Hiram & Solomon Revival

📌 Brand: Hiram & Salomon
📌 Line: Revival
📌 Size: Toro (6" × 52)
📌 Weight: 16.7 g
📌 Age: 1 year
📌 Origin: Dominican Republic

‍ ‍Tasting Notes

• Sour Char – Acrid and unpleasant

• Bitter Wood – Dry, harsh backbone

• Harsh Pepper – Rough and aggressive

• Ashy Finish – Lingering, dirty aftertaste

First Impressions

The cigar looks rough with inconsistent firmness and noticeable soft and hard spots along the body. Pre-light aroma is muted and raw. Cold draw feels uneven and unpromising, already suggesting combustion problems.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Burn starts unstable immediately, with uneven combustion and harsh smoke. First correction needed early.

• Second Third – Construction collapses. The cigar refuses to burn evenly, requiring multiple touch-ups and at least one relight just to continue. Flavors degrade into bitter wood and sour char.

• Final Third – Constant corrections and relights make it a chore. Smoke overheats, becomes acrid, and the cigar never stabilizes.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Gammel Dansk Bitter Dram - Herbal bitterness chosen purely to reset the palate after harsh, overheated smoke.

• Tea – Japanese Mugicha - Toasty, calming, and cleansing to help neutralize bitterness.

Music Pairing

“Blitzkrieg Bop” – Ramones
Fast, chaotic energy matching a cigar that never behaves.

Final Thoughts

Hiram & Salomon Revival is a total failure in construction. It doesn’t burn correctly, demands constant corrections and relighting, and turns the session into frustration rather than enjoyment.

Final Score: 1/10
Why not a 10?
Awful construction, unstable combustion, repeated corrections and relights, and harsh, acrid flavors throughout.

Only cigars that deliver flawless draw, balance, flavour evolution, construction and satisfaction get a 10.