“I held off a long time on ordering the Man O’ War cigar since it seems to be mail order only and let’s face it most cigars that are limited to some of the big mail order houses are pretty awful.”

you are truly clueless….

The guy at your smoke shop really sold you on the “evils” of the mail order houses, didn’t he? Bet he enjoys that extra $2 a stick.

Guys chill out and rate the cigar.

Tried one of these but it had unfortunately arrived by mail order from US to Australia with damaged, brittle wrapper which also ripped and partially unravelled on cutting. Still got plenty of smoke but was disappointed with flavour. Got a strong start with mainly a pepper flavour with a leather background but also with funny “cheap” undertone. Only hints of walnut and coffee, maybe because cigar had dried out at some stage. Did not vary much throughout, maybe just had a bad one. It was a large 7.5 inch presidente from sampler maybe the supplier had a lot of the larger size left over?

I don’t like paying more for anything, cigars included.
Having said that, I have never had a cigar that that tasted as good or smoked as well after being handled by UPS or FedEx and carried around in the back of a truck at 100+ degrees.
I’m not even sure if that makes a difference or not, but I never seem to have any disappointments when I get mine from my shop’s humidor.
I suppose it all depends on how much one buys. If I were buying several boxes a month, I might give the mail orders another try.

from a wholesale distributor or manufacturer direct. reailers done order from mail order.

I realize y’all squabbled and insulted each other about this cigar last year but for what it is worth, here is my two cents (which I guess makes it worth no more than two cents).

I got this cigar based on an online catalog gushing about it. My local shop never heard of it. The torpedoes showed up and I tossed them in my humidor. A couple of weeks later, I tried one. It was God awful. While it looked and burned well it was like licking a burnt pepper of some kind. I don’t think I even finished it. I chalked it up to having learned my lesson.

A couple of weeks later I decided to give another one a go because I needed space in my humidor. I fired it up, took a couple of tastes and things changed. It wasn’t a burnt pepper at all. It was mocha with a hint of spice. It burned cool and long. A couple of days later I tried another one with the same result. I grudgingly had to admit this was a nice cigar.

Jared:

Where I live the ground trucks are not climate controlled. When a box comes of the truck I have to let them sit before putting em in my humidor. You can feel the heat on the box. It was 100 degrees the other day and fedex came at 4pm.

So my cigars were on the truck for a few hours.

But that’s normal. When I worked in a store we let the cigars acclimate before puttijng em into the humidor.