Marco-Polo
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Cigar: El Rey Del Mundo
Size: Choix Supreme, 5x48
Exec Summary: Medium-bodied cuban cigar. Excellent flavor and aroma. Iffy construction. With good construction, would reach 9/10 easily; as is, 8/10.
Background: A gift/trade (swapped for a Partagas) from a good friend of mine upon graduating with our MBAs. This cigar was looking somewhat the worse for wear, so I decided to take it out and out of its misery today ... who am I kidding ... you don't need an excuse to smoke one. It just helps to justify it.
First Impressions: Wrapper is medium brown, a few very small veins. Rather wrinkly, and the wrapper appears to be quite thin and fragile. Wrapper split at the bottom. Well applied cap. Somewhat of a barnyard odor prelight.
Construction/Burn: Burn is even but required multiple turns to stay on the straight and narrow. Draw is tight but not plugged and remained tight throughout. Ash is light to dark grey, crumbly at the start and then holds on for a full inch. Went out while I wrote most of this, but relit readily. Keeps on going and going and going!
Flavor/Aroma: Aroma is spectacular, a sweet top note, a grassy, flowery middle note, a hazelnut or light coffee bottom note. Strength is a solid medium. A tangy note in the mouth, can't place it at all or anywhere. Very different from the other cubans I've tried (Montecristo No. 2, Partagas Mille Fleurs) and very pleasant. Evolves throughout the cigar, the sweet note deepening and becoming caramelly, the nuttiness increasing, and an earthy, peppery note coming in at the bottom. No harshness whatsoever, just an avalanche of flavors.
Time elapsed: 2 hrs
Size: Choix Supreme, 5x48
Exec Summary: Medium-bodied cuban cigar. Excellent flavor and aroma. Iffy construction. With good construction, would reach 9/10 easily; as is, 8/10.
Background: A gift/trade (swapped for a Partagas) from a good friend of mine upon graduating with our MBAs. This cigar was looking somewhat the worse for wear, so I decided to take it out and out of its misery today ... who am I kidding ... you don't need an excuse to smoke one. It just helps to justify it.
First Impressions: Wrapper is medium brown, a few very small veins. Rather wrinkly, and the wrapper appears to be quite thin and fragile. Wrapper split at the bottom. Well applied cap. Somewhat of a barnyard odor prelight.
Construction/Burn: Burn is even but required multiple turns to stay on the straight and narrow. Draw is tight but not plugged and remained tight throughout. Ash is light to dark grey, crumbly at the start and then holds on for a full inch. Went out while I wrote most of this, but relit readily. Keeps on going and going and going!
Flavor/Aroma: Aroma is spectacular, a sweet top note, a grassy, flowery middle note, a hazelnut or light coffee bottom note. Strength is a solid medium. A tangy note in the mouth, can't place it at all or anywhere. Very different from the other cubans I've tried (Montecristo No. 2, Partagas Mille Fleurs) and very pleasant. Evolves throughout the cigar, the sweet note deepening and becoming caramelly, the nuttiness increasing, and an earthy, peppery note coming in at the bottom. No harshness whatsoever, just an avalanche of flavors.
Time elapsed: 2 hrs
