959. Davidoff Limited Edition 2025 Year of the Snake

Bought from Cubano, Sweden.

Location: This review was made indoors in a cigar lounge.

Information:
Wrapper: Ecuador
Binder: Ecuador
Filler: Dominican Republic San Vicente Hybrid seed 98 & Mexican Negro San Andrés
Origin: Dominican Republic

Factory: Cigars Davidoff (Dominican Republic)
Box: Sold in 10 count boxes.
Release: 2024
Availability: Limited Edition of 17.500 boxes of 10 cigars.

Size: 7×43, Lancero.

Wrapper: Mahogany wood brown, oily and smooth texture with tiny veins.

Construction: A little giving but even feel when lightly squeezed.

Cold draw: Cedar and oakwood.

1st third: Burnt gingerbread, burnt sugar, creamy milk chocolate.

2nd third: Notes of roasted and buttered chestnuts, cacao added to the mix.

Burn: Burns sharp with a firm and stable white-ish ash.

Smoke: Medium voluminous smoke with a medium heat feel on the tongue with a medium light draw.

3rd third: Unchanged from part 2.

Duration: 16:00-17:30, 1h 30min.

Conclusion: A full bodied cigar with a medium to full strength profile. Good complexity and flavourful profile but it was tough to keep it going if I let it go for a moment.

Result: In my book this is a 91 point cigar.

/Cigar Reviewer André