Fail: San Cristóbal dlH, Morro, EAR AGO 01

[Jose_A_Rodriguez]

 

 

? REFER TO POST NUMBER 5

 

 

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Smoked this prior to committing to buy a full 25 count box. 

 

Being a 2001 vintage, I was a bit worried about quality issues, but I was pleasantly surprise that construction was solid. Excellent draw and it burned very evenly throughout the two hours.

 

This mid-body cigar has aged well. Nice hay and green pepper notes in the first half of cigar complementing its creaminess profile. Around the second half of cigar, I started to pick up a pleasant eucalyptus note that remained on the cigar until the end.

 

I can see how some people may not enjoy this cigar as much as I did since it's not a powerhouse, but I did truly enjoyed this cigar as a early afternoon smoke. 

 

A solid 90 points. Needless to say, I opted to buy a full box after really enjoying this elegant smoke.

 

[Charltonc]

I love this cigar, but I feel like these will be discontinued soon.

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[JohnS]

Agreed. These haven't been seen around for a little while now. Thanks for the review!

[TheMonk]

Very nice job!

[Jose_A_Rodriguez]

In the interest of Science...?

 

Finally the box that I purchased last week arrived, and I had to taste one cigar to compare with the well-constructed sample that I tasted last week (see above). For curiosity's sake, I picked the best of the worst (i.e. a small soft-spot near the top of 1st third). I was hoping to also smoked one that is well constructed, but rain ruined this experiment since I didn't even get to light the better cigar. 

 

LOL, I should have started with the good example.

 

 

Observations:

- ???Only 36% failure rate: Based on preliminary inspection of this box, around 5 other cigars in box are underfilled and 3 cigars had one or two hard spots. I already discarded those other eight cigars; no need to smoke another bad stick from this box.

- not sure if calculated risk payed-off based on salvaged sticks

- better looking wrappers than the one I sampled last week (see above tasting note)

- mid-body to mild

- more nutty

- less creamy

- mint notes were also present

 

Rating: 50 points due to the known construction issues.