Smoked: Camacho Triple Maduro

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Camacho Triple Maduro is made of Honduran, Dominican and Brazilian Maduro filler, a Corojo Maduro binder, and covered in an oily Mexican San Andres Maduro wrapper. As described in the name – maduro, maduro, maduro!

The cigar sports a shiny silver and black band proclaiming it a “Camacho” sideways and a “Triple Maduro” next to the brand lettering logo. There’s also a silver and black footer. Getting a clear cell phone pic of this stick was a challenge with the reflections from the band. This is the best I could do on such short notice.

Oak & hickory, an array of spices but dominated by pepper, chalky earth, dark chocolate, and a hint of cinnamon and almonds, which accelerates into the second third. Coffee notes leaning toward espresso show up as the final third begins. There is some balance to the flavors but make no mistake this is a wood, earth and pepper-driven stick.

Very tight draw – Perfect Draw to the rescue, kind of – it was still tight, but smokeable, even burn line, gray ash a bit flaky, could have used some more oomph to the smoke production.

This is a very strong cigar – full-bodied and full strength. I have never smoked a vitola larger than a robust. Not sure I could. As with all Camachos, the Triple Maduro was reblended when Davidoff took over. It has been so long since I’ve smoked a Camacho Triple Maduro I couldn’t describe a difference. I have a number of friends who still swear by this cigar and have never heard a complaint regarding a reblend – unlike the constant complaints I hear about the original corojo to the current iteration.

There was a time I enjoyed the Camacho Triple Maduro. Over time, it’s possible my palate has changed, the blend has changed and/or I just can’t deal with a cigar this strong anymore. I give it a 3 on the Cigar World scoring table. The tight draw and lack of smoke output didn’t help the experience.