FOH International Blind Tasting Cigar Number 5!

[El Presidente]

Welcome to Cigar Number Five of the 2015 International Blind tasting Competition. .

The last one!

1. You have until September the 1st to submit your guess for Cigar Number five,


2. When you have your answer, please e-mail it to Lisa ([email protected]). This must be done by Sep 1st. You can e-mail Lisa your nominations for cigars 5 at any time. However once nominated, your answer cannot be changed. Take your time
   
3. I will have a spreadsheet of the answers up the following week.


4. I encourage you to post a review here of Cigar Number Five..but do not disclose your answer. It is always great to read the reviews after the cigar has been disclosed.

Good Luck!

[ShortFatHokie]

Smoked this one today...VERY NICE! By far, best of the five cigars in the tasting. I'll post more later...

[DrunkenMonkey]

Does anyone have an accurate ring gauge measurement of this cigar? Mine got squished a bit in transit, so it's sort of oval.

never mind, I guess it has to be 52.

Edited August 19, 2015 by DrunkenMonkey

[potpest]

Smoked mine a while back. From memory it was all over the place, tasted different on nearly every draw and I could barely work out any flavours beyond some coffee and maybe some cocoa. I'm clueless.

[GavLew79]

I'm 0 from 4 so lets see if can get the full Duck.

By far and away the best cigar of the 5. Pearler. Cracker. Beaut. My note said:

Sweet milky coffee. Baking spice. Lemon meringue? Gains leather and spice. Stunner. 95/100

I actually don't give a monkeys if I'm wrong on this one, there's no way I'm winning. I would like to have more though. Lovely cigar.

[santela]

Just smoked mine.

Had a pretty strong hunch what this cigar is before I even lit it, and it was confirmation bias the whole time I was smoking it.

[Tino]

Where has August gone? Away this weekend, going to be smoking this one on the deadline again...

[fingerburner]

Smoked mine this afternoon. Lovely. Best of the 5 for mine. Had a strong opinion on it from the get go, just hope I'm right...

[warren516]

I smoked this over the weekend and found it all over the place. I couldn't pick out anything about it. I'm guessing that my taste buds were on vacation that day.

[melies]

Forgot to post my photo, I loved this cigar! The best of the tasting for me, almost sure what it is, but if I don't get it, I still

Will buy more boxes!

Thanks for a great experience

[Rye]

I smoked this one last weekend.

Almost blotchy oily wrapper. Spongy foot and a couple soft spots along the body of this pyramides. Feint spices and tobacco smell at the foot.

Cut small as I thought it may be a loose one and ignited with a cedar spill.

Smooth smoke at the beginning and mild-medium body. Baking spices and toasted tobacco

Strong ash held the entire first third and it rolled off with a snap when I was getting worried about wearing it. Burn was wavy and needed just some OCD calming touch ups.

Hit a bit of a rough patch just after the half, but a good flaming purge seemed to get it back on track, but with darker flavours.

Strength increased in the back half but never stronger then a medium level. Baking spice has remained throughout the entire cigar and while there was some progression to the cigar, not a lot of change.

Some leather and wood flavours toward the end

Good cigar, but I didn't get the wow factor that many seem to have with this one. Perhaps it was the softer roll on mine, but nub-worthy still.

Big thanks to Rob & Lisa for keeping this unique and humbling experience going.

Thanks to @bradbrennan @Melies @Laynard @Optic101 for talking me into doing this again for one more year.

Cheers,

Rye

[Habanos2000]

Cigar #5 for me also had a blotchy wrapper. Construction looked good and over all the flavors were fairly middle of the road, leather with suggestions of milk and cinnamon. Not much change until the last third which became noticeably stronger. I'd give it an 89.

Thanks to the Czar crew for putting on another fun Blind Cigar Challenge!

[First Lady]

HI guys

There are still a few that have not contacted me I would love to post up the last of the results so I can see who the ultimate winner is

Thanks

Lisa

[Habana Mike]

Let's go boys!!!

[warren516]

I say close it when you arrive at work tomorrow! They have had almost a week extra.

[Fumadoro]

The suspense is growing for me! I just want the satisfaction of knowing I went 0/5!

[santela]

Yeah I can't wait to get it wrong! Cmon and give us the closure!

[ShortFatHokie]

Smoked this one today...VERY NICE! By far, best of the five cigars in the tasting. I'll post more later...

Now that the cigar has been revealed, here are my tasting notes...

First 1/3: First couple of puffs...PARTAGAS!!! Wow, what's that? Creamy coffee, then COCOA!!! LOTS of cocoa!!! Never had this in a Partagas before...VR or Monte???

Second 1/3: One word...COCOA!!! Definitely VR...

Final 1/3: Cocoa fades to black coffee. Yep, VR.

Guess I was wrong!

[potpest]

Now that the cigar has been revealed, here are my tasting notes...

First 1/3: First couple of puffs...PARTAGAS!!! Wow, what's that? Creamy coffee, then COCOA!!! LOTS of cocoa!!! Never had this in a Partagas before...VR or Monte???

Second 1/3: One word...COCOA!!! Definitely VR...

Final 1/3: Cocoa fades to black coffee. Yep, VR.

Guess I was wrong!

This is pretty similar to what I thought. Pure chocolate/cocoa for the 1st third, was thinking Monte or VR, had a few puffs that i thought could be Partagas towards the back end of the 2nd third then the last third was just a bit hot and dirty.