Leafy Times » ISOM by Perdomo

About a year ago, JRCigar had a weekly special for ISOMs by Perdomo. Two things I noticed immediately about the name.

ISOM = Island South of Miami = Cuba
Most cigars that are “By” a major manufactures suck.

Being relatively new to cigars and figuring at $39 for 24 “How could I go wrong?”, I ordered a box of the Torpedoes 6.25X54. These arrived with a perfect plume and I was blown away with what a wonderful cigar this was! By far the best Perdomo I had ever had…it was and still is one of the best cigars I’ve ever smoked. After about 3 or 4 of these, I was convinced I had to have more. Visiting JRCigar, I purchased 4 boxes…which they promptly canceled due to lack of inventory. And since June of 2005 they have had nothing but the wussy lancero size in stock. Well, I finally resolved myself to the fact that there may never be anything but the Lancero size of these again and I should just buy them.

ISOM by Perdomo Review I purchased a box of ISOM Lanceros for $35 of a JRAuction. They arrived with all the great aroma I remembered, but without the plume. Sadly, after smoking one of these I was disappointed. It lacked the perfect balance between sweet and spicy that the torpedos had. It was missing any true power of the original. It tasted like the dollar cigar I had thought the torpedos would have been a year ago.

Maybe my pallet has matured/changed over the past year, but I’ve heard other’s on the cigar boards talking about the once great ISOM from Perdomo that JR had on special in June 05. Interestingly, early accounts of the ISOM talk about it being an awful cigar. I think the lot from a year ago had been perfectly aged and stored to produce the perfect plume and unfortunately no more are to be found any where…

I’ll try to enjoy my remaining 22 ISOM Lanceros and recall the faint hints of a once great gar.

LT Rating 2006 Lancero:
LT Rating 2005 Torpedo: