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SLR Regios 01

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emodx

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A BOTL sent me this in the bombing run, so I decided to smoke it :thumbs: Good construction for the most part. A little on the soft side but no biggie. So I clip it and the draw was kinda loose like I half expected it to be. So I torch it and sat down for a couple more games of Sorry with my wife. While I was smoking it I had the pleasure of watch a nice lightning show frpm the storm rolling in of the ocean.

This one started of with a "dry" grassy flavor somewhat like some Cohiba's I have had. It gradually changed to a kinda nutty bean flavor. When I mean gradual, you couldn't tell where one flavor was stopping and the other begining which is definately a treat! It went out on me once for no apparent reason. Dunno why as I was smoking it a good pace. It did tunnel a little bit which corrected fine with a liberal dose of fire. The end was a little amonia flavor. I blew through the cigar which purged this flavor for about 5 minutes. When it came back I let it die on it's own.

This was a fairly mild Habana. I really enjoyed it despite it's youth. Even though it is kinda mild, I probably wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Habana's. There a lot of delicate flavors that some new smokers might not appreciate it.

Emo
 
remember back in the day when this used to be one of the fullest bodied havanas out there...up there with the Partagas D4...my how things have changed!

nice review emo :)

barney
 
Good review, and I will try to rember your advice on avoiding one of these for my first ISOM.

Matt
 
This was a fairly mild Habana.
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LOL! All this means to me is Emo is smoking lots of Havanas now and his Mild/Medium/Strong internal scale has adjusted accordingly. :D

I find the SLR's to be medium and rich and they are one of my favorites. :thumbs:
 
Funny, but it sounds as if you were sitting down to your SLR, I was sitting down to my own as well. I watched some thunderheads and lightning clouds roll in too as I sat high atop my city-facing balcony here on South Beach (one faces ocean, the other faces Miami). It looks like the lightning was focused over south/sw Miami, but it still put on a hell of show for us on SoBe.

Anyway, my SLR was actually quite good. Although, I think what contributed to its overall enjoyment was the 3 drams of Sea Wynde Rum (I opted for this since it had been awhile since I'd had any, and just wanted a change of pace from my usual single-malt, or my Ron Z., El Dorado 15 or Ron M.) I had previously consumed, while working on my fourth. Quite a good mix. Although, from your experience, I get a slight sense that you couldn't have been playing a more appropriate game than one entitled "Sorry." ;)
 
I just got some of the '01's and haven't had a chance to have one yet. I still have some of an older box..98 that I enjoyed although I can't ever say I have been blown away by the Regios. Thanks for the review, now I know what to look froward to.
 
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