Cuaba Diademas (no box code, purchased 2013) (FRCSW5)

[NapaNolan]

I bought three of these on a work trip to Barcelona in 2013. This is the first I've smoked of those.

A few years ago I pulled the foil off of one and noticed it had a little mold so I went ahead and removed the foil from all three.

Absolutely beautiful, silky smooth wrapper, no tooth at all. Really feels like primo Cohiba wrapper quality.

Smelling the wrapper I got sweet leather, barnyard, clay, cinnamon and cocoa (sort of a Mexican chocolate combo).

Draw was fairly firm but workable, cold draw gave me milk chocolate, caramel, hay and peanut butter.

This thing is just so big. I wasn't really pulling smoke until the ash got to the widest point of the foot.

The first third offered a very light bodied smoke, very fresh and very 'easy' flavors. Peanut butter, brown sugar, hay, salinity, with a touch of vegetal astringency that actually provided some complexity and wasn't really a detractor.

The second third was fairly similar with light cedar, grass, hay, simple and light.

The final third was more or less the same as the second with a return of the vegetal astringency but I didn't like it as much.

I basically gave up with a Monte Petit #2 left, with a smoking time of 2:48. It tunneled a bit and went out three times. Ambient humidity is crazy high though so I'm sure that was a main culprit.

Overall, I really liked the cigar, moreso that reviews I read this morning. I just don't want to smoke one cigar for this long again. I'd rather have two Exclusivos.

Probably a 50/50 on whether I'd recommend this cigar, very dependent on the person. No idea when I'll get around to the other two.

[bishop532]

Those pictures really drive home how ridiculously big of a cigar this is. I can definitely understand the preference for two shorter smokes instead. Though your review made it sound pretty damn good 😁

[NapaNolan]

7 minutes ago, bishop532 said:

Those pictures really drive home how ridiculously big of a cigar this is. I can definitely understand the preference for two shorter smokes instead. Though your review made it sound pretty damn good 😁

Early in my smoking I had some of those ridiculous Puros Indios cigars...this was definitely better than those!