Zoom Conferences and a Creamy Cigar!

March 1st was parent-teacher conferences, so we went in to teach for a half-day until an 11:15 am dismissal. Parents signed up online for conference blocks on Zoom, and our principal let us go to do the conferences from home. My first parent to sign up was at 1 pm, so I stopped at Total Wine on the way home and grabbed a big cigar, the CAO 770 Flathead, which was seven inches long with a ring gauge of 70.

CAO Flathead 770 - one of Total Wine's top sellers.

After eating lunch and completing the first conference by 1:15pm, I didn't have another parent signed up until 4:15 pm, so I had three hours to grade papers and chill out at home. I had intended to smoke the CAO 770 at a cigar bar later in the week, but the weather was pretty nice, about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and sunny. So I lit a fire in the fire pit, brewed some coffee, and graded papers and smoked that stick outside. It felt like a day off, almost.

Working virtually from home!

I lit the cigar, and the draw was really nice, and the first word that came to mind when the flavor hit me was "velvet," but I was confused. I didn't know why my mind associated the flavor of the CAO Flathead with velvet, but I knew it must have meant something. It also tasted a little like the fire outside, so there was a smoky wood flavor. When I looked up a review online the first review said that the CAO Flathead  was "creamy," so that made sense. You all know I am not terribly experienced, yet, so I didn't have the word "creamy" in my vocabulary for cigar smoking, but the flavor was new and novel to me, so my brain retrieved the word "velvet," and I wondered maybe it was because I love red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting? It didn't really taste like red velvet cake but the draw and taste was creamy, like cream cheese frosting with smoke flavor. (Strange concept, I know. Warning: do not try to smoke cream cheese in your smoke house!) 

I thought the CAO 770 was velvety, lol!

It was a great smoke. The velvet flavor went great with coffee, and it kept me company for two hours outside as I killed time before my 4:15pm conference. I recommend the CAO Flathead 770 without reservation. However, it is a big one so make sure you have a good block of time to savor it!