Partagas 898 aum oct 2014 (PRW)

[duabley]

Cold draw is sourdough bread and cashew

1st draw-
Smooth tobacco, toasted sourdough and yep, bellpepper

1st 3rd-
The toasted sourdough is front and center with smooth semi sweet tobacco, bell pepper, and some sort of cooking spice coming up as the third burns on

2nd 3rd-
Was that a touch of clove?! I take another pull and its gone.
Much the same with more of the strange spice i cant identify.

Last 3rd-
The only developement is a mint note that comes in for a few puffs somewhere around the beginning of the 3rd but folds back into the toasty sourdough and tobacco. Sourcream was in my notes here as well

This box started out amazing and made me a thorough believer in this stick but over the last couple years its steadily made a turn for the worse. I enjoyed the smoke but its a shadow of what I remember it was. I will get another box at some point but I'll plan on smoking through the it in the 1st 3 years.

Score-
86/87

[cfc1016]

Give em a solid 10 years down. They need time.