Montecristo Petit Edmundo PUR DIC 2016 (MCRW)

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Three years of age in and this box has been smoking like gangbusters since it arrived. On visual inspection, not one example had the ‘look’ of a great cigar (the idea is pretty ill founded and has little merit to it, but we all know what we think). They have a matte, slightly pale look to them. But the smell of the uncut cigar is deep with leather and aged wood.

 

Lighting was easy and smoke production from the first to the last voluminous. Great flavors of medium cacao, coffee, and some mild baking spices. The spices faded in favor of more cacao and deep floral notes. Some reviewers have said it has a sense of a Chinese aged tea and that’s not wrong. Its floral notes are not the perfume of youth but something older and more refined. Like a pressed flower.

 

It has power for days— it ramps hard in the last third but was stronger than expected from my memory of these but was very enjoyable. Last third was denser. Ashier. I think this last third could use a bit of time (if they survive my greedy hands) to differentiate the flavors and yield up the ashy quality of the taste.  Still, an absolute gem. Coming into its prime. I put it at 93/94.