Quintero Petit Quinteros TEO May 18 (HLRC)

[nKostyan]

 

The cigar has a triangular section due to being compressed while in the bundle.

Aroma at cold: just tobacco and nothing more

This cigar is rolled from a short-filler sheet (tripa corta), which is why there are almost never no problems with draw, but it is devoid of the evolution of taste that gives a whole sheet. I suspect they are rolled without a mold, so have a bumpy wrapper.

Start: the cigar lit fairly well and surprisingly gives a good Cuban flavor, sweet tobacco, highly baked biscuits, sour, grass. Many smokers who try Quintero complain about the nasty taste of burnt cardboard... I didn't find yet anything like that in that cigar. Not very bad taste, has a good body and depth, salt added. Closer to the middle I can confirm that there is something remotely similar to the taste of cardboard, but this taste is not disgusting. In childhood we have all the items tasted: paper, cardboard, wood, grass, earth, coal.... now this experience helps us to identify the components of cigar taste. Ash blooms like flower petals, I made a panorama from all sides.

This is not surprising in such loose and not tight the structure of the Cigars. However, the cigar is burning fairly well, I never took the lighter to fix it. The cigar closer to the middle gives a lot of smoke and has become to bore me. Besides, there was a taste of burning. I have a queue and waits for a sufficient number of excellent cigars that I never tried, also vintage and aged Cigars. I'm sorry to waste time on this primitive linear cigar.

I bought this pack of cigars becouse it was my friends asked any cheap CC. These Cigars are cheap and they do not mind to treat fans of freebies or throw away if they do not like. At the same time, they are good in nature, for boozes pairing, in windy weather, when you just want to smoke and it is not possible to concentrate on the taste nuances. Of course these Cigars have their niche.

I will put this cigar 2/5 stars among all HSA cigars, but among the cheap HSA brands this cigar deserves 4/5 stars.