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During my recent visit to Fort Lauderdale, I picked up a CAO Brazilia Samba cigar at the Oasis Cigar shop in the Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall in Sunrise, Florida. Last night, I had the pleasure of lighting up the cigar and enjoying it, which took a couple of hours. The CAO Brazilia Samba is a torpedo style cigar made in Nicaragua. It has a dark brown wrapper with an oily sheen an pleasant texture. Only the tiniest of veins is visible. The binder and filler are Nicaraguan. The wrapper is Brazilian, hence the name of the cigar. The CAO Brazilia Samba cigar is very firmly constructed and has a very solid feel to it. It's 6.5" long with a 54 ring gauge. Unlit, the aroma is pleasing, with a hint of a leathery smell to it. The draw is very easy. The cigar lit easily as well. I found that the one I reviewed did not burn very evenly. At first, I attributed this to a poor lighting job my part, but after evening it up a bit and ensuring that the entire end was lit properly, it continued to burn unevenly at the bottom, with the wrapper more or less refusing to burn. Perhaps the bottom got too moist in the humidor, I don't know. I didn't expect that from a CAO cigar. The ash from the CAO Brazilia Samba was extremely firm, which I expected given the firm construction. It was a very light gray, almost white, with trace amounts of other gray colors here and there. The flavor was a bit intense in the first half inch or so, then mellowed out a bit. The smoke was very thick and white, visible all the way from my mouth to the ceiling. My wife found the aroma of the smoke pleasant, as did I. Nevertheless, she asked me to close the sliding glass door to the house while I sat on the screened-in porch smoking it with a beer (the "Grotten Brown" Belgian Ale that Michael Jackson the beer expert rated the best of 2005). The flavor to me was very good, with a hint of a pleasing leathery taste and a very light peppery touch to it. A couple of unintentional breaths of the smoke into my lungs (I normally do not inhale the smoke into my lungs, like - I gather - most of you) were tolerable and didn't make me want to cough like many cigars do. I got a mild "buzz" off the CAO Brazilia Samba, far less than I did from the Perdomo Reserve Cabinet Series I had last week in Florida, but noticeable (and no, I'm sure it wasn't the beer). The cigar lasted at least two hours. I lit it some time after 8pm and it was going well past 10. If you plan to smoke one of these and don't plan to be drawing on it constantly, make sure you allot a couple of hours to enjoying it. All in all, I'd say this was another fine cigar from the good folks at CAO, confirming my evolving opinion that they're one of my favorite manufacturers. On a 1-10 scale, this is at least a 7.5. I'd rate it higher, but the uneven burn and the intense initial draws take it down a peg for me. If I have another in the future and the burn is more even, I'd move it to an 8.
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