Buy the Camacho Triple Maduro at Famous Smoke Shop
- Size: 5″ x 50 (Robusto)
- MSRP: $205.00 (box of 20); $10.25 for a single
- Country of Origin: Honduras
- Wrapper: Maduro
- Binder: Maduro
- Filler: Maduro
- Body: Full
- Strength: Medium
- Humidor Time Prior to Review: 2 months
- Cigars Smoked Prior to Review: 2
- Source: Purchased with personal funds
- Date Smoked: February 2, 2019
I think Camacho is an interesting cigar company. On one hand I am not a big fan of their over the top cigar bands. They are more like billboards than cigar bands, and it’s a bit of a turnoff. I’m the kind of guy that likes the classic Padron band because it flies below the radar. In contrast, Camacho’s new marketing flies in your face.
But on the other hand, Camacho makes some interesting cigars. The American Barrel Aged was a really cool concept, and I thought it was a good cigar as well. The Triple Maduro (or the “Triple Maddy” as some folks like to call it) is another outside the box cigar. The idea of having a maduro wrapper, binder, and filler is cool and makes me wonder “Why didn’t I think of that?”. Kind of a basic idea but novel in it’s own way.
So I guess this is all to say I bought this cigar because of the interesting blend. Not the big shiny “look at me” cigar band. I like a full bodied smoke and figured this Triple Maduro would be right up my alley. As usual I got a pretty good deal on these cigars and I paid $4.40 a stick.
Appearance and Pre-Light Aromas
This cigar features a dark brown wrapper. Half the cigar is covered in paper, but the parts of the cigar you can see have an oily sheen and light tooth. There are some veins, and the seams look tight. The cigar feels a little heavy for its size. A nice dense pack to this one. Topping things off is a neatly applied double cap.
Sniffing the wrapper yields deep rich aromas. Earth, cocoa, leather, and a little musty barnyard aroma. From the foot the aroma is a little lighter and sweeter with notes of milk chocolate, caramel, earth, and hay. Very nice pre-light aromas on this cigar.
I gently remove the footband. It slides right off. I clip the cap and take a test draw. It’s dark and fruity. I start toasting and light up. Start time is 3:00 P.M.
The First Third
The very first puff yields a deep chocolatey flavor. I can already tell that we are in for a treat. The finish is spicy. I will allow the cigar to open up for a couple minutes.
The initial flavors are a rich chocolate, earthiness, and pepper. Spicy red pepper lingers on the back of the palate. I’m not getting a ton of different flavors, but flavors I’m getting are deep and complex. The chocolate seems to run the gamut from milk chocolate, to dark chocolate, to cocoa. There are toasty elements. There is a little wood here. There’s that earthiness. The pepper is also dynamic. It moves from the front of my tongue to the back of my throat. Full bodied. Great start.
It’s a lovely afternoon in Southwest Florida. Last weekend the weather was kind of crappy. Windy, overcast, and rainy. Not optimal for cigar smoking, so I haven’t smoked anything in almost 2 weeks. I’ve been busy with work, and the whole sun setting at 5:30 thing makes it hard for me to sneak in mid-week smokes. But today is quite nice. A little cloudy, but it’s warm with a gentle breeze. The wind rustles the oak tree and birds lazily circle overhead. Our mango tree is in bloom. In the distance I can hear someone aggressively attacking their back yard with a weed whacker.
Our Triple Maduro is smoking pretty good. Great draw, plenty of smoke, but the burn is wavy. At this rate it will need a correction soon. I coax it along with my torch. The ash is pale gray and flakey. The aroma from the resting cigar is an intoxicating chocolate cake scent.
I’m getting a little creaminess in the draw now. Very nice and a great start to each puff. I’m getting a little coffee now as well. These flavors blend so nicely. Cream, chocolate, coffee, and a little spice.
Speaking of coffee, I am getting into making espresso. I bought a $350 coffee grinder and borrowed one of my dad’s espresso machines to see if I liked preparing espresso. It’s a much bigger commitment than buying pre-ground coffee and using a drip machine, but I’m Italian so it’s kind of like that South Park joke. Needless to say I fell in love with making espresso instantly. I started out looking at $400 espresso machines, and now I’m looking at $2,000 machines… may the espresso gods have mercy on my bank account.
We are about 20 minutes in. The cigar is burning slowly. I’m getting a little dark fruitiness through the retrohale. Not sure what it is exactly at this point, but it’s developing. Otherwise, the flavors continue to be a rich blend of coffee, chocolate, and earth. An inch or so of ash falls onto my keyboard.
