Camacho cigars are produced by Caribe Imported Cigars, a firm which also produces lines such as Baccarat and La Fontana.  In my opinion, the Camacho brand is Caribe's best, and their most serious, line of cigars.  Made in Honduras, Camacho cigars are meant to hearken back to the old days of serious Havana smokes.

The Camacho Corojo line is billed as an aged, full-bodied, distinctive and authentic corojo cigar, a puro with tobacco grown in the Jamastran valley.  At $5.99 a stick I picked up a couple Toros, a vitola of the classic 6.0 x 50 toro size.  The cigars had a very nice colorado brown, almost rosy color.  The silky-smooth, somewhat-oily wrapper was quite pretty, and the cigar had a well-made cap.  The stick had a medium feel in my hand, and the unlit smoke was strongly aromatic.

The lightup was elegant, full, toasty and rich.  Plenty of ripe tobacco flavors impacted my senses.  Hearty and flavorful, even at first, the cigar developed into a medium to full-bodied smoke after about five minutes.

The cigar provided a rich, cedary character with plenty of flavor.  But it was not at all pushy nor overpowering.  My wife remarked that the aroma was plentiful, smooth and attractive.

But alas! at fifteen minutes it became undeniable that this cigar was not burning well.  One side would not burn, despite my earnest efforts.  Yet the flavors remained smooth and cedary.  Happily, ten minutes later the stick appeared to right itself, and once again burned fairly well.  I removed 1-1/2" of lopsided, medium-gray ash.

At 35 minutes the smoke had entered its second third.  The flavor profile was cedary, smooth and full.  Rich and tasty, this was a very enjoyable cigar.  And a cedary, luscious finish began to take on some pleasant length.

After 45 minutes, at about the halfway mark, everything changed.  Still cedary, the smoke became much fuller and more robust.  Still smooth, the cigar was now bolder, providing bountiful amounts of rich, ripe tobacco flavor.

I was enjoying this smoke immensely.  But sadly, five minutes later those doggone burning problems resurfaced.  Just as I began to get angry, though, the cigar righted itself and resumed a decent burn.  What a see-saw ...

At 55 minutes I began to note some nicotine.  I removed a second, wobbly, inch and a half of ash.  The cigar now produced strong, cedary flavors with a creamy, wood-like finish.

Well, wouldn't you know it -- at an hour and fifteen minutes the stick started burning poorly again.  However, there was none of the typical harshness of a poor burn; flavors were still creamy, cedary, full-bodied.  But the thing was canoeing severely.  My daughter entered the room and exclaimed that it smelled like someone was baking brownies. 

Abandoned at 1 hour 25 minutes, the cigar had become unpleasant because of an awful burn and irrecoverable canoeing.

Despite the significant construction flaws in this cigar, I would consider it to be mildly recommended, simply because of the obvious pedigree of its tobacco, its very good flavors, great finish, and reasonable price.