Wurm
Bratwurst and Beer
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Price: 9 US Dollars and up
Tobacco: Nicaragua 7 farm blend, no further info on the Drew Estates website
Size: Toro
Stored: 63.4°F / 65%Rh
Today being a beautiful day in Germany I decided to go down to my cellar and grab a cigar that I've been wanting to try since I heard about them here.
I'd like to send a big shout out of thanks to Nico for sending me this cigar as part of the "Make a Wish" thread :thumbs:
Glorious Sunshine covered by white fluffy clouds.
And hot... (that's around 95 degree Fahrenheit (in the shade!) for you metric disabled folks out there).
Now down to brass tacks...
A quick clip with my Palio (my Xikar is in the shop getting sharpened)
and a view of the foot shows how well rolled this cigar is.
The cigar band is a prefect example of pure understated elegance, I thought it was extremely classy the first time I looked upon it. The small grey text states (as far as my limited Spanish allows me to translate) "Made exclusively for the boss".
The other side of the band shows a lion rampant (thrills my Scottish heart) with the number 9, and if you look closely at the cigar wrapper you can see the tons of "cigar pimples" that this entire cigar wrapper was covered in.
Lit up, I noticed immediately a subtle but sweet flavor that took me a while to pin-point but when I did it hit me like a ton of bricks. Cocoa-butter and coconut milk, sounds strange doesn't it? But rest insured I ENJOYED this flavor, it was a nice departure from all the spice and leather most of my cigars impart. Also the cigar burnt with one of the whitest ashes I have ever encountered, in fact the ash was almost the same shade as the band. A marketing executive couldn't have dreamed this up any better. I only hope I was able to capture this in the following picture.
The flavors stayed the same throughout the cigar, and when I knocked off the ash I noticed that the wrapper ash was bright white, the binder ash a dark grey and the filler ash a light grey almost white.
The #9 provided a ton of (you guessed it) white smoke and I found myself exhaling through the nose (something I'm not a big fan of) to capture the flavor. I also found myself pressing my tounge to the roof of my mouth to let the taste linger.
So how much did I enjoy my first (and not last!) Liga Privada No. 9? Well I'll let the final picture of this series answer that question for me...
Haven't tried one? I suggest that you do, I'm already saving up for a box.
Oh and I have to add a shameless plug for my new camera the Canon Powershot A590 IS I'm still learning how to use it, but its heads and shoulders above my old Kodak 3.0MP!
Hope you enjoyed the review,
Shawn
*edit to fix a broken picture
Tobacco: Nicaragua 7 farm blend, no further info on the Drew Estates website
Size: Toro
Stored: 63.4°F / 65%Rh
Today being a beautiful day in Germany I decided to go down to my cellar and grab a cigar that I've been wanting to try since I heard about them here.
I'd like to send a big shout out of thanks to Nico for sending me this cigar as part of the "Make a Wish" thread :thumbs:
Glorious Sunshine covered by white fluffy clouds.
And hot... (that's around 95 degree Fahrenheit (in the shade!) for you metric disabled folks out there).
Now down to brass tacks...
A quick clip with my Palio (my Xikar is in the shop getting sharpened)
and a view of the foot shows how well rolled this cigar is.
The cigar band is a prefect example of pure understated elegance, I thought it was extremely classy the first time I looked upon it. The small grey text states (as far as my limited Spanish allows me to translate) "Made exclusively for the boss".
The other side of the band shows a lion rampant (thrills my Scottish heart) with the number 9, and if you look closely at the cigar wrapper you can see the tons of "cigar pimples" that this entire cigar wrapper was covered in.
Lit up, I noticed immediately a subtle but sweet flavor that took me a while to pin-point but when I did it hit me like a ton of bricks. Cocoa-butter and coconut milk, sounds strange doesn't it? But rest insured I ENJOYED this flavor, it was a nice departure from all the spice and leather most of my cigars impart. Also the cigar burnt with one of the whitest ashes I have ever encountered, in fact the ash was almost the same shade as the band. A marketing executive couldn't have dreamed this up any better. I only hope I was able to capture this in the following picture.
The flavors stayed the same throughout the cigar, and when I knocked off the ash I noticed that the wrapper ash was bright white, the binder ash a dark grey and the filler ash a light grey almost white.
The #9 provided a ton of (you guessed it) white smoke and I found myself exhaling through the nose (something I'm not a big fan of) to capture the flavor. I also found myself pressing my tounge to the roof of my mouth to let the taste linger.
So how much did I enjoy my first (and not last!) Liga Privada No. 9? Well I'll let the final picture of this series answer that question for me...
Haven't tried one? I suggest that you do, I'm already saving up for a box.
Oh and I have to add a shameless plug for my new camera the Canon Powershot A590 IS I'm still learning how to use it, but its heads and shoulders above my old Kodak 3.0MP!
Hope you enjoyed the review,
Shawn
*edit to fix a broken picture
) but was "OK"
Of course, it might get expensive for me after that, but such is life!!! Thanks again!
