Store bought at Mellgrens Fine Tobacco.
Location: This review was made indoors in Mellgrens cigar lounge.
Information:
Plasencia Reserva 1898 vaunts its goodness in every way. The leaves are derived from the finest tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Honduras.
Size: 6 3/4×52, Toro.
Wrapper: Coffee bean, oily and silky-smooth with tiny veins.
Construction: Firm even feel when lightly squeezed.
Cold draw: Oakwood and walnut.
1st third: Starts with a walnut, sweet earthy note with oakwood in the background.
2nd third: It eveolves with a note of milk chocolate added.
Burn: Burns fairly sharp, with a firm and stable white ash.
Smoke: Voluminous white smoke with a cool feeling on the tongue and a light draw.
3rd third: Keeps it’s flavours from previous parts.
Duration: 22:25-23:25, 1h.
Conclusion: A medium bodied cigar with a medium strength profile.
Result: In my book this is an 90 point cigar.
/Cigar Reviewer André