Cohiba Corona Especiales PLM NOV 06 (CWRC ) *

[LGC]

 

I’ve only sampled one stick from the box quite a long time ago. I really don’t recall the details. I gifted one to a good friend a couple weeks ago, and he had all good things to say about it.

 

I retreated to the patio once the kids were quiet and down for the count. The cigar’s appearance was good, smooth Golden-Colorado wrapper... as all Cohibas should be. The cigar was well packed with no soft spots. The draw was perfect with a slight resistance. First light revealed some baking spices, herbal sweetness, and light cocoa flavor. Everyone likes to say grassiness, but I’m not seeing it. Grab a handful of grass (fescue, Bermuda, zoysia, centipede), rub it in your hands, and plant your nose in it. Tell me if that screams Cohiba. As the cigar settles in, the sweetness comes out as a more complex brown sugar/caramel quality. Lip smacking flavor for something that you’re not actually eating. The cocoa becomes more of a dark chocolate quality. The baking spices and herbal quality is still there and blends beautifully with the other flavors. Towards the end of the cigar, the sweetness transforms to more of a molasses type sweetness. The richness remains until the very end. I laid it to rest as soon as the heat became apparent.

 

 

Overall, a solid 4/5 rating. The cigar smoked and performed perfectly without touch ups.

[Islandboy]

Those of us who have smoked grass get it. ?

Nice review, thanks.