Partagas Maduro No.1 - Review 26 August 2015

[RijkdeGooier]

Partagas Maduro No.1 - a look to the future

A very nice friend asked me to review the Partagas Maduro No.1 and the RyJ Cedros de Luxe before their official launch in The Benelux.

For this review I choose to smoke the Partagas Maduro in my office.

Of course I was happy to comply

The Ashes

Size: Maduro No. 1

Smoking time: from 13:00 to - 14:20, 1:20 hours of smoking pleasure

Location: Kortenhoef, The Netherlands

A cru

Appearance

The cigar is maduro in color, darker than medium, with a nice oily feel to it and a bit veiny but not rough.

The smell is sweet cacoa, some hay. Predraw reveals a good construction, easy draw.

After lighting and cutting @ 12:59 Combustion and construction

Very easy burn and a very easy draw. Ash is not firm and has a tendency to drop

Well constructed and not underfilled.

Taste

The cigar has a full, but not overly strong taste- more medium than strong.

As this is a first for Partagas, I cannot readily benchmark it against other cigars.

They are not like the Cohiba Maduro line.

1st third start 13:05 - A medium peppery cigar with some sweetnes. It is enjoyable and different in taste from many others. Pepper and Black Coffee are the baseline with some Cedar, Peat and Dark

Cacao as noticeable accents.

White Pepper -3-4/5

Black coffee - 3/5

Cacao - 1/5

Cedar - 1/5

Peat - 1/5

An enjoyable mix, albeit a little bit unbalanced towards the peppery end.

2nd third start 13:30 - Similar, slightly stronger in general than medium now. Shift in blend, increase coffee, decrease in pepper, resulting in better balance. Some sweet licorice starts to appear. This part of the cigar gives a better balanced and full flavour.

White Pepper -2/5

Black coffee - 3/5

Cacao - 2/5

Licorice - 2/5

Cedar - 1/5

Peat - 1/5

An enjoyable mix, better balanced but still quite spicy.

3rd third start @ 13:55 - Balance is even better. Sweet with coffee, pepper have become distant but present. Again increase in strenght but no bitterness.

White Pepper -2/5

Black coffee - 3/5

Cacao - 2/5

Licorice - 2/5

Cedar - 1/5

Peat - 1/5

An enjoyable mix, better balanced but still strong and spicy. The best part of the cigar..

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Fin @ 14:20

Good finish - this Partagas Maduro packs a punch!.

Verdict

A start that was unbalanced with a peppery blast, settling down to a very balanced and strong smoke, some sweet, some dark tobacco taste.

Recommended for a change of pace.

Verdict 8.75/10

[Scrubber]

Great review. Thanks for sharing.

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[phlee]

Thanks for review

[westg]

Great review and pictures as well..looks like that band may of been starting to heat up a little

[glassbase]

Very informative review, I enjoyed reading it. Can't wait to try one of these!

[dicko]

Hi mate I like your style of review referring to baseline etc that makes a lot of sense to me. Cheers