Cohiba Robusto unknown (49NRW)

[bkdash]

Cold but sunny day here in New England so naturally it's time for a lunch time smoke. Picked out a Cohiba Robusto that I've had in my humi for ~3ish years (received in a sampler from a BOTL).

Prelight I'm getting a nice sweet barnyard and the draw is perfect.

1/3: Getting sweet cream and cedar right off the bat. Mix in a light/mild cinnamon through the nose. As it get's heated up some light floral notes and a very welcomed baked bread note/aroma. Off to a great start!

2/3: Orange peel / citrus notes to go along with the sweet cream and cedar. Subtitle spice through the nose still. Throughout this section of the CoRo I keep tasting/thinking of those orange creamsicle pops I had when I was young and my god do I need a box of those in the freezer! 

3/3: More sweet cream and cedar but in comes an almond note. The orange/citrus is fleeting as the cigar is getting smaller. I do run into a wrapper blow out towards the last inch or so but I don't fault the cigar for that the weather isn't exactly ideal (got much worse than the picture shows).

Overall a very nice cigar and I understand why folks love these so much. This is only my 3rd CoRo and they're going on the "list" for sure. Do you guys think they're worth the new price of 500USD+?

Score 93/94

 

[SCgarman]

To  your question absolutely not. I thought they were overpriced at $350/box. Now for folks who can light their cigars with $100 bills, no worries. These cigars do become very good if you can tuck them away for 5 years. But not for me at the current overinflated prices.

[Kaptain Karl]

Are they worth it? It’s up to your individual situation IMO. Depends on how frequently you smoke and/or your income. I hope I’ll be at the place sooner rather than later where I can be smoking a 5-10 boxes of cohiba a year! 

[bkdash]

13 minutes ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Are they worth it? It’s up to your individual situation IMO. Depends on how frequently you smoke and/or your income. I hope I’ll be at the place sooner rather than later where I can be smoking a 5-10 boxes of cohiba a year! 

Yeah I'm working up to buying my first full box of Cohibas! Could be a Christmas gift to myself it's certainly been a hell of a year...

[Kaptain Karl]

12 minutes ago, bkdash said:

Yeah I'm working up to buying my first full box of Cohibas! Could be a Christmas gift to myself it's certainly been a hell of a year...

I bought my first this year...it’s definitely a hell of a self celebration gift!!

[vhampl03]

For me, it’s getting hard to justify the price differential between CoRo and a good BBF, D4, or Connie 1.  I mean, Cohiba is unique and tasty but is it almost 3x better than the ones I’ve listed?....not sure.

YMMV, but for me if Im paying $21-22 per stick I’m trending Trinidad nowadays... Esmeralda or Topes is hard to beat...

[PuroDiario]

Great cigar. Are prices justified? On an absolute basis, maybe no - is any cigar’s price really justifiable on that end? Even a Partagas short along most petit smokes are tough to justify imho. But When you think of it on a relative basis as compared to other marcas and vitolas my take is absolutely yes.
 

So when you think of Cuban cigars, if you think of it from a craftsmanship, tobacco quality, history, the intrinsic qualities of the product both measurable and not measurable, the years of experience it takes to a roller to get to the top, etc. probably all are justifiable, you are smoking art and history and in this form it is ephemeral...and Cohiba is the top of that. 
 

also, the argument of 10 years ago these cost less...I think is getting old. 10 years ago I could buy a coffee in Spain for 50cents and now the neighborhood cafe charges 1.5-€2.5 for a cortado. Don’t even ask me the cost of a latte in NY now vs 10 years ago. Where is demand there is price inflation...and its many of us US based adding to that price inflation now more exacerbated via online media facilitating purchases and access to information hence faster discovery process.

my 2cents..?

[Connoisseur Kim]

Personally, I'm big fan of CORO as one of the greatest CC Robustos. So, I think it's still worth to buy a CORO box even though the recent price spike. BTW, the price of CORO in my country is already more than $500+ since few years ago (tobacco tax increase & distributor's Cohiba price increase announcement).