My Father Le Bijou 1922 Toro

[kaelaria]

This 6×52 stick offers a dark chocolate oily wrapper with small veins, invisible seams, a very even crushed velvet texture with a slight spongy give and a rich oily chocolaty tobacco aroma. First light revels full bodied flavors of a sily smooth chewy thick smoke, though not a lot of it. Flavors are a deep earth, chocolate and mild pepper zing through the long finish. Draw is perfect with just a bit of resistance. The first third gives solid medium body flavors of a super thick and rich dry aged tobacco with a touch of a sweet chocolate and pepper. 20 minutes in I encountered a strange burn problem, with a tiny shaft burning through the center of the cigar, and 1/2 of the stick getting very hot and mushy. It stopped putting out smoke yet continued to burn. After spending 10 minutes correcting the burn, manually lighting 1/2″ of wrapper and getting through a section that seemed to be rolled with a tube down the center, it is back to burning correctly. 40 min in at the 1/2 way point, flavors returned to a medium-full body treat of rich creamy milk chocolate, a slightly sweet eart and smooth tobacco with a touch of pepper and long smooth finish. 1:15 in at the band point the burn has slowed significantly flavors have changed to a creamy textured, smooth slightly sweet earth with a long earth and pepper finish. I have given it a couple minor touchups, but overall performance is good. Ending at 1:40 min where it got hot probably due to the touch-ups near the end, I ended it as flavors got a bit warm and washed out. If this hadn’t of had the burn issues it would be pushing the two hour mark easily, as I burned off more than an inch correcting the burn.
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[Gokian]

Awesome review. Weird how some just will not buren right and others are perfect. Thank you for doing the review.

 

[ciggy]

Thanks for the review. This cigar to me was very complex and I think with time is going to be awsome.

 

[Mutombo]

I love this cigar in the petit robusto. Thanks for the review!

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

Thanks for the review Bryan and the Petit Robusto is still my favorite size.

 

[ThankfulJoe]

Appreciate the review. I have a few boxes of these resting and can't wait to get in country so i can light one up. I've heard nothing but good things.

 

[megladon8]

Excellent review as usual.

And I agree with Larry - the Petit Robusto is a pretty awesome little stick.

 

[Bull]

Thanks for the review...
I too am a petit Robusto guy for the MF
Have found that this is a NC that does very well at lower RH's.

 

[76GTFan]

This cigar HAS to be at lower RH or it just won't do well. I have had 3 to date. 2 were when the RH was closer to 71. Did not perform well at all. Just as you described. I dry boxed the other for 36 hours. Made all the difference.

 

[kaelaria]

My sticks are all at 65%.