I smoked one of the padron original series blends to see what the hype is last week and I also tried a 1926 series.
Let me firstly say I don’t want to bash a man’s cigar, especially if it is one of his favorites. I know my favorites are not everyone else’s. I know everyone likes different cigars. I know this because I watch a lot of cigar reviews on you tube and everyone’s opinion on cigars are vastly different than others, and mine. I have seen great reviews on terrible cigars IMO, along with so so reviews on my favs.
So, having said that, I do love Nicaraguan cigars over ALL others without a doubt. The padron original series was decent IMO, but not box worthy for me at any price. And the 1926 had some of the dark cherry flavor I like but had some almost perfume flavor going on that was too much for me. So, I’m staying away from padron. Over hyped and way over priced I think, I don’t get it.
I was very afraid I would love padron and have to make them my fav. Happy they are not.
I think everyone needs to try them because of the hype and see. What is your opinion ?