ABR DIC 11 Sancho Panza Molinos

[WineAcrobat]

I Purchased this box to smoke while listening to the second half of the Don Quixote audiobook. (in case you don't know, half way is about 22 1/2 hours of read time) 

 

Here are my notes from tonight:

 

Cold draw:

Sweet leather

Sweet bread

Honey

Toffee

Tobacco

Light:

Good smoke production

Vegital

Barley cereal

Ash

1/3:

Sweet tobacco

Dry earth (infertile soil)

Salt

Citrus and meat on retrohale

Leather

White pepper

Leather

Thin salty smoke, but good production

Clove

Chewy pipe tobacco (as close as I can describe the sweet leather/tobacco/bread quality)

Not much change in the first 1/3 but reasonably complex

Bitter caramel

Over 1 1/4” ash before falling (fell on me)

Soy sauce

Bitterness on lips

Outside of fignuton

 

2/3: (to dark for photos now)

Subtle bitterness starts to develop in mouth

Salty leather

Great sweet smoke followed by the bitter salt quality

Some subtle fruit quality coming out

Fig?

Very bitter lips

Sweetness and bitterness increasing

 

3/3: 

Sweet, salted plum

Bitter chocolate

Still salty leather

 

 

Really interesting cigar. It has so much sweet smoke that the intensely bitter/salty/savory aftertaste is balanced out. This really feels like it encompasses the feeling of the book, one crazy man and one fools misadventures through Spain. Tastes like leather strap, infertile land, and ocean air. (but in a good way?) 

 

also, how did y'all get me on Orange juice. this is so weird but I agree, works amazingly well with cigars. 

 

Thanks for reading! 

[cottierm]

Thanks for reviewing one of my favourites. I have still a couple of boxes of these and your description is spot on with mine (minus the pairing with orange juice which I have never tried!).

All the best,

Michel