My christmas reviews

rafa · January 4, 2009

All cigars are single, recent purchase (no box codes, only some of them i saw the box year date)

1- Romeo y julieta - cazadores - 16'2 * 44

Tight draw. Sweet taste and aroma with hay and wood in the palate. Few nuances. My first one Cazadores, not so strong how i can imagine after reading some reviews.

2 - VEGAS ROBAINA - Don Alejandro - Prominente: 19,4 * 49 - From a 3 pack , a gift from a friend who travelled Cuba 2 months ago.

Soft construccion and easy draw. All spectrum of differents chocolates ,cocoa, dark, moka,truffle, with coffee and cedar nuances. Delicious,like a box a chocolates, although almost 2 hours of chocolates sometimes can be tired.

3 - CUABA - Divinos - Petit Bouquet: 10,1 * 42 .

Beautiful construccion, perfect draw, slow combustion and a lot of smoke. Strong and tasty with vegetal, wood , cocoa nuances. It have its own complexity. I like it.

4 - DONA FLOR - Robusto Connecticut: 12,4 * 50 - From a 5 pack, a gift from my sister when she travelled to Brasil in September.

Acceptable construccion, with a nipple in the cap, good draw and combustion. Strong cedar taste with cream nuances, well paired. A different smoke and a pleasant surprise.

5 - SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA - El principe - Minuto : 11,0 * 42 .

Good construccion and beautiful appearance. Correct draw. Full toasted tobacco flavour, with cedar, cocoa and vegetal nuances. A little gem this time (in others occasions this cigar can be bored, without nuances)

6 - SANCHO PANZA - Belicosos - Campana : 14 * 52 - year 2000

Rude cap with Very beautiful construccion, spongy between fingers and perfect draw. Smooth, delicate, elegant with a lot of nuances, difficult to describe: wood, cedar, cocoa, vanilla , leather, licorice , coffee, cinnamon, hay, earth, sometimes salted, sometimes sweet, all very well balanced from the beggining to the end. Perhads the best cigar this christmas.

7 - CUABA - Tradicionales - Favoritos: 12 * 41 - year 2003

Very good construccion and correct draw, but savage smoke. Very strong with wet wood taste or like smell the fields after rain, no nuances, very primitive . Nothing to compare with his small brother Divinos.

8 - MONTECRISTO - Petit Edmundo - 11 * 52

Exquisite construccion and too easy draw. Delicious cigar from the first puff, full flavour with sweet cedar predominat taste and cream and cocoa nuances. Too short.