Origin: Nicaragua
Vitola: 5 * 50 rg - Robusto
Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Cameroon
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan
Date Smoked: 5/3/17
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Appearance and Construction:
Another awesome looking cigar, with a nice oily oscuro coloured wrapper, with minimal veins. Wrapper seams are invisible, double cap is perfectly applied. Cigar feels extremely firm, but has a perfect cold draw.
Prelight:
Strong barnyard from foot and binder, cedar and vague herbal note from wrapper. Prelight draw tastes of sweet tobacco.
First Third:
Initial leather and chocolate, light black pepper spice on retrohale. The honey sweetness I found in the first third of the natural version is more just like a generic tobacco sweetness in the maduro. This could be simply due to slight filler variations etc. Nutmeg note becoming preset midway through third. Resting smoke smells very chocolatey. As the wrapper starts to burn, the chocolate notes are amplified in intensity, and a slight earthiness appears in the background. Body medium-full, strength medium.
Second Third:
The honey sweetness is back. Sweetness, chocolate, earth and nutmeg dominate the flavour profile, with intermittent notes of faint leather in the background. Retrohale spice slightly increased, moderate back of throat spice. Body medium-full, strength increased to full. Burn has been perfect so far, though the draw has tightened up somewhat, slightly diminishing the experience. Purge needed at about halfway due to bitterness.
Final Third:
Leather no longer present. Sweetness slightly increased, retro hale spice almost absent now, smoke is very smooth. Overall not much change from second third, though a couple of touchups and purges are needed as it was a bit of a battle keeping the thing lit towards the end.
My review of the natural here: http://www.botl.org/threads/cao-la-traviata-mochado-natural.89455/
Vitola: 5 * 50 rg - Robusto
Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Cameroon
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan
Date Smoked: 5/3/17
View media item 48626
Appearance and Construction:
Another awesome looking cigar, with a nice oily oscuro coloured wrapper, with minimal veins. Wrapper seams are invisible, double cap is perfectly applied. Cigar feels extremely firm, but has a perfect cold draw.
Prelight:
Strong barnyard from foot and binder, cedar and vague herbal note from wrapper. Prelight draw tastes of sweet tobacco.
First Third:
Initial leather and chocolate, light black pepper spice on retrohale. The honey sweetness I found in the first third of the natural version is more just like a generic tobacco sweetness in the maduro. This could be simply due to slight filler variations etc. Nutmeg note becoming preset midway through third. Resting smoke smells very chocolatey. As the wrapper starts to burn, the chocolate notes are amplified in intensity, and a slight earthiness appears in the background. Body medium-full, strength medium.
Second Third:
The honey sweetness is back. Sweetness, chocolate, earth and nutmeg dominate the flavour profile, with intermittent notes of faint leather in the background. Retrohale spice slightly increased, moderate back of throat spice. Body medium-full, strength increased to full. Burn has been perfect so far, though the draw has tightened up somewhat, slightly diminishing the experience. Purge needed at about halfway due to bitterness.
Final Third:
Leather no longer present. Sweetness slightly increased, retro hale spice almost absent now, smoke is very smooth. Overall not much change from second third, though a couple of touchups and purges are needed as it was a bit of a battle keeping the thing lit towards the end.
- Overall a nice smoke if you like notes of chocolate and earth. I do. HOWEVER, for my money I would actually go with the natural, as I found the flavour profile slightly more preferable.
My review of the natural here: http://www.botl.org/threads/cao-la-traviata-mochado-natural.89455/
