Chinese cigars

[nKostyan]

At the end of 2021, a sampler of Chinese cigars was handed over to our cigar club for testing:
 
- Great Wall Flourishing Age Miracle Robusto, belongs to the Flourishing Age line
 
- Great Wall 132 Petit Corona Flag Tail, belongs to the 132 line.
 

 
This Chinese cigar brand has been known for a long time, has a range of cigars. The company is represented on Twitter https://twitter.com/g_w_cigar, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/great_wall_cigar/ , as well as the site that I can not open www.greatwallcigar.cn

In 2011 Dmitry Drutsa published in his blog a brief overview article about the creation and intended goals of the Chinese cigar industry https://cigarrros.livejournal.com/70433.html

In recent years, publications about Chinese cigars have increasingly appeared in online publications:
https://www.cigarjournal.com/tag/great-wall-cigars/
https://letschinese.com/cigar-in-china/

I will not hide it, I am very interested to find out what heights Chinese cigar brands have reached. It is also interesting to hear the ratings of those who smoked cigars of Chinese brands.

In addition to the format, no additional data was found. Tobacco is unknown, the strength is not known.

I decided to start with a small one, the format is designated as Petit Corona RG42 x 3,625" and is very similar to Half Corona.

For comparison, I put HUHC and yes, they are very similar, but the Chinese has a pig's tail.

The construction is perfect: tightly rolled, the leaf is delicate and thin. The wrapper - is perfect Claro. The aroma is herbaceous, barely perceptible. It starts with a powerful herbal-pepper smoke of medium strength. Delicate puffs allow you to recognize cream and tobacco. The cigar allows long breaks between puffs without fading. It smokes for a long time - about 40 minutes. In general, it is not bad. Having no taste delights, it has a good smokiness, a lot of taste and an medium strength.

Conclusion: I am not a fan of peppery taste, but I did not cause rejection. I wouldn't buy this cigar on purpose, but I can smoke it on occasion.

Second Cigar Great Wall Flourishing Age Miracle Robusto RG52 x 5.25"

A beautiful cigar wrapped in Maduro leaf. When cutting the head, the tobacco crumbles with a crunch, the filler is dark, so I assume that the filling has also undergone temperature fermentation.

1/3: Starts with thick soft smoke, the body is medium-full. Taste: wood, rye custard bread. After warming up, you can catch a sweet and sour taste, notes of dark chocolate and espresso.

2/3: As you smoke, the taste is rounded, becomes juicier, rye bread notes and spices dominate. The fortress is average. It rolled quite high-quality, but sometimes there are small tunnels because of which the cigar burns unevenly. From the middle of cigar, a mineral earthy taste comes to the fore, otherwise without significant changes, the background is the same bread / chocolate / coffee.[/url]

3/3: the smoke is thick and heavy. The taste is very similar to espresso of strong roasting with a mineral aftertaste.

Conclusion: I liked this cigar unconditionally. Pleasant taste, thick smoke, medium strength.
I do not know if this tobacco is grown entirely in China, but if so, it turned out very well, at the level of inexpensive NC. It remains to wish Chinese tobacco growers and blender to continue improve their art.

[Ites]

Great and detailed write up. I had no idea this was a thing

Thank you for sharing 

[tjkoala]

Great review! My gut tells me that if the blend is unknown or not listed that there's a decent chance they're importing the tobacco. From where? Who knows but I'd guess Nicaragua or Indonesia.

[Fox Sterlingworth]

Off/on topic, but do they come in cardboard 5 packs with the hand written labels?  Because if so, that’s pretty cool.

[Corylax18]

Thanks for posting. This was interesting to read. 

I belly laughed at the names of the cigars though.

They reminded me of the names you see at cheap Chinese restaurants in the US.

Super #1 Lotus Flower Dragon Buffet. 🤣

[riderpride]

Fascinating. I had no Idea and would definitely like to try some.

I hope there's a fortune on the back of the wrapper. 

'You will find happiness with a new love'

Cheers!

[Sir Diggamus]

Thank you for sharing. I wasn’t aware Chinese cigars existed.


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