The burn continues to be a little wavy, not something I noticed on the 2 sticks I smoked prior to this review.
The Second Third
Smoke time is 30 minutes.
We are getting close to the band. Not a huge accomplishment given its placement. The band comes off without a hitch. Here is your band shot:
The flavors continue to be deep and rich. I wish I was half as rich as this cigar. I could travel the world in a private yacht. This is simply a delicious cigar. Again, not a crazy number of flavors but they hit the spot.
The flavors have shifted slightly. Coffee has picked up, black and potent. The chocolate has turned more to a semi-sweet variety. Deep earthiness supports everything. The pepper has dialed back. The retrohale is smooth and easy. I am still getting that dark fruitiness on the retrohale. Blackberries? Blackberry jam? Hard to say. There is a nice sweetness on the retrohale.
I finished reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s about the future of mankind. I enjoyed his first book Sapiens a couple years ago. Basically that book taught me that the only concept humans universally agree on is money. Homo Deus wasn’t quite as mind blowing as Sapiens, but was still interesting. I read a good amount of science fiction, and have been thinking about science fiction, so this book intrigued me. Basically all our jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence before long. What will we do with our time? Personally I plan on drinking espresso and smoking cigars. The singularity won’t be able to take that away from me. Probably.
The burn on our Triple Maddy has been behaving nicely. It hasn’t needed a touch up since the first third. The cigar is firing on all cylinders. It’s not quite as sweet as the first third, but still offering plenty of cocoa and dark chocolate along with coffee and earth.
I can hear our druggie neighbors arguing in the distance. Last week they piled a bunch of junk in their driveway. I wonder if they are practicing the KonMari method? “Does this crack pipe give you joy?” No? Well, lets heap it outside with all our other crap. Welcome to Florida, where million dollar waterfront properties are a stone’s throw from drug addiction and poverty.
A new flavor has emerged: leather. It disappears a puff later, perhaps foreshadowing things to come.
My next door neighbor fires up his riding lawnmower to mow his 1/8 acre lot. His mower sounds like it has a head cold, probably because by the time the machine warms up the work is done. Meanwhile snowbirds clog the streets. Can’t say I blame ’em honestly. It takes all types to make our economy whirl around. Welcome to Florida, the perennially warm lint trap of America.
Strength so far has been manageable. I’m comfortably numb, but not nauseous. Body remains at medium full to full.
The Final Third
Smoke time is an hour. We are cruising along.
Flavors continue to be solid, shifting slightly. Right now it’s coffee, leather, and earth. The chocolate has dialed back. I wish it was still front and center. That was wonderful. Still getting some dark berry flavors through the retrohale. A little black pepper lingers in my nose.
The ash keeps falling off in inch or so chunks. It’s a flakey almost snow white ash, presenting a lovely contrast to the dark maduro wrapper.
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The cigar is getting pungent. A solid full bodied stick at the moment. Dark chocolate is making a comeback. I’m rooting for it. Encouraging it to retake center stage. The front runners are still earth and coffee with a solid pepper finish. Leather nips at their heels.
Nicotine builds in my bloodstream. The world isn’t spinning, but every time I stand up to take a picture it reminds me that I’m smoking a strong cigar.
That dark fruitiness is coming back. Deep and juicy like a ripe plum. The fruit and chocolate are my favorite parts of this cigar.
We are an hour and a 20 minutes in. I have maybe an inch of cigar left. I’m going to keep smoking as I write my final thoughts. The smoke is still cool and flavorful.
At the hour and 35 minute mark the smoke grows warm and the flavors begin to wash out. I’ll end the review here.
Camacho Triple Maduro in Robusto Review – Final Thoughts
This has been a great little cigar. Camacho has succeeded in amplifying all the things maduro lovers love. Deep rich flavors combined with excellent construction and just enough strength to keep you in your chair. The cigar doesn’t twist and turn with transitions, but there are transitions present and there is good complexity too.
For under $5 this is a tough cigar to beat. Well worth checking out if you like the darker leaf and all those dark delcious flavors within it. This isn’t a boring cigar.
Final Score: 4.25 / 5 or a “2” on my 0-2 scale. I’d buy this one again, and would buy a box if I smoked more cigars.
Final Smoke Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
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Anthony says
Nice review! I’ve smoked a lot of Camacho but never the Triple Maduro. I will have to change that.
Dan says
Thank you, Anthony! This was a memorable blend for me and I think it’s well worth exploring. Try one and let me know what you think!
Dan