Kentucky Fire Cured Ponies: an unconventional plume of grilled wood
Forget every cigar you have smoked, because Kentucky Fire Cured is unlike anything else. The tobacco is smoked over a wood fire the way one smokes meat or fish, yielding a cigar of warm smoke, charcoal and grilled wood. Ponies is the cigarillo version, 4 inches in a tin of ten, a small doorway into an entirely different world of flavor.
Fire-cured leaf, an unusual technique
Most cigars use sun-cured or air-cured leaf. Kentucky Fire Cured takes the path of smoking the leaf over a wood fire, a technique normally used for pipe tobacco and Southern chewing tobacco.
Drew Estate borrowed that technique for cigars, and the result is a stick with real smoke aroma, closer to a barbecue pit than a traditional smoking lounge.
Ponies, a small cigar for a bold palate
This is a Ponies-shaped cigarillo, 4 inches long at ring 32. The body is small but the strength is medium to full, hardly a gentle starter.
The tin of ten keeps them fresh and ready, easy to carry on you.
A plume of grilled wood
The very first puff is different: grilled wood and charcoal rush up, followed by a warm smokiness like sitting beside a fire.
Within that smoke is a surprising natural sweetness that balances the smoky savor and makes the cigar addictive. This is a flavor you either love at once or grow into.
A cigar for an evening outdoors
Ponies is at its best in open air: a porch, a grill, a cool evening. Its smoky aroma blends into the outdoor air as if they always belonged together.
It suits the smoker who wants to try something truly different, or one bored of familiar blends and hungry for an unconventional experience.
Specifications
- Length
- 4 inches (about 10.16 cm)
- Ring gauge
- 32
- Format (Vitola)
- Cigarillo / Ponies
- Weight
- Medium to Full-bodied
- Flavor
- Grilled wood, charcoal, natural sweetness and warm smoke
- Packaging
- Tin box of 10 cigarettes
