Finally my semi flu had gone just in time for a weekend cigar. Had this one in the morning after waking up and seeing the epic sun rise knowing it would be a warm winters day. Made a coffee and got a book ready to enjoy all three. I won't bore with long ideas about this cigar but thought easy draw, smooth velvety tastes and picking up notes of walnut in the beginning and cocoa near its end. It didn't keep a long ash but did burn consistently not going out once. ( 2-5min breaks) Total time of morning bliss was around 25minutes along with 2 long blacks, 1 chapter of Isaiah and ubber amounts of sun made this a perfect experience. Coffee compliment? Definitely
saw a comment of this being a harsh smoke in a earlier batch. I couldn't find any harshness in this one. One odd experience was my nose bunged up shortly after and went away a few hours later.
ReplyDeletegood work for a flu post-mortem!
ReplyDeleteyup these were from an August '08 box, started out harsh with a year's age when we first tried them, then 7-8 months later the harshness evaporated and we were left with this smoother, flavourful, cigar. The miracle of age. The box is unfortunately now empty.
Many young cigars start smoking with a lot of harsh tannins and a year or so later these fall away. Not always the case...