Esplendidos EOS JUN 19 (SELRW)

[Chibearsv]

This was a great idea for a review weekend.  Nice to see faces to put with names.

Finished snow blowing the foot of snow we got Saturday night, cooled down, and decided I deserved my favorite for a job well done.  Reached for an un-opened box of Esplendidos. 

All of the cigars in the box have perfectly uniform appearance including wrappers, size, and band locations and orientation.  I love it when a new box looks perfect.  On to the cigar, construction appears flawless, no hard knots, beautiful golden brown wrapper.  Aroma at cold is pure barnyard wet straw, just what I expect.  Opens medium body smooth and tangy, light citrus, very slight white pepper, slightly sweet, and undried straw.  If you've ever been in a horse barn and smell a straw bale when it's busted open, that's what I'm getting here.  Mid-point is much of the same but sweetness comes forward, slight lemon citrus, pepper almost disappears, and that barnyard twang is still very prevalent. The combination of barnyard and sweet gives that sensation of honey that I've heard and seen described by others.  Maybe just over medium in body with lots of white smoke.  Cigar finishes without much additional evolution but that's kind of the way Esplendidos roll.  They just start out great and stay that way for 2 hours.  Needed one re-light with a third to go but no other burn issues at all.  Nubbed it of course.  Solid A+  If the cigar apocalypse happens, I will be hoarding these.  Pretty pictures first ?

 

[KCCubano]

Nice review. Havent bought any since 09. Been tempted. Does the back of your sweat shirt say "trade Trubisky". 

[Chibearsv]

47 minutes ago, KCCubano said:

Nice review. Havent bought any since 09. Been tempted. Does the back of your sweat shirt say "trade Trubisky". 

if I was going to put something on the back of my sweatshirt it would be more like "Decades of Disappointment".  They basically released Trubisky by not picking up his option and yet they kept the GM that f'd up by trading up to draft him.  Now we're supposed to believe that same GM is going to get things fixed...no way.

[KCCubano]

When i moved from there in 96 I think Dave Kreig was QB. Buddy and i were talking about GM. We would take Theo Epstein over current clown!