Vegas Robaina Famosos 2018 (TRQVRW)

[RDB]

Great looking PSP example from ARS AGO 18. These were darker just six months ago, but it’s still on the maduro side of colorado. Draw is loose though.

Very interesting smoke. Initial flavours are a fruity dark chocolate. I don’t get prune, more a sort of deep orange flavour. Then a sudden ‘pop’ transition at the end of the first third: sweet, perfume flavours like lavender, roses, violets arrive. Like fancy Italian dark chocolate confectionary. I’m sucking the smoke back in to taste it.

The burn is not great though. Uneven and doesn’t really want to stay lit. Needs smoking quite fast to keep everything warm and flavourful and ticking along. Thank god the body is not too strong, or I’d be whacked by the nicotine. As it is I still get buzzed.

Those perfumed confectionary flavours hang on though. It’s really unlike anything else. Maybe the closest is a particularly good Punch Punch, but it’s even more exotic than that. Towards the end a dark roasted coffee flavour starts coming in, and I’ve had enough nicotine just before the band.

Good stuff. Apart from the burn, it doesn’t feel too early. I have only one more of these, then a full box from ARS MAR 19. I wonder what will happen as they get older?