Churchill size cigar, medium dark wrapper a few flaws in the wrapper, otherwise nice little grainy and kind of toothy. Cut well had some initial sourness that I have come to expect from diamond crown products, otherwise so far so well. Burning straight as a razor and the ash is just almost deathly white.

Cigar has started to burn un-even a bit towards where the rapper has flaws; I can easily correct this with my lighter. Medium flavors developing through the cigar although somewhat one-dimensional. I’m hoping to have more flavor developer as the cigar burns further.

So far I’m less than 2 inches into it and the wrapper problems are turning this into quite a mess. I’m hoping with a little surgical precision from my Dupont Extend I can correct this and turn it back into a smokable cigar, otherwise this is going to be a short experiment. A successful touchup attempt with the added benefit of bringing out some more flavors I’m now getting some wood and maybe even a little meat in the flavor of the tobacco. Very nice indeed, very good bodied cigar.

Having had some previous experience with the old standard diamond Crown must say I’m impressed with the beefier quality of the Maximus, much richer flavors what’s again very well constructed even though it had some problems that quite frankly were from storage. Overall I really like this cigar I’ll finish up my comments on it as I finish the cigar. Interesting note on the burn; all the burn along the edge of the cigar is fairly straight. The ash forms one long cone it’s holding to holding together quite well which speaks well for the internal construction of the cigar. I just haven’t seen this kind of length of come before. With about 2 1/2 inches left on the cigar smoke is beginning to get a bit hot but I am probably smoking a little faster than I should have come to the finish of the cigar. It has been very pleasant indeed, never did get overly hot and with a few touchups the burn went quite nicely overall I would give this a cigar very nice rating. 4/5, Joe Bob Says Check it out.