Popular Post mt1 Posted October 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2020 Decided to jump on the trend here but I went for a side-by-side comparison. Here are two Monte No.5 that I had put away for a bit due to really liking the wrappers. I admit I've done a similar comparison before since the FOH video about dipping cigars in water. So here we go. I started with the dry cigar, which gave me the expected chocolate notes from this cigar. In the meantime, I dipped the second stick into the water, let it rest for a bit and then pat it dry gently. The first third of the dry cigar: chocolate, some woodiness but still mostly chocolate. The first third was notably sweet with a dark chocolate aftertaste that was slightly bitter but not unpleasant. I lit up the dipped cigar to find pretty much the same profile, though it was a little softer and lower in intensity. More on that later. Into the second third, still nice coco flavors from the dry stick while the wet stick is also coco but just a touch softer, with more pronounced puffs of some floral tones. At this point it became obvious that the dry stick was looser and perhaps a tad underfilled while the the wetstick was tighter and perhaps a bit plugged--but not enough for the perfecdraw to make an appearance, it was just relatively more packed than the dry stick. I don't think this had anything to do with the dipping in the water, but i may be wrong. My theory on the difference in intensity is that the wrapper contributes more to flavor than the filler (which is partly used to keep the cigar burning well) and thus, the underfilled stick is more flavorful because there is more wrapper relative to filler than the slightly more packed stick. Or...maybe it's the water? I'm not too sure but I know that my theory is based on facts that are entirely unscientific and unverifiable. I choose to think the water does not matter. And if it does, I like the dry stick better anyway. Burning them down together was quite a task but the flavors never let up. I got my constant hit of coco with the sweetness slowly dwindling over time but not in a bad way. It was a nice progression for such small sticks. Overall, I preferred the dry stick but, as explained above, I don't think this was due to the water. Perhaps I will need to revisit the water test with some different cigars later. Now kiss... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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