Por Larranaga Montecarlo EML ABR 14 (P&PLRW)

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You certainly never need to ask twice for me to smoke a PLPC.  I currently have boxes from 13 and 14 open and some from 08 that I am going through.  Few cigars, at their modest price point, reward aging as well.  
 

When I first started smoking cigars, I was dismissive of the short fuller sticks under the rationale, “I already smoke less than 1 stick a week, why should I compromise?”

This was supported by the fact that, years later, someone gave me a somewhat recent PLMC and I hated it.

Flash forward a few years and I learn some stuff.  Well - more that - my esteemed MDO4 were hard to get and very expensive.  And someone gave me an AME 13 PLMC.  I was BLOWN AWAY.  
 

This particular box wasn’t aged by me but purchased from FOH auctions a few years back and I paid, what I thought at the time was an ASTRONOMICAL price, but I justified it because it was still 1/3 of the cost of the MDO4s.

Its a stunning cigar.  Wonderful funk and earthy notes.  It doesn’t have the added fruitiness of the mdo4 but damn if it isn’t just a commercial for why we age Cuban tobacco.  Gone is perhaps a bit of sparkle and too note, but in its place is a deep sense of place.  

 

A well aged box of these is truly a requirement in any decent humidor.  
 

@leepers and I both agreed that this was a 93-94 cigar.  If that seems insane for a thin, short filler stick, then I urge you to age a box.