MonkeyK
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Very well presented cigar. Beyond the cedar wrapper with the red satin foot, the cigar is nicley built with a dark powerfull looking wrapper and very evenly shaped firm. However it was Huge, which I found intimidated after my getting ass handed to me by an AF Cuban Beli Sungrown the week before.
So with some trepidation, I clipped the pyramid top to about 2/3 of the total width and toasted the foot. Within 2 puffs I knew this would be good.
The cigar produced a good volume of smoke with a rich sweet flavor that reminded me of the last cigar I smoked while drinking a glass of port (ERDM Flor de Llaneza with Warres 1977). I mean the cigar tasted like the flavors of the cigar married with the port. This flavor stayed pretty much the same for the length of the smoke.
The taste got me thinking about fruit and I happen to have a (full) raspberry bush in my back yard, so I picked a few and tried eating raspberries between puffs. That was sublime: the juicy tartness of the berries seemed to bring out the flavor of the cigar in ways that the glass of water I was drinking before could not compare to.
Not wanting to repeat my illness of the week before, I let the cigar go at about 2 1/2 - 3 inches left.
This was a great experience. Some time, I'll run across some smaller Anejos (I think a 46 or a 50 is more my size) and add them to my collection.
edit: Moki has pointed out to me that this cigar was actually an Anejo 55.
So with some trepidation, I clipped the pyramid top to about 2/3 of the total width and toasted the foot. Within 2 puffs I knew this would be good.
The cigar produced a good volume of smoke with a rich sweet flavor that reminded me of the last cigar I smoked while drinking a glass of port (ERDM Flor de Llaneza with Warres 1977). I mean the cigar tasted like the flavors of the cigar married with the port. This flavor stayed pretty much the same for the length of the smoke.
The taste got me thinking about fruit and I happen to have a (full) raspberry bush in my back yard, so I picked a few and tried eating raspberries between puffs. That was sublime: the juicy tartness of the berries seemed to bring out the flavor of the cigar in ways that the glass of water I was drinking before could not compare to.
Not wanting to repeat my illness of the week before, I let the cigar go at about 2 1/2 - 3 inches left.
This was a great experience. Some time, I'll run across some smaller Anejos (I think a 46 or a 50 is more my size) and add them to my collection.
edit: Moki has pointed out to me that this cigar was actually an Anejo 55.
