Don Lino Fumas Connecticut Staff Review
Suppose you smoke as many cigars as I do. In that case, you can’t have too many coolerdors, and that means you can’t have too many inexpensive bundles, like the all-new Don Lino Fumas Connecticut, to satisfy your copious consumption. I’m smoking a 6-by-50 Toro to offer an intimate portrait of the latest Don Lino to cross the threshold of the value vault in our sprawling warehouse, where we store the lion’s share of the bestselling bundles on the planet.
Don Lino is an old-time brand that predates the Cigar Boom days of the 1990s, when cigars flew off store shelves regardless of their taste or consistency. Today, Don Lino is a beacon for volume buyers, like me, with stringent expectations for quality and flavor, despite shelling out the smallest possible amount of cash, when I’m restocking one of my six coolerdors.
It’s not that I won’t splurge on top-rated, top-shelf cigars when the opportunity is ripe, i.e., when a deep discount is applied to the price. However, it’s simply not practical to dole out twenty-dollar bills just for the privilege of enjoying a premium cigar one or more times per day. And that’s where Fumas come into play, friends. Allow me to explain.
Fumas, or Cuban-sandwich cigars, consist of both long and short-filler tobaccos under the wrapper, thereby utilizing the excess tobacco that goes into traditional long-filler blends, which maintains the same flavor for a lower price. Most Fumas come in bundles rather than boxes, which further benefits overall affordability by minimizing packaging expenses.
Don Lino Fumas Connecticut cigars are clad in colorful white cigar bands featuring black and red lettering and gold accents. They offer a milder, creamier version of the original Don Lino Fumas, which I’ve lavished generous praise upon in an earlier review. The Connecticut blend consists of a concoction of mellow Dominican sandwich tobaccos tucked inside a blond Ecuador Connecticut wrapper.
After extracting a golden Toro from a fresh bundle, slipping the cellophane off, and cutting the cap, a pleasant bouquet of nuts and cereal graces my finely tuned taste buds with hints of cedar, almond, and honey in the cold draw. Don Lino Fumas Connecticut ushers in luscious notes of cashew, oak, and coffee bean when I toast the foot to savor the first ten minutes. The Toro performs perfectly, allowing abundant clouds of smoke to protrude through the draw, leaving a stable white ash at the foot with minimal signs of flaking, despite the mixed-filler tobaccos on the inside.
Don Lino Fumas Connecticut transitions into a delicious profile of nuts, vanilla bean, and spice in the second half. The intensity doesn’t increase dramatically, making Fumas Connecticut an easy choice to smoke when you’re doing yard work on a hot, sunny day. For just $3.24 apiece, you can’t beat the quality and value of this creamy and tasty Don Lino blend.
As I zero in on the fifty-minute mark, I’ve got the band off to ravenously devour the nub and consume every last fragment of flavor and fragrance of Don Lino Fumas Connecticut. Velvety notes of pecan, spice, and white cake batter culminate in the final puffs, provoking me to consider firing up a second cigar. My honest advice—procure a bundle in your next order and pass them out to your pals. They’ll think you’ve become an aristocrat.
Until next time, long ashes to you!
