Popular Post PointFivePast Posted March 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2020 Been resting these since receiving them late last year. Haven’t wanted to jump in as this will only be my third Cohiba ever but at some point you have to try them just to have a reference as they age! Rather windy today but the cigar is already clipped so I’m going ahead anyway. Aroma at cold is sweet and honey-like over a core of classic tobacco. Slight tangy note like cheese (Parmesan?) and just a hint funky. Cold draw is clean, zero funk, slightly sweet and full stone fruit, peaches specifically. Fantastic. Construction is good but features a flawed cap (lifting slightly, terrible glue job) and slight crack in wrapper appearing behind the band. Hopefully this won’t present any issues. 1/3: Right out the gate cigar I’m getting sweet, dry hay and a touch of lemongrass. Citrus notes linger in retrograde but it’s a distinct note of lemongrass in the palate. Just under medium body, delightfully restraint. Pretty smooth given the youth of this cigar. Hints of butter come in with the arrival of cedar... cedar will continue through a majority of this cigar. Bit of nutmeg appears an inch in but the lemongrass and cedar define this third. 2/3: You can see the crack here that I mentioned earlier. It’s holding steady and not affecting the burn or smoke production so not a big deal. This picture also helps highlight the stunning wrapper color, nice dark Colorado. Yum. Cedar softens now and stone fruit starts to come in instead of citrus or lemongrass. Hint of bread dough. No real creaminess but I’m sensing a potential for it to develop with some aging. PISTACHIO MACHIATTO?!? Comes through clear as day... as though Starbucks made a caramel macchiato but replaced caramel with a pistachio syrup like the flavor of pistachio ice cream. I can’t make this up, one of the oddest and most distinct flavors ever. Wild. Wind continues to throw the burn off here and there but the cigar does a great job of staying lit and keeping an even burn underneath the wrapper and catching itself up. Pistachios coming through still, less sweet now, with a bit of salt and black pepper. Hints of sweetness pop back in here and there with a bit of a vanilla quality. 3/3: Staying just at the threshold of medium bodied with relatively mild nicotine, very pleasant. Lemongrass comes back in a bit and the fruitiness switches from stone fruit to something more like pineapple. Flavors starting to darken and muddy as we get near the end but the cigar still has a brightness to it with not much in the way of bitterness. Overall, absolute stunner with some unique favors, a few twists and turns, and a good level of class for this freshman entry in to the humidor. 93/100 right now with some real potential for the long haul. Picked up a six pack to try but now I might just have to buy a box. I don’t smoke a whole lot of $18-20 cigars but I see why people swear by these. If there was one I’d keep around it would likely be a Cohiba Robusto. Thanks for reading and thanks to El Pres for keeping these weekend reviews interesting! Hope you all are staying safe and healthy out there! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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