Romeo y Julieta Churchill A/T Revisited

[Colt45]

If interested, here's a little background:

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Another year in the humidor has shown quite a bit of evolution when compared to last year's, and prior samples. Cold aroma is a combination

of sweet and musk, with a cold taste of light milk chocolate. Appearance and construction great as they all have been.

Core flavor of slightly sweet tobacco and just enough white pepper to sense it's there. The texture on the palate of silky, liquid milk chocolate,

which also showed itself as an overlay flavor component.

The odd hint of unsweetened cherry and burnt sugar or caramel. Past midpoint, there's a bit more earth, but it never gets very dark. Medium

plus in body, and fairly dense, but not heavy. Just a hint of wood, with an ever so slightly tannic finish. No flavors are overt, but everything is

very well integrated and totally in balance. Very smooth and cool smoking.

As solid a cigar as I've had recently, and to my palate, exceptional. Perhaps not one of those "WOW!" cigars, but a cigar, to use a human trait,

which was extremely confident in what it was. My two laments are that it had to end, and that I've but one of these left. I do have a dress box

in hiding, and hope they are near equals to this batch of A/Ts.

[Habanos2000]

Colt,

are you keeping these in sealed tubes all the time, or open in the humi?

[PigFish]

Good job Ross. How about a demo on your photo skills? -LOL

I have not had an RyJ churchill for sometime now. When I think about it I don't think I have more than a couple of boxes of RyJ cigars... I just never hit it off with them. The churchill however has always been a stalwart of the line and to churchills in general. Sounds like a great cigar! Cheers, -Piggy

[Colt45]

Colt,

are you keeping these in sealed tubes all the time, or open in the humi?

H2K, I've always kept them in the humidor with the caps on. I will say that when first received, they were on the moist side, and it did take

somewhat longer for them to acclimatize when compared to non-tubed cigars.

Piggy, here we are mid 2009, and I don't have a digital camera I can call my own If you're looking for an autographed photo,

I'll be happy to send one out

As for the cigar, it really was very good. I think what I've really enjoyed most is tasting the transformation of these over the past few years.

They've slowly shed any harsh edges while retaining, or even gaining depth and flavor. I'm looking forward to and have hopes for the

dress box.

[laficion]

Ross,

Thanks for the interesting review, I'll have to look into this again

since I haven't had a RyJ A/T in such a long time. I was truly upset

the last time I had one , but I guess there must have been many other reasons at the time

[Colt45]

Ross,

Thanks for the interesting review, I'll have to look into this again

Guy, beside the fact it had been nearly a year since my last, I think one of the reasons I decided on this cigar was that more often than not when

members discuss this cigar, it seems to end in disappointment or apathy. These have all been very well made, and as stated, I feel are really

coming into their own. I hope you find your next to be enjoyable

[PigFish]

...Piggy, here we are mid 2009, and I don't have a digital camera I can call my own If you're looking for an autographed photo,

I'll be happy to send one out

...yeah, that'll do. Just scan it and post it!!! -Piggy