Partagas Shorts 2010 (MPCRW)*

[CaptainQuintero]

  Treating myself with one of these as a reward for a long week of just old fashioned back slogging work in the garden lifting stumps, digging up turf and shifting a lot of soil, not to mention the infamous washing line post!

  I haven't touched this box for probably 4/5 years but now I've finished the last of my Tres Petit Corona this seems as good an opportunity as any.

  Perfect draw, nice oily wrapper.

  First third takes a little while to get going, it's rich but not much more than good quality tobacco. A tad disappointing. I wish I could add more but this is all I'm being given ?

  Second third and it's finally got going, reasonably unforgivable in such a small cigar, but at least it's here now. Medium full in body, lots of buttered leather, toffee/butterscotch notes too. No cream at all, given the age I usually find Partagas gets bucket loads.

  Final third and the butterscotch has gone, just back to leather and decent tobacco. It's certainly not bad but it's not going to win any prizes for personality and greatness; utterly one dimensional. I've found the Clive Owen of cigars 

  85/100?

  It's been marked down purely on the fact that the standards are usually set so high, when it struggles to meet them then it's getting marked down more so than a regularly average cigar would get. I suppose the reverse of a cigar punching way above it's weight getting much better scores because it isn't supposed to reach greatness but has managed it. 

  I'm disappointed to say the least. It's one of those examples of everything on paper being right but it just not coming through on the day. 

 

 

 

 

[RDB]

Nice honest review. When I saw ‘2010 Party Short’ I thought: mmmm this is going to be good. But cigars are a fickle pleasure...

[HopeUgood]

Do you think the Party short was passed its prime?

[RDB]

A nine year old short should be lovely!

[CaptainQuintero]

1 hour ago, HopeUgood said:

Do you think the Party short was passed its prime?

  I don't think so, it was still very rich and had buckets of body. It just tasted like a blend of mostly filler/volado and not a huge amount of anything else. It didn't even particularly taste aged.

[HopeUgood]

1 hour ago, CaptainQuintero said:

  I don't think so, it was still very rich and had buckets of body. It just tasted like a blend of mostly filler/volado and not a huge amount of anything else. It didn't even particularly taste aged.

interesting, I have a couple boxes with 3 years on them. Maybe smoking through them is the right call if aging seems to add little to the shorts?

[CaptainQuintero]

6 hours ago, HopeUgood said:

interesting, I have a couple boxes with 3 years on them. Maybe smoking through them is the right call if aging seems to add little to the shorts?

  I always find ageing adds a lot to a cigar but that's just my tastes, Partagas is one of the brands most effected by age imo. This is just a bit of a dud stick sadly. 

  There's no harm in testing a box over the years though, it gives you a good idea of the process and where your tastes lie