Popular Post thedame007 Posted January 12, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2019 San Cristobal la Punta: TOS MAR 17 Well this baby had the most alluring wrapper, slightly glistening with good old tobacco grease! Draw: firm but free; a bit like breathing heavily through a pillow (we’ve all been there right...?!). Perfect. Pretoasting Notes: Cedar mixed with a Proustian jolt of a frying pan long after the pancakes have been tossed - burnt sugar and butter. MAGIC POINT: I know a cigar is going to be a treat when the wrapper gives the tongue a salty kiss; the lips puckering like a cats anus brushing a little too close to the nettles. The salvia glands are already in full swing, and it’s time to light this sucker up! Tasting Notes: A strong espresso coffee gets the party underway, and soon enough it’s joined by a gorgeous burnt sweetness. Vanilla pops in and out, along with creamy woods, and milk chocolate. For me the transitions were not noticeable, for which I am pleased, for the flavours were impeccable. For some this smoke is like maple syrup and pancakes, but for me it reminded me of a dirty chai latte - coffee, vanilla, chocolate, and a lingering salty sweetness. I know that this box is not going to last the year! Medium body throughout, with no peppery spices to hinder the retro hale. The finish was long, the flavours coating my mouth long after the cigar was but embers. But I guess the true measure of its finish is in its ability to linger long into my memory, and temps me to reach for just one more... 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derboesekoenig Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, thedame007 said: the lips puckering like a cats anus brushing a little too close to the nettles. You're a wordsmith if ever there was one. Bravo I have yet to have a cigar from this brand I haven't enjoyed. Love them all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99call Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, thedame007 said: the lips puckering like a cats anus brushing a little too close to the nettles. W H Auden has met his match 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99call Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 what are the odds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99call Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 9 minutes ago, thedame007 said: dirty chai latte Interesting pick. I've only had this kind of Cardomom hit with EDRM before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedame007 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, 99call said: Interesting pick. I've only had this kind of Cardomom hit with EDRM before. The only other time I’ve had it was with a Hoyo Grand Epicure. But only one of them, the rest so far have yet to rekindle that feat. I am hoping the rest of my Puntas do not become my very own madeleine, and I get lost searching for something that once was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucko8 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Great review mate. Job well done. I have yet to try this cigar, though have some in the box ready for action. Look forward to them now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillys Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowsmoke Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 6 hours ago, thedame007 said: The only other time I’ve had it was with a Hoyo Grand Epicure. But only one of them, the rest so far have yet to rekindle that feat. I am hoping the rest of my Puntas do not become my very own madeleine, and I get lost searching for something that once was! Great review My first La Punta was from the new to cubans sampler, unknown box code. It was amazing. I now have a box of TOS MAR 17 just like yours, and they’ve been a bit of a ride. A few studs, a few duds, but none have quite recaptured that magic yet. I plan to keep trying! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayepatz Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 7 hours ago, thedame007 said: I am hoping the rest of my Puntas do not become my very own madeleine, and I get lost searching for something that once was! 8 hours ago, thedame007 said: But I guess the true measure of its finish is in its ability to linger long into my memory Did you read it in French or in translation? I gather there are two translations, one more literal than the other. I really need to get around to reading it. Alas “Le singe est sur la branche” is about my level. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedame007 Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 1 hour ago, slowsmoke said: Great review My first La Punta was from the new to cubans sampler, unknown box code. It was amazing. I now have a box of TOS MAR 17 just like yours, and they’ve been a bit of a ride. A few studs, a few duds, but none have quite recaptured that magic yet. I plan to keep trying! I feel this is all part of the fun of smoking Cubans - even from the same box you’re going to get multiple smoking experiences. Which can be both frustrating, and also a lot of fun! May I wish you all the best for your continual quest, sir! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedame007 Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 1 hour ago, ayepatz said: Did you read it in French or in translation? I gather there are two translations, one more literal than the other. I really need to get around to reading it. Alas “Le singe est sur la branche” is about my level. ? It’s safe to say with my C in French GCSE that I did not read Proust in French ? Last year I also got round to reading “if proust was a neuroscientist” - which is a very interesting book, and in particular I really loved the notion on ‘confabulation’, and how memory rewrites and constructs their own ‘reality’, so we can find ourselves chasing the memory of something that never was. The whole thing links to my geekly love for post-modernism/structuralism theory and ideas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc1016 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 9 hours ago, thedame007 said: The salvia glands are already in full swing Wait... were you smoking tobacco... or was this a different kinda journey? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedame007 Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 17 minutes ago, cfc1016 said: Wait... were you smoking tobacco... or was this a different kinda journey? ? Well to say I've just come from your review where you were knee deep in psychedelic chills, I think only one of us has visited their ancestors on a 'spirit walk'! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc1016 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 1 minute ago, thedame007 said: Well to say I've just come from your review where you were knee deep in psychedelic chills, I think only one of us has visited their ancestors on the a 'spirit walk'! It would seem I've walked that road enough that I now find myself perpetually straddling it. I, uhhh... made the most of my 20s. My father (the writer) and his father-in-law (the law professor) were sitting around once commiserating about the ailments and aches that seem to inevitably accompany aging. I was maybe 8 years old. I'm listening to what sounded like terrible premonitions of what was to come later in my life (turned out to be true). Once there was a break in the conversation, I got my dad's attention. "Father, I wish to embrace youth while it lasts." His father-in-law's eyes bug out as he turns to my father and says "Chris... that is YOUR son". I certainly followed through on that wish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedame007 Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 10 minutes ago, cfc1016 said: It would seem I've walked that road enough that I now find myself perpetually straddling it. I, uhhh... made the most of my 20s. My father (the writer) and his father-in-law (the law professor) were sitting around once commiserating about the ailments and aches that seem to inevitably accompany aging. I was maybe 8 years old. I'm listening to what sounded like terrible premonitions of what was to come later in my life (turned out to be true). Once there was a break in the conversation, I got my dad's attention. "Father, I wish to embrace youth while it lasts." His father-in-law's eyes bug out as he turns to my father and says "Chris... that is YOUR son". I certainly followed through on that wish. I do not know if this was a dreamscape parable where the 'creative' and 'analytical' hemispheres of the brain are in moot, or if this actually happened - which is fantastic! But you are quite correct, life is for the living, and we must each figure out how it is we want to live it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc1016 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, thedame007 said: I do not know if this was a dreamscape parable where the 'creative' and 'analytical' hemispheres of the brain are in moot, or if this actually happened - which is fantastic! But you are quite correct, life is for the living, and we must each figure out how it is we want to live it! Though I will admit to quite a few experiences of ego death, and anthropomorphism of spirits and such, the previous anecdote was entirely real ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMonk Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Very nice review! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissPEP Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Yummy Review Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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