Cameroon Recommendations

Rocky Patel Summer Collection, well its a Cameroon binder with a Habano wrapper but I had to plug it. Have you had the Nub Cameroon yet? That'll be a good test of your wrapper theory

I second the Nub and Hemingway suggestions. Based on having tried just one of each Nub, the Cameroon seems to be by far the tastiest. I dunno if that's all due to the wrapper (which would tend to falsify my theory), or if there are filler differences, too.

j0z3r:

That thing is massive, break my damn jaw trying to chomp on that.

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that...

I wasn't impressed with the CCOM cameroon. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.

The most memorable cameroon that I have had was the La Aurora 1495 Cameroon 1994. It was a really good cigar and is a smaller ring gauge. They only come in corona 5 x 44. I recommend it.

I think I got one of those in my Oliva sampler, Andy. May just have to try it tonight. The maduro was excellent.

in all reality the best cameroon that i have had was the Cx2. but dont look to me as the guy who knows this one. im not a huge cameroon fan. i also liked the nepalese Warrior, but what do you expect from a guy that gave the regent a 92. (the NW is the regent but with a cameroon wrapper. I gave it a 90)

Bad Andy:

I haven't tried the G Maduro yet. I smoked plenty of the cameroons though. I have had an O cameroon and aV also which was just outstanding. I will be trying more when I get home. What did you think of the Maduro?

I enjoyed heck out of it. Had a really nice coffee flavor, as I recall. The details are in my log.

As for Cameroons in general, I'd be hard pressed to pick between Cameroon and Maduro as my favorite wrapper. Or, at least, a lot of my favorite cigars seem to have one of those wrappers.

You know what? I think the Oliva G I smoked was the Cameroon, not the Maduro.

I went to my humi to get the G Cameroon that comes in the Oliva sampler, and there wasn't one. Then I looked at the pictures on ccom, and I saw that the Oliva G Cameroon is unusually dark for a Cameroon. I think that's what I smoked, and the G I have left is the Maduro (even darker).

So count me among the Oliva G Cameroon fans, too. I need to go back and correct the entry in my log.

I'm down to one left here in the desert. I go home in 5 weeks so I will be grabbing a lot for my return. I can't go without thase again. Has anyone else had the Master Blend 3 from Oliva, it's a terrific smoke also.

A couple or three I like that you may not have considered:

Indian Tabac Cameroon Legend.  Nice flavor and excellent value. Got some on auction (Grand Robusto size) for $7 for a 5 pack

H. Uppman Vintage Cameroon - got a box of the petite coronas some time ago. It is a great cigar and usually runs about $90/box. I got mine on special for about $55 I think.

Gurkha Nepalese Warrior.

Yeah I remember those wrapper type samplers too. One thing you could do is the build your own sampler and use the feature where you can sort by wrapper type.

Smoke=Fire:

And just saw that Cusano has a very nice looking Cameroon as well. Anyone sample that one? I may just call up C.Com and see what they can do for me in a Cameroon sampler. I wish they had samplers like this, tailored to a style instead of a brand.

Is that the one that came with the CotMC in one of the two past months? I tried the Habano that came with that one on the 4th but haven't gotten to the Cameroon yet. If it's anything like the habano it should be quite tasty though.