Tatuaje Negociant Monopole #1 2021ish (FRW)

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Picked up a 5er of these end of last summer, last one I can find and i can't remember smoking one; I'll blame cigar gnomes, Tatuaje is pretty popular at the B&M and I usually throw NC around to be that guy.

Starts much punchier than I would expect for a Connecticut wrapper, tries to be creamy but there's too much pepper. About an inch in this dissipates enough to taste some nuttiness, but it's still quite peppery.  After ashfall the pepper comes back in full force, to the point that I set it down to cool off...

I've gotten too used to CC, I'll be smoking NC for the foreseeable future while the new pricing plays out. I have at least 2 years of NC stock on hand, plus what i buy at the lounge, I have no fear of running out. My CC stock needs time to come around anyway.

I give this another inch or so and am rewarded with some mellow citrus peel and creme, before the blitzkrieg of pepper starts again. I figure I'm just smoking too fast based on the cone of ember that has formed. I get real slow and the pepper mostly dissipates and a nice sourdough shows up. This could just be a Partagas! Too bad I'm not a party fan...

The final 3rd mellows out quite a bit, but I've been letting the cigar rest on the ashtray between each puff to smoke as slow as possible. As long as it's cool, it shows a creamy nut butter, almost custardy smoke. If it gets warm, the pepper comes back in full force.

6/11, almost too great a construction, big full flavors, just not my cuppa tea with maintaining a cigar in the dark watching hockey.

[dominattorney]

I like these

[Sir Diggamus]

Great review! Just finishing a no 4 in the same line and are getting some of the same flavors. I like this line a lot and one of the ones I reach for at a lounge when buying something to show respect for the lounge.


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[bmac]

A creamy nut butter