Like its sidekick, Angry Santa, The CAO Evil Snowman is a limited release cigar is a holiday twist on CAO’s famous La Traviata. Its wrapper, a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro, is the same as La Traviata’s except that the leaves were harvested from higher primings for a slightly bolder smoke. The blend diverges more from La Traviata to create a cigar with its own unique and spicy character.

The cigars themselves are tweaks on our award winning La Traviata.

We used the same wrappers as La Traviata (Angry Santa has the Ecuador Habano Natural, Evil Snowman has the Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro), but we selected leaves from higher primings to create slightly bolder smokes. We played with the blends a bit more, choosing tobacco from different regions to create completely new flavors

When we were finished, the cigars had the same delicious appeal of La Traviata, but also unique characters that were all their own.

Blend Profile

The following is the blend for the Evil Snowman.  As mentioned it uses the same wrapper, but it does use some different components (and primings) from the original La Traviata Maduro blend.

Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Honduran
Filler: Nicaraguan, Dominican Piloto Cubano

Vitolas Available

Both the Evil Snowman and Angry Santa are each packaged in boxes of 14 with a total of 1500 boxes produced.   A single vitola 6 1/2 x 52 vitola will be produced for both of these blends.

Appearance

The Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper of the Evil Snowman has a chocolate brown color with some dark spots.  There was an oily complexion on the surface on the wrapper.  There were some visible veins, but the wrapper seams were well hidden.  There is a nice cocoa aroma from the footer of the cigar.

The band to the Evil Snowman is quite large – taking up about half of the length of the cigar.  The band itself is black.  It has a somewhat sinister looking Snowman character smoking a cigar that resembles a La Traviata Maduro.  Coming from the smoke of the cigar are the letters of “CAO”.  (Cigar-Coop.com)