Alec Bradley Black Market Robusto Review

[Goldwing]

Review # 47
$4.- $7.
5 1/4 x 52
Strength: Medium
Wrapper: Nicaraguan
Origin: Honduras

Pre-light sweet tobacco, ceder

1st 1/3 Sweet and soft take-off, earthy core, chocolate taste and for the first time tasted a sour citrus component, hmm

There's this one guy on youtube (Tim Rollins) and all he taste is citrus notes (yea sure)
Great construction and straight burn, excellent draw, love it.

Creamy soft smoke but dry medium plus-body.
Ash holding on better then any cigar I've had

2nd 1/3
Flavors staying the same with a touch of ashy incense and hay coming on also light mineral undertone as well.

No big buzz requiring a meal beforehand.
Burn staying sharp with no need of maintenance

Last 1/3
Slow burner, runs cool and that's great too.
Espresso coming on and the cocoa flavors shift to a hint of dark chocolate with the unwanted pepper zing. (me not like pepper )

Some interesting fruity berry there too, a rare surprising treat
A complex smoke that requires to slow down and focus, not a golf cigar where interest swings.
For the money a great cigar, not my top "Magnificent 7" but well worth a try.

Smoke time: 1 hour 15 min
Score: 7 out of 10


Better:
Perdomo Patriarch Maduro Toro
Ashton VSG
Casa Magna Gran Toro
Alec Bradley Maxx The Fix
Kristoff Maduro Robusto
Man O' War Ruination Robusto #2

 

[Cigary43]

Good honest review....bought a 5 pak of these and smoked the first one after 30 days and smoked much like what you found...the second one was smoked a month later and it smoked a bit better and the 3rd was smoked a week ago ( total rest on the 3rd was 90 days ) and it really was balanced..would bump it up to a 8 out of 10. Can't wait to see if there is much change after 5 months.

 

[ronmart]

Good review - I like how you recommended others that are better too. I had been considering getting one of these, but based on this I'll probably just buy another Ashton VSG instead.