CAO CX2

CAO recently ran a special promotion on their website that required surfers to answer trivia question about Cameroon wrapper cigars. The prize for correctly answering the quiz was a CX2 cigar and a hat. I must have gotten the correct answers because a package arrived from CAO with two cigars a few weeks later. [They ran out of hats and substituted a CAO Crillio, a cigar JMitch has given high marks to after both Crillios he has smoked].

So after letting the CX2 sit in my humi for over 6 weeks I decided to fire it up during our first outdoor poker game of the summer. CAO sent a bigger Toro, 6" inch length with a 54 ring gauge. The Cameroon wrapper was a beautiful brown, but I noticed several cracks which caused it to unravel slightly during a couple points of the smoke, and the burn was slightly uneven and required some work keeping this thick stogie smokin'.

The flavor was woody or toasty, no spice, which was disappointing. It did produce full billows of smoke but was slightly tough to draw on. The wrapper also had little flavor so overall the experience was pretty bland and boring, a disappointing experience to a smoke I was really looking forward to smoking. Now this wasn't a bad cigar, just nothing spectacular about it. Considering the retail price on these is $8 + and they go for more than $5 each in five packs on Cbid, I don't think I'll be buying anymore of these, I'd rather smoke a Indian Tabac Cameroon Legend.


On my scale I have to give the CX2 a 2.5 out of 5. A middle of the road cigar, that is overpriced.

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