap smoke I’ve found are Principes Naturals (I guess known now as Principes “Original”). Real leaf wrapper. Smell and smoke like a real cigar. Not very full flavors but typical tobacco flavors are there. For ¢.70 a piece they’re fine for trout fishing.
Do you buy them from Famouse Smokeshop? If so, how do you tell which is the one with Sumatra wrappers? They list the Original and the Natural but both say that they are Masters line and both are listed as Sumatra wrappers when one of them should be with Cameroon. I want to get the Masters one with Cameroon wrapper thereby having more body and strength than the one with Sumatra.
@@sebastianbolt7886 So I guess Sumatra wrapper since Cameroons come from Africa. Thanks for your help. I had been smoking the Principes Original recently and yes, they are good machine made cigars that actually do taste like genuin cigars. I'd love to try them with Cameroon but Famouse Smoke Shop makes telling between the 2 difficult.
@@Eric-dd8bk They are genuine cigars, LA Aurora are the oldest Dominican cigar makers, they certainly know what they are doing, My favorite Cigars that along with Karen Berger maduro. Delicious 😋
@@sebastianbolt7886 Yeah. These are better than other machine made cigars from machine made cigars only brands cuz they are using La Aurora's tobacco even though they are chopped up pieces I think. As well as real leaf wrapper as opposed to paper even though the binder in these is an htl. Would you say the price will significantly go up if they use another real leaf as the binder even if they still machine roll them though? They will be my only smokes if they can pull it off for around the same price point.
I must have received a defective batch because I couldn't stand the taste of these on my lips. Disgustingly sweet. Poorly wrapped and poorly cut too. You get what you pay for.
