So how did we fare? Matt and I met last Thursday for the big reveal.
Did Matt pull the wool over my eyes? Did I dupe Matt into going against his gut? Find out now!
Matt had an early idea what he was smoking but held off his guess until the end. Matt had guessed Oliva… and was right!
He even guessed 2 out of the three lines correctly. He was right guessing Cigar #2 was the Oliva Connecticut Reserve and Cigar #6, the Serie V Torpedo. Now I thought I was real clever giving him a claro, maduro and spicy cigar, but after I handed him the “mystery smokes”, he opens his travel humidor and pulls out a Serie V and exclaims that other than Tatuaje, this is one of his favorites. So I knew right away this would either be really easy or really embarrassing. Luckily for Matt, he was dead-on. I did trip him up on Cigar #4 as he thought it was an El Cobre (by Oliva) but in fact it was a Serie O Maduro.
Here are Matt’s review’s here:
Plus, here’s Matt’s take on the results.
Ok, so how about me? Well I was pretty sure it was Nicaraguan when I smoked the first cigar. The second cigar tripped me up though as it gave me hints of “Honduran tobacco”. So from that point on I was off of the Nicaraguan puro route and kept trying to fit a multi-country blend, off of one flavor note. So needless to say, I didn’t feel good about my decision at all. The third cigar didn’t make me feel any better, although I recognized it as something I had smoked before. But I had already put my mind on someone like Rocky or CAO or something like that, so I picked Rocky Patel.
Wrong!
No surprise really. I knew it was a wrong guess when I made it, but I had thoroughly confused myself.
The funny thing was, Matt had picked Oliva too!
He gave me a Serie V, an El Cobre and a Master Blend III. I feel somewhat ok about all of this, because the first thought put me in a Nicaraguan state of mind. I had thought it was a Viaje or Oliva until I got derailed with Cigar #3.
So here are my laughable reviews: 
Until next year!
