Vegas Robaina Don Alejandro OMR JUL 15: Discontinued cigar review weekend

[TomF]

I smoked one of these last summer after about 3 months in the humidor and thought they needed more time. This one was better, but still has room to improve.

The draw was tighter than I like but not unmanageable. Cold draw was nice barnyard with sweetness.

Sweet coffee, cream, nuts and raisins. Very nice sweet aroma. Med-light bodied. Fairly good burn that always self corrected when it started to go bad. Tight draw all the way down but other than that very enjoyable. Now that I know that this is probably the only box of these I'll ever own I will wait another year to try another one.

Very pleasant smoke. About 1:45, with a glass of Havana Club 7 and some sweet black tea..

[PuffDaddie]

Nice ash

[Hurltim]

Nice! A rarely reviewed stick as well!

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[dflan82]

37 minutes ago, Hurltim said:

Nice! A rarely reviewed stick as well!

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I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad that I have a box resting in the OLH but I will take your advice and wait a year or two before bringing them out.

 

Thanks Tom

[MahDooRow]

It really sucks that the VRDA is on the 2017 deletions list.  I know it's not a big seller, but the DA is a superb double corona.  Thanks for the review.

[TheMonk]

Indeed it's not very common to see reviews of the VRDA, and we certainly won't be seeing a lot more in the future!

The draw has unfortunately been a somewhat common issue with this cigar, which is an absolute shame, as the flavours are quite nice.