Montecristo Dantes EL 2016 SUM OCT 16 (VVL)

[havanaclub]

Haven’t had one of these in a while so I was excited to see how they are coming along.
Paired this with SDC 12.
 

 
Started off all cocoa and very sweet. I don’t recall this cigar having that amount of sweetness. Beginning to think as I type this that it was the rum. Medium strength.
Into the second third I started to get the classic coffee/ cocoa monte EL and these have definitely smoothed out. My last sample probably almost a year ago had some rough edges and pepper. Not much pepper at all in this sample. Was getting some barnyard like notes which reminded me of a nica stick... interesting.
Last third picked up in body to higher end of medium and was all chocolate.
 
All in all it was a very good cigar, however somewhat linear. I was wanting a little more complexity with it. I really think these will improve with time to help them balance out and pick up more flavours.
 
Burn and construction was flawless. Absolutely no touch ups.
 
Score 91.
 
Cheers FoH.
 
 
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[mtd057]

Well done, this is one of my favorite cigars

[Raskol]

Nice pictures & great review. Thank you! Brent

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[joeypots]

Thanks for this review. I've been wondering how the Dantes EL were coming along. Well done. 

[havanaclub]

Thanks for this review. I've been wondering how the Dantes EL were coming along. Well done. 

Thanks! I am glad I got a nice HQ box untouched aging.


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[Chucko8]

These are fantastic sticks in my humble opinion and can't wait to delve in again in another years time

[Franko]

I love this smoke my friend..
even tho I smoked it fresh, time to revisit..


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[Guantanamera]

Nice review! I agree that the sweetness is coming from the rum. SDC 12 seems very sweet to me.

[Tollickd]

Great review glad to see so many people revisiting old EL editions!


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