Paratagás Mille Fleur Single: Ode to the 40 and 42 review week

[Williamos]

Paratagás Mille Fleur

(Petite Corona, single, no box code)

 

I’m new to this whole review thing, so here goes.

 

Aroma at cold was a little grassy, pleasantly so.  This was a beautifully constructed cigar with a light Colorado wrapper and a box press.  My guillotine cut revealed a very nice draw and so it proved the whole smoke down.

 

This was certainly a cigar of thirds. 

 

1/3.  It started off grassy with very soft white pepper undertones, very smooth and creamy.  I could taste earth and leather and toasted tobacco.  Just when I was thinking how well this cigar would pair with a Laphroaig 10 year old single malt (what cigar wouldn’t?) I got a flash of flavour, fleeting, then gone.  This happened for much of the first third.  I couldn’t name it but it was there – something sweet and fruity, but in a dried out kind of way.  The body was medium.  It was proving to be a very enjoyable smoke with a terrific burn line.

 

Moving into the 2/3 now, the spine of the cigar asserted itself:  leather and pepper with the body becoming fuller, medium-full.  The ‘Cuban twang’ - I’ve understood this to mean leather and pepper.  So the twang was there bossing the flavour around.

 

3/3 Leather and pepper at the expense of everything else.  Medium-ful body with lots of smoke to the very end.

 

I must be smoking slowly at the moment as this clocked in at 90 minutes, I timed it.

 

It was only as I laid the cigar to rest, that it occurred to me.  That fleeting flavour at the start that I was searching for the rest of the cigar through:  dried peaches.   Dried peaches, not a flavour profile I’d not associate with Paratagás before.

 

This was a very good everyday cigar.  I’d certainly entertain the thought of buying a box.  Paratagás Mille Fleurs are said to age beautifully 5-10 years.  I suspect my cigar was fairly fresh.  Not that I’m complaining.

 

[awk6898]

Nice review. May have to pick up a box. How similar / dissimilar are they to their Petit Coronas Especiales?

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[irratebass]

Paratagás Mille Fleur

(Petite Corona, single, no box code)

 

I’m new to this whole review thing, so here goes.

 

Aroma at cold was a little grassy, pleasantly so.  This was a beautifully constructed cigar with a light Colorado wrapper and a box press.  My guillotine cut revealed a very nice draw and so it proved the whole smoke down.

 

This was certainly a cigar of thirds. 

 

1/3.  It started off grassy with very soft white pepper undertones, very smooth and creamy.  I could taste earth and leather and toasted tobacco.  Just when I was thinking how well this cigar would pair with a Laphroaig 10 year old single malt (what cigar wouldn’t?) I got a flash of flavour, fleeting, then gone.  This happened for much of the first third.  I couldn’t name it but it was there – something sweet and fruity, but in a dried out kind of way.  The body was medium.  It was proving to be a very enjoyable smoke with a terrific burn line.

 

Moving into the 2/3 now, the spine of the cigar asserted itself:  leather and pepper with the body becoming fuller, medium-full.  The ‘Cuban twang’ - I’ve understood this to mean leather and pepper.  So the twang was there bossing the flavour around.

 

3/3 Leather and pepper at the expense of everything else.  Medium-ful body with lots of smoke to the very end.

 

I must be smoking slowly at the moment as this clocked in at 90 minutes, I timed it.

 

It was only as I laid the cigar to rest, that it occurred to me.  That fleeting flavour at the start that I was searching for the rest of the cigar through:  dried peaches.   Dried peaches, not a flavour profile I’d not associate with Paratagás before.

 

This was a very good everyday cigar.  I’d certainly entertain the thought of buying a box.  Paratagás Mille Fleurs are said to age beautifully 5-10 years.  I suspect my cigar was fairly fresh.  Not that I’m complaining.

 

Nice review, glad I have 5 resting....gotta try em.

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[JohnS]

Laphroaig 10 year old...mmm, medicinal! Cheers for the review.

[TheMonk]

Very nice job for a first review!