Gifted by a friend.
Location: This review was made indoors in a cigar lounge.
Information:
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Origin: Honduras
Factory: Rocky Patel (Honduras)
Box: Sold in 20 count boxes.
Release: 2012
Availability: Limited Release
Size: 6×54, Toro.
Wrapper: Coffee bean brown, smooth with small veins.
Construction: Fairly firm and even feel when lightly squeezed.
Cold draw: Cedarwood and wheat.
1st third: Starts with toasted bread, dark roasted coffee, oakwood bark and a faint hint of a nutty tone in the background.
2nd third: Unchanged.
Burn: Burns fairly sharp with a firm and stable white-ish ash.
Smoke: Voluminous smoke with a medium heat feel on the tongue with a medium light draw.
3rd third: The coffee note is the prominent flavour note in this final third.
Duration: 18:15-19:40, 1h 25min
Conclusion: A medium bodied cigar with a medium strength profile. A well performed cigar but a little flat on the complexity level, wanted a little more change up.
Result: In my book this is a 89 point cigar.
/Cigar Reviewer André

