Partagas Lusitania : MUL JUN 15 : Partagas Review Comp 2016

[BMWBen]

My first Partagas CC so I wasn't quite sure what to expect but always have read the Lusi's can be a very complex smoke.

The first 1/3 started off with a rich tobacco taste, a little spice and some leather coming in every now and then.

 

Maybe these need years to really show their true colors or I have a novice palate, but for the next 2/3 of the cigar I really just got more of the same. The only change I can say I noticed is towards the end of the second third and into the last third the woodiness of the cigar seemed to pick up. I was mostly still getting nice toasted tobacco with some leather and spice coming in and out.

 

While not as complex as I had expected it was still a great way to spend 1:45, and I look forward to trying more as these age.

[raymond5737]

Personally, I love the smoothness and subtle complexities of this cigar. I have been smoking CC's exclusively for over 3 years now and am always hoping for the best and accepting where the cigar is TODAY. It is the only attitude to take and purely subjective. I just gifted the same cigar to a friend who's wife just had baby boy. Can't wait to see how he likes it. He is also a novice to CC's.

[BMWBen]

On 11/9/2016 at 1:10 PM, raymond5737 said:

Personally, I love the smoothness and subtle complexities of this cigar. 

Thats one thing I've been starting to think, I'll never get the strong, prominent, flavors of NC's I'm used to in CC's, the flavors will always be much for subtle. For example an oliva NC has a very in your face leather flavor that would be hard to miss, but if I wasn't paying attention to this Lusi, I never would have picked up the leather in it.

[Jimmy_jack]

Remember, it's one example of a popular smoke. Maybe that one needs more time down, maybe it's just a dud. Even CoRos have let people down.