Lumberg
Opus Lover
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So I have been a fan of the Preferidos Line of cigars from La Aurora for a while now, and I've come to the conclusion that the Maduros are my favorite. I've also tried the Corojo and the Cameroon. The tubos are these cool perfecto-shaped aluminum(?) canisters that cloak the cigar and perhaps provide some semblance of extra humidity guard. They seem airtight.
La Aurora has also just come out with the "Sapphire" tubos which are blue and have a COnnecticut Shade wrapper. I haven't tried them and am not particularly interested in trying them.
This cigar is very fragrant. I've at times smoked cigars that had a floral, very prefumey profile and this is one of them. Just strong enough to notice but not enough to turn you off and make you think the damn thing was dipped in a bottle of some cheap knockoff perfume!
The predominant flavor I can taste out of it (stronger than the perfume which is more of an undertone) is, surprise surprise, coffee. The perfecto shape definitely adds a complexity to the flavor in that the first third, middle, and last third are like smoking three different cigars. On most of these my favorite is either the first third or the middle, where the true and full character of the cigar are fully revealed. Once you get past the "hump" the flavor just gets harsh because you are smoking the built-up byproducts from the first two thirds...all the stuff that got filtered out by the last third of tobacco..if the first two thirds are good, then I guess what was getting filtered out was the bad part, so once the cigar gets into the last third you're filtering less and smoking more byproducts, that in the case of many perfectos is a bad thing. Definitely true for me when i smoked the Corojo I got in the wish list pass.
SO anyway this cigar surprised me in that the blend of the tobacco is pretty well balanced. The sweetness of the maduro wrapper I think ameliorates the harshness and you can smoke it for longer before the harshness takes over. So instead of the last 1/3 sucking, maybe it's only that last 1/4 or so, a which point it's about time to put it out anyway.
One complaint is that the damn ash was not durable AT ALL and kept falling off at the most importune times. I think the ash on the Don tomas I smoked before (see candela review) was MUCH more durable. But then again this is 1 1/2 beers later so that could have something to do with it.
no numerical ratings. i think the damn ashes falling off all over the place will make my numbers too biased. Burn was even just, weak ash. Time to break out the ^&*_# vacuum.
La Aurora has also just come out with the "Sapphire" tubos which are blue and have a COnnecticut Shade wrapper. I haven't tried them and am not particularly interested in trying them.
This cigar is very fragrant. I've at times smoked cigars that had a floral, very prefumey profile and this is one of them. Just strong enough to notice but not enough to turn you off and make you think the damn thing was dipped in a bottle of some cheap knockoff perfume!
The predominant flavor I can taste out of it (stronger than the perfume which is more of an undertone) is, surprise surprise, coffee. The perfecto shape definitely adds a complexity to the flavor in that the first third, middle, and last third are like smoking three different cigars. On most of these my favorite is either the first third or the middle, where the true and full character of the cigar are fully revealed. Once you get past the "hump" the flavor just gets harsh because you are smoking the built-up byproducts from the first two thirds...all the stuff that got filtered out by the last third of tobacco..if the first two thirds are good, then I guess what was getting filtered out was the bad part, so once the cigar gets into the last third you're filtering less and smoking more byproducts, that in the case of many perfectos is a bad thing. Definitely true for me when i smoked the Corojo I got in the wish list pass.
SO anyway this cigar surprised me in that the blend of the tobacco is pretty well balanced. The sweetness of the maduro wrapper I think ameliorates the harshness and you can smoke it for longer before the harshness takes over. So instead of the last 1/3 sucking, maybe it's only that last 1/4 or so, a which point it's about time to put it out anyway.
One complaint is that the damn ash was not durable AT ALL and kept falling off at the most importune times. I think the ash on the Don tomas I smoked before (see candela review) was MUCH more durable. But then again this is 1 1/2 beers later so that could have something to do with it.
no numerical ratings. i think the damn ashes falling off all over the place will make my numbers too biased. Burn was even just, weak ash. Time to break out the ^&*_# vacuum.
