1992 Grisel Palais Royal Cabinet Selection
Country:Cuba
Size:Corona length, Churchill ring gauge, but not as fat as a Toro... I guess it could be a short Churchill by definition. I should have measured it.
Color:A very light brown wrapper. Slightly darker than a Connecticut Shade Grown Wrapper.
Taste:The first third was very light floral flavor w/ a little Cohiba-esque grassy notes. Very elegant nose and taste. The lightness and refined taste is exactly what you would expect from a 14 year old cigar.
The second third this baby picked up the pace. The light floral taste retreated when the burnt leather arrived. As the new taste was welcome, the grassiness also picked up strentgh also.
As the sencond third was segueing into the last third, the grassiness finally bowed out to a black licorice flavor. Again, the flavor started off slowly, but as the cigar started to burn hotter, the licorice flavor hit like a locomotive. I smoked another inch and a half before letting it die out w/ two inches left.
The wrapper was very thin and it craked in a couple different places as I smoked it. Also, I had to touch it up twice. The touch ups and the the fact it was burning hot was my fault as I was a touch pre-occupied to give it %100 attention to smoke it correctly.
Setting: I had just finished Easter dinner, and the little lady sent me down stairs to hide Easter Eggs. Originally, this cigar was meant to be smoked at my 10 year High School reunion. Seeing as how I was deployed in '02 during my reunion, this baby stayed in the fridgedor for a few more years. So I grab it along w/ my Xikar and torch, tell my oldest son to grab the eggs, and head out the door.
My apartment faces west and is right on the Intercoastal. So when I get downstairs, I sit down in my plastic chair to clip it and light it before hiding eggs. The sun was setting over the intercoastal. Perfect ambience. The area Austin and I hid the eggs is like a small lawn area and tropical reflection area. So I smoked the first half while sipping a Heiniken and hideing eggs.
The second half was smoked as the kids came down to look for eggs. We made them sit still for a couple minutes to build the excitement. Turned them loose while the last sliver of sun was above the horizon. Good times!
Interesting note: I dissected the last little bit of the butt. The cigar had 2 tissue thin wrappers over it. These wrappers are nothing like anything I have seen out of Cuba recently. But they are like the wrappers that are on the old Montes, just lighter.
-Emo
Country:Cuba
Size:Corona length, Churchill ring gauge, but not as fat as a Toro... I guess it could be a short Churchill by definition. I should have measured it.
Color:A very light brown wrapper. Slightly darker than a Connecticut Shade Grown Wrapper.
Taste:The first third was very light floral flavor w/ a little Cohiba-esque grassy notes. Very elegant nose and taste. The lightness and refined taste is exactly what you would expect from a 14 year old cigar.
The second third this baby picked up the pace. The light floral taste retreated when the burnt leather arrived. As the new taste was welcome, the grassiness also picked up strentgh also.
As the sencond third was segueing into the last third, the grassiness finally bowed out to a black licorice flavor. Again, the flavor started off slowly, but as the cigar started to burn hotter, the licorice flavor hit like a locomotive. I smoked another inch and a half before letting it die out w/ two inches left.
The wrapper was very thin and it craked in a couple different places as I smoked it. Also, I had to touch it up twice. The touch ups and the the fact it was burning hot was my fault as I was a touch pre-occupied to give it %100 attention to smoke it correctly.
Setting: I had just finished Easter dinner, and the little lady sent me down stairs to hide Easter Eggs. Originally, this cigar was meant to be smoked at my 10 year High School reunion. Seeing as how I was deployed in '02 during my reunion, this baby stayed in the fridgedor for a few more years. So I grab it along w/ my Xikar and torch, tell my oldest son to grab the eggs, and head out the door.
My apartment faces west and is right on the Intercoastal. So when I get downstairs, I sit down in my plastic chair to clip it and light it before hiding eggs. The sun was setting over the intercoastal. Perfect ambience. The area Austin and I hid the eggs is like a small lawn area and tropical reflection area. So I smoked the first half while sipping a Heiniken and hideing eggs.
The second half was smoked as the kids came down to look for eggs. We made them sit still for a couple minutes to build the excitement. Turned them loose while the last sliver of sun was above the horizon. Good times!
Interesting note: I dissected the last little bit of the butt. The cigar had 2 tissue thin wrappers over it. These wrappers are nothing like anything I have seen out of Cuba recently. But they are like the wrappers that are on the old Montes, just lighter.
-Emo
