thegoldenmackid
Why Can't I be a Lancero?
I try to only post the special reviews on here. As part of the noobie sampler trade Tim (podman28) beat me up pretty good.
My thoughts on this PDR, here.
Name: Pinar Del Rio BOTL.org Small Batch
Vitola: Corona Gorda
Size: 6 x 46
Wrapper: Brasil Bahía
Binder: Dominican Criollo 98
Filler: Dominican Habano & Nicaraguan Corojo
Country: Nicaragua
Price: $6.25 (Boxes of 20)
Source: Tim at Burning Leaf (Trade)
Time in Humidor: 1 MonthCut: V-Cut
Light: Colibri Boss II
Beverage: Sweet Tea
Smoking Time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
The Brazilian wrapper shows off quite a bit of oils across the noticeably reddish medium brown tobacco. A couple of bulges are noticeable, slightly larger than your average veins, but no imperfections. There’s a medium aroma of old leather with sweetness from cocoa and a bit of cinnamon on the finish. To the touch, it’s pretty firm with an about average packaging on the foot. From the foot, I pick up a medium-full flavor with gingerbread and caramel being the only two flavors that come out from the fairly complex cigar.
Lighting
The v-cutter cuts cleanly. Aroma from the head is a lot of cinnamon and red pepper with sweet caramel breaking through from the generally spicy notes. It’s medium-tight, but a bit tighter than my ideal sweetspot, for those that keep up with these on a regular basis. Flavor from the cold draw is a medium nuts with a touch of pepper and cocoa on the finish. As my Colibri ignites the bottom, the cold Winston-Salem air sees a slightly cedary woodsy flavor. The first draw starts with chocolate and cedar transitioning via a pepper on my tongue to an earthy cedar finish with the black pepper once again creeping up at the end of the medium-full flavor profile.
First Third
It’s a mixture of sweet over dark chocolate with a bit of toastiness helping to meld the opposing cocoas together. Absolutely stunning actually. The dark cocoa doesn’t make it over for the finish, instead it’s sweet cocoa, nuts and hints of toastiness. Fortunately, the draw loosened a bit, getting close to my preference, but smoke production still stayed about average. I had to purge once and the light ash only seemed to want to stay on for a half an inch, but it really wasn’t too much of a hassle.
Second Third
My notes say it was pretty similar. There was an added meatiness and a bit less bitterness in the dark chocolate, but it was pretty much the same, still medium-full in flavor. The finish changed quite a bit with toastiness overtaking and nuts and cocoa being joined by a secondary herbal grass flavor. It shortened a bit, but still remained medium in flavor. The draw continued to loosen, hitting almost the dead center mark, which helped the smoke production increase. Aroma changed from cedar to toasty notes and the ash decided to stay around a bit longer.
Final Third
For whatever reason, the sticks that I’m pulling out seem to be having more and more of an active flavor in the final third. This is no different. At some points creamy, others toasty, a few minutes of deep nuts, some earth and a cocoa mixture. It changes, two or three puffs of one and then onto another. A few more puffs and a hybrid of a few flavors. It makes reviewing a bit difficult, but smoking absolutely wonderful. As you’d expect, the finish goes through quite a transformation as well, but it usually resembles one of the core flavors that is breaking free. While the draw remained the same, the smoke production actually increased ever-so-slightly, which was nice. The burn continued to be dead on perfect and for the first time since I lit up, the PDR left the medium strength department and hit the medium plus range.
My thoughts on this PDR, here.
Name: Pinar Del Rio BOTL.org Small Batch
Vitola: Corona Gorda
Size: 6 x 46
Wrapper: Brasil Bahía
Binder: Dominican Criollo 98
Filler: Dominican Habano & Nicaraguan Corojo
Country: Nicaragua
Price: $6.25 (Boxes of 20)
Source: Tim at Burning Leaf (Trade)
Time in Humidor: 1 MonthCut: V-Cut
Light: Colibri Boss II
Beverage: Sweet Tea
Smoking Time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
The Brazilian wrapper shows off quite a bit of oils across the noticeably reddish medium brown tobacco. A couple of bulges are noticeable, slightly larger than your average veins, but no imperfections. There’s a medium aroma of old leather with sweetness from cocoa and a bit of cinnamon on the finish. To the touch, it’s pretty firm with an about average packaging on the foot. From the foot, I pick up a medium-full flavor with gingerbread and caramel being the only two flavors that come out from the fairly complex cigar.
Lighting
The v-cutter cuts cleanly. Aroma from the head is a lot of cinnamon and red pepper with sweet caramel breaking through from the generally spicy notes. It’s medium-tight, but a bit tighter than my ideal sweetspot, for those that keep up with these on a regular basis. Flavor from the cold draw is a medium nuts with a touch of pepper and cocoa on the finish. As my Colibri ignites the bottom, the cold Winston-Salem air sees a slightly cedary woodsy flavor. The first draw starts with chocolate and cedar transitioning via a pepper on my tongue to an earthy cedar finish with the black pepper once again creeping up at the end of the medium-full flavor profile.
First Third
It’s a mixture of sweet over dark chocolate with a bit of toastiness helping to meld the opposing cocoas together. Absolutely stunning actually. The dark cocoa doesn’t make it over for the finish, instead it’s sweet cocoa, nuts and hints of toastiness. Fortunately, the draw loosened a bit, getting close to my preference, but smoke production still stayed about average. I had to purge once and the light ash only seemed to want to stay on for a half an inch, but it really wasn’t too much of a hassle.
Second Third
My notes say it was pretty similar. There was an added meatiness and a bit less bitterness in the dark chocolate, but it was pretty much the same, still medium-full in flavor. The finish changed quite a bit with toastiness overtaking and nuts and cocoa being joined by a secondary herbal grass flavor. It shortened a bit, but still remained medium in flavor. The draw continued to loosen, hitting almost the dead center mark, which helped the smoke production increase. Aroma changed from cedar to toasty notes and the ash decided to stay around a bit longer.
Final Third
For whatever reason, the sticks that I’m pulling out seem to be having more and more of an active flavor in the final third. This is no different. At some points creamy, others toasty, a few minutes of deep nuts, some earth and a cocoa mixture. It changes, two or three puffs of one and then onto another. A few more puffs and a hybrid of a few flavors. It makes reviewing a bit difficult, but smoking absolutely wonderful. As you’d expect, the finish goes through quite a transformation as well, but it usually resembles one of the core flavors that is breaking free. While the draw remained the same, the smoke production actually increased ever-so-slightly, which was nice. The burn continued to be dead on perfect and for the first time since I lit up, the PDR left the medium strength department and hit the medium plus range.
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