2025 FOH International Blind Tasting Competition Review Thread.

[ayedfy]

Cigar 1. Opens sweet, dessert cream and berry sweetness. Midpoint the sweetness develops, bringing fresh figs and orange marmalade. Touches of aniseed and peppermint. Ends with a damp woodiness, toasted sourdough, and sugarcane juice. Very tight draw throughout the entire thing. 90 point, would be higher on flavour alone if the draw/construction didn’t annoy me.

[El Presidente]

No idea 😁

[vvvendo1969]

Cigar #1

< Before lighting a fire >

Length 124mm

RG 50

Box pressed, it seemed to me.

Almost no smell

Quite rough construction. A part of head wrapper is slightly broken.

Color is between Colorado and Colorado maduro.

I stored this cigar with 69% BOVEDA in ziplock in my wine cellar 14 degrees Celsius.

 < 1st 3rd >

Pairing with Coke.

The first puff.

Yes, I have smoked this cigar many times. I am sure.

Very decent sweetness with a bit fruitiness and cedar.

Draw is very good and a relatively loose.

Not so even burn.

Very tasty and very good cigar for me.

Creamy and soft.

The body is light to medium.

 < 2nd 3rd >

Pairing with hot lemon tea with sugar.

More cedar and more fruit.

Decent sweetness is same as 1st 3rd.

A bit orange nuance.

Ash is mottled pattern, black and gray.

Ash is not so hard but this is apparently a long filler cigar, IMO.

 < Final 3rd >

Pairing with Ardbeg CORRYVRECKAN.

Same flavor as 2nd 3rd but deeper and more complex.

Again I feel this is a very good cigar and I love it.

Now I am happy! Very happy indeed.

 < Conclusion >

Judging from my personal experience, I think Cigar No.1 is RASS or ELDM Choix Supreme or SLR Regios.

My conclusion is that this is RASS because Choix Supreme has stronger body and Regios has a sense of some oriental herb, I think.

Last but not least, I express my deepest thanks to El Presidente and his team for giving me this very precious and interesting opportunity.

I also would like to cheer for the other participants of this blind tasting.

Thank you very much.

[Bijan]

On 5/24/2025 at 8:00 PM, LordAnubis said:

I’ll be the first to post my guesses so here they are. I’m as sure as a Bitcoin bro promoting the new shitcoin that has just 20x-ed. 
 

Cigar 1 - Partagas D4

Cigar 2 - Bolivar RC

Cigar 3 - Hoyo Epicure 2

Cigar 4 - RyJ wide churchill

Cigar 5 - SLR Regios

As promised I'll have a go:

1. VR famosos (cast my vote)

2. Epi 2

3. Connie 1

4. RyJ ex. 4

5. Boli PC

We'll see how many I get right this time...

[DaBoot]

Cigar 2-

Not the best flavor profile. Very light, below medium, and no flavor, maybe a wooden pin. Stayed this way till the halfway point, then pitched it. Great looking wrapper though!!! Had high hopes, didn’t deliver.Not much to go off of here. Reminds me of a bad box of ryj short from 2018.

guess: ryj short Churchill 

[Montezüma]

CIGAR 2

Cigar 2 is a much lighter-bodied smoke compared to Cigar 1, with contrasting characteristics. Its a refined, nuanced, balanced smoke with a rather loose draw, producing plenty of smoke. There is a pronounced nuttyness to this cigar with modest strength.

Epicure No 2? Short de Punch?

I have decided to stop pondering and just enjoy this beautiful cigar.  Thanks again FOH for sending!