Consuegra #30 Robusto
Origin: Honduras
Size: 5.25 X 50
Wrapper: EMS

From JR Cigars:
This brand is the Holy Grail for those serious cigar smokers who appreciate a full, rich-tasting cigar and want it at a serious discount. They are the bundled segundos and production overruns made at the famed Villazon factory in Honduras - the makers of Punch, Hoyo de Monterrey, Excalibur, El Rey del Mundo, JR Ultimates, etc. These are wildly popular with our customers - and with good cause.

Reviewed by: John Pagnotta
Date: May 2005
Notes:

At one time these cigars were the industries best kept secret. You'd get a bundle of 25 cigars for about 20 to 25 bucks. In a bundle you'd have about 1 or 2 throw aways that you could not smoke because you could not draw on it or the skin would unravel. They are seconds of the Villazon factory and you could tell. They we're a great smoke for the money.

BUT NOW....In my oponion they're crap. In a bundle of 25, You get maybe 10 good smokes (if that). The rest of them either come apart like a cheap suit or you can't draw on them.

I keep trying these cigars every once in a while to see if there getting any better...There not. I've tried them in a 50 ring of variable lengths, with all the same results. I tell ya somthing, when you get a good one, it makes you say, "Wow this is a real good smoke" But that don't help you when your out on the golf course and the 2 or 3 cigars you took with you that day are unsmokible because you can't draw on them or the skin is unraveling to the point of embarrassing.

At one time these we're just Honduran tobaco, thats when these we're fine. Now they have Nicaraguan tobaco in the mix, I think that's when the problem started. I've tried these many of times over the last 10 years hoping they would be what they once were, they're not even close. Save your money.