Spada Gorda Second Tasting (rested 70 days)

[TacoSauce]

This is my second tasting of this cigar. I will cross-post this to my NC smoking diary in due course.

 

MOFOH Spada Gorda (+++): I waited another 4 weeks (for a total of 10 weeks since I received my bundle) since my first attempt to try another one of these. My previous experience was not good. The taste was so sour that I had to pitch the stick before the half-way point. On my second attempt I note that the cigar looks and feels the same as the first one. The cold draw, however, gave no taste of that tangy Virginia tobacco that I experienced before. Just a slight cacao and hay taste on this one. Upon lighting, the body is mild-medium, much milder than last time. The initial flavors are the deep mustiness of aged tobacco and leather. The leather isn't strong and blends nicely with the musty taste.

After the first inch and half, the ash falls off and a sugar cookie flavor joins. Performance-wise, the draw is perfect and there is a crazy amount of smoke output. I smoked this outside and somehow the smoke managed to fill the space around me. Absolutely a joy to smoke from this perspective. The smoke also had a nice velvety texture to it, further adding to the experience. By the half-way point the body is up to a medium level and the musty/aged flavor makes me feel like a king.

In the last third a berry (maybe raspberry?) note is layered on. Throughout, there wasn't a hint of the sour Virginia flavor that dominated the initial cigar. This cigar didn't strike me as a more-rested version of the original; it seemed to me to be a different cigar entirely. This was fantastic.

[MrBirdman]

Thanks for the review. 

[MoeFOH]

Nice follow-up review... be very interesting to see a review another couple of months down the track vs sticks 1 & 2.