Bolivar Inmensas 2002

[Bartolomeo]

-Maduro colored wrapper, box press, rough texture with some veins and oil spots

-Pre draw was just tobacco and very hollow feeling

-Aged leather comes to mind first when starting out on this cigar, cream as well

-First ½” of ash is almost White in color, I have yet to see a Cuban cigar with a White ash, turns to a light Grey afterwards

-Sort of a perfume-like smell early on, but not floral if that makes sense, along with the continued cream, spice and leather

-Cigar shows a lot of flavors but not deep flavors, more like just hitting the surface, almost like a tease of what’s there but never really showing you

-Leather/cream/mocha with the cigar surprisingly a Light-Medium profile, between the opening thirds

-Little bit of an un-even burn but nothing to worry about, its almost a shy cigar if you will

-Kind of like that beautiful girl that doen’t know it yet or is afraid to show it, all the pieces are there flavor wise but they never come out of their shell

-I know I can taste the nodes of the chocolate and leather and spices but sort of watered down or dare I say……Bland?

-Some cedar and Cinnamon towards the end

-I would like to try the same cigar in more recent production to see if the flavors are there a little more

-Its like the cigar never came full circle

-8.1/10

Bart