Cigar review Monte 2 RAO Jun 06

[gigabyte056]

Cigar review:

Monte No.2

Box code: RAO Jun 06

Paired with Nick O'Leary Shiraz from 2008 , very good wine for the money.

Review date 4/6/2011

Had a long day of work in the garden so thought I should reward myself with one of the aged cigars,pictures are taken with cell as I was to beat to actually get the real camera...

A Monte 2 is stellar when it's on, had a bit of fear this won't be on since the last one I smoked from this box was plugged and I gave up on it after 5 minutes.

This was not the case with this puppy.

Wrapper:

chocolate marbled to perfection...

Aroma at cold:

Ceder with a touch of hay

Draw is perfect, used a cutter to cut on angle as per Rob's example and it actually does make a difference, at least psychologically...

initial tastes are toasted coffee and spice with a leather after taste in the back of my mouth.

first 1/3:

Expresso with a touch of sweet cream and vanilla.

maybe like a strong cappuccino with some vanila stick and Cinnamon sprinkled on it....

Second 1/3:

More coffee , a bit stronger, ceder comes out and some intresting bitter sweet taste.

The cinammon and vanilla are there but they slightly give way to burnt sugar.

last 1/3:

Cigar becomes quite strong, quite a lot of punch to it, got a very strong nicotine buzz.

still coffee minus the cream, with cinnamon spice and wood/leather mix .

finished in glory with some caramel after taste.

I rank it at a 92.

I don't usually pair cigars and red wine but the wine really went well with the cigar and the case I got will be

kept for another 3 years to accompany good cigars.

Apologies for the double post, posted first in the review section.

[CUBANO]

Thanks for the review.

[thechenman]

This post looks oddly familiar...

[Ghabanos]

Nice. Thnx

[headstand]

Mine are tasty, but still young - I look forward to their evolution. Hope they turn out as well as yours.