PL ENCANTOS URGMAR11 (MPQRW)

[cigaraholic]

For me this cigar was an absolute no brainer RE, I love PL and my favorite size cigar is lonsdale/ dalias. In the last 10 years I have bought more of this cigar than any other, I joke it’s my breakfast of champions. I’m trying to smoke less, but I do love a mid morning cigar with coffee and PL puts cream in their cigars like I do in my coffee. This is one cigar I didn’t lay down for a rest, I’m sure I smoked one the day I received my first box and have never stopped, so I’m very familiar with it. Being Father’s Day I’m having a Sir Winston with my iced coffee this morning, something I could get use to, just need to rob a couple more banks. I smoked the Encantos yesterday morning.

Beautiful looking cigar with a deep colorado wrapper, draw seems good. First puff is sweet buttery toffee, next puff I get coffee and the third puff I get a woody flavor. I’m use to getting wood in a young PL, but this is the woodiest Encantos I’ve ever experienced. Many of the young Encantos I smoked were dripping with honey, this is smoking like a young Valiosos. The body is well over medium, with a woody flavor and a toffee finish. A little before half way as the cigar warms up I feel it, a big soft spot below the band. I’m smoking a under filled cigar. I realize I didn’t weigh the cigar before smoking it, but I have my boxes arranged according to weight so this shouldn’t happen. So much for my QC! I had pulled 3 from a box I’m smoking and put them in my easy grab desktop, so I checked the other 2....9.6 grams, a little over 2 grams light, so I had put the 3 lightest cigars in my desktop. Now I know why I got light coffee, toffee and lots of wood. I can’t figure out how the lightweights got into my smoking box....I guess it’s just me being me and old age.  I don’t think it’s fair to the cigar to review one that’s under weight, it’s been a long time since I haven’t checked the weight before smoking a cigar to review. Hopefully it won’t happen again ?

[Fuzz]

I really wish HSA would make this a regular production cigar. I have too few left.