TX Duo Review - Rojas Bluebonnet Corona 2024?

[Çnote]

Actually smoking this one with @Capn_Jackson! Maybe our notes will match up as we're talking as we go.

Starts up with a blast of almond that soon fades into shortbread with a touch of lemon. Very tingling on the lips. Thick creme & angel food cake, loses the cake but picks up faint lemon zest. 

At roughly halfway, loses all creme and citrus and goes into a dry and savory brioche cinnamon roll profile. Going into third 3rd, big nutmeg, molasses, belt leather. Oak with moss (blame Cap'n.)

Drops into bitter espresso in the nub. Not particularly pleasant and it gets pitched pretty quick.

I remember these being better? Could definitely age and integrate more, lots of flavor but very muddled and seemed stuck in 1st.

[JohnS]

Oak with moss,@Capn_Jackson!

[Ruggerpgh99]

I love these in Marevas, such a great sized smoke and I get good complexity. 

[GVan]

How old was the cigar? I love Rojas Street Taco Barbacoa's as a change of pace cigar. Favorite size is the Coronas Gordas but have some of his Toros as well. Mine are now 3 years old and have really smoothed out from their initial blast of cayenne when young to now a much sweeter red pepper, capsicum, sourdough and nutmeg.  

[Çnote]

9 hours ago, GVan said:

How old was the cigar? I love Rojas Street Taco Barbacoa's as a change of pace cigar. Favorite size is the Coronas Gordas but have some of his Toros as well. Mine are now 3 years old and have really smoothed out from their initial blast of cayenne when young to now a much sweeter red pepper, capsicum, sourdough and nutmeg.  

I had thought when pulling these (and lighting them up) they were a couple years old at least, but looking at notes I probably got them beginning of 2025. Too many cigars...

[Çnote]

On 6/11/2025 at 5:14 PM, JohnS said:

Oak with moss,@Capn_Jackson!

He put it in my head and then it was all I could taste.

[Capn_Jackson]

Lighting up a Rojas Bluebonnet, with @Çnote in person, for once. Wrapper has some barnyard aroma for sure, a little pepper spice.

Cold draw is coconut cream, sweet tobacco.

First third has some cocoa cereal grain, butter, amaretto, shortbread, and some desert that I am trying to place but just cannot. Nice beginning, though there’s a slightly unappealing bitterness.

Eventually I realize the desert is tiramisu. Homemade, not the corporate chain-restaurant junk. The good stuff. It’s redeeming the things I don’t like about the cigar, a little.

Second third, the bitter note dies down a bit. Some good tobacco notes, but not much in the way of sweetness anymore. As soon as I placed that tiramisu note, it vanished, which is a bummer. A little wash of black pepper over cereal grain, and damp forest wood. Strength starts to kick up in the later going, around midpoint. Mostly coffee now, maybe with a tiny bit of cream, and hints of pecan.

Things wake up as I get toward the last third. Some cocoa biscuit, a little coriander, and more pecan. Orange pekoe, as well.

Leather tack, as I get closer to the band, like I’m in a horse stable. Mossy oak bark, too. Unfortunately, that soon converts to a salty, steamy pile of wet cardboard. 

As I read over this, with the flavors I noted early on, it may seem like this cigar appealed to me. It didn’t, in fact. Some very nice flavors along the way, but disjointed. a little bland at times, and a little bitter at others. Also, a muddy end. If the custardy tiramisu had stayed around longer, or was harmonized by more nuttiness and sweet spices, it could have been something better than what it was. 

[Çnote]

Let's get some of these again and review. I have a handful of loosies of unknown age and I'm pretty sure I gave you a Lancero at some point. There's potential here for sure.

[Capn_Jackson]

23 hours ago, Çnote said:

Let's get some of these again and review. I have a handful of loosies of unknown age and I'm pretty sure I gave you a Lancero at some point. There's potential here for sure.

I have a few more corona gorda too, but they are pretty new. I agree there’s potential. The humidity from the drizzle outside could’ve thrown things off, as well.