QUAI D’ORSAY IMPERIALES MUR MAR 13 (CRW)

[cigaraholic]

Beautiful looking cigar with a deep chestnut brown wrapper. It feels a little light in my hand but it’s not badly filled at 13.9g. I was lucky to have a good supply of these, they seem to disappear just a few days after going on the dodo bird list.

It opened with a lovely chocolate graham cracker malt flavor, a little under medium body. A few minutes later it went to sleep for a few puffs, woke up with mouth coating honey and ginger. Then it did something I wasn’t expecting, got very savory, like chinese roasted duck. I’ve smoked almost half this box but this is the first one that’s taken me to lunch. 1 hr in and it goes back to chocolate, toasted tobacco and vanilla cream for a few puffs. Then right back to savory, but now it’s tea smoked duck. Last few puffs are bittersweet chocolate. This was a very exotic cigar, a wonderful hour and a half. I kept wishing I was smoking this cigar after Dim Sum instead of after a ruff night with a Cognac bottle?

[Baccy]

Yea these are great, one of my favorites, if not my favorite... I have some from LRE 09 which are amazing, and a couple from ULA 14 which I have not yet sampled but look and smell just gorgeous! Can't wait... but I will?