El Rey Del Mundo Choix Supreme PUT JUN 06

[El Presidente]

A fine Robusto for a fine morning here in Brisbane town. I selected this cigar from 8 remaining singles in an open box. All 8 were of excellent quality, well filled, nice golden toasted charachter to the wrapper with a good level of oil.

Smell at cold was pungeant. This is a young cigar and its brashness came through with a horse manure aroma whch at 8:30 am was a nice wakeup call No trace of Amonia on the nose.

Clipped the end, perfect draw, torched the foot....no time to muck around this morning.

BANG! Powerhouse start. All white pepper and tobacco. This was knockout opening punch which made me reach for my coffee to settle the senses. I drink my coffee freshly roasted stong and black....and I found it refreshing compared to the ERDM.

Much to Lisa's amusement and Smithy's disgust I often talk to my cigars.

"Come on baby....settle down....find your groove"

It didn't take long, 5-7 minutes before the initial onslaught (resembling a Mike Tyson heydey opening round) settled down into a mid body format. The transformation was quite remarkable and I have to say welcome. Gone was much of the white pepper and in came some cream, fruit and floral notes. Still midbody with a leaning towards full but the true character of the ERDM was trying to reveal itself....not overly successfully as it occasionally would trot out a balst of pepper...but the girl was trying to deport herself in a ladylike manner.

By the midpoint we had a well behaved girl who had managed to get herself under complete control. True Mid body, toasted tobacco, cream and a hint of fruit (citrus peel/stewed prunes). Still some real white pepper spice through the nose which is as spicy as any cigar I have recently tried. I can't say that I have noticed the extent of this trait in previous Choix Supreme's. The burn was excellent.

Into the last third and she was starting to lose composure like a wild child dressed as a princess on prom night.

Through my mind all I could think were the lyrics to the Troggs classic...."Wild thing you make my heart sing bla bla bla Wild thing, I think I love you But I wanna know for sure ..."

My ERDM CX was all over the place. Cream, white pepper, bitter blasts, stewed fruit...no consistency I was on a ride and I new she had no idea where she was going. Thoroughly enjoyable.

I didn't nub this cigar. In the end the dark side of tannins ruled the palate and I knew that nothing good could come from furthering our relationship.

Would I be back.....In a heartbeat :-D She has all the hallmarks of being a classic ERDMCX...perhaps one of the best ever. However, right now she was way too much of a handfull.

87/100 4/6 Smokerings. Potential over 3-5 years...unlimited.

[El Presidente]

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