Okay guys I smoked this on Halloween and had a bunch of great photos. But alas my Son messed up my phone and I ended up having to get it factory reset and lost all of my photos for this review. You can check a few of them out on my instagram if you really want to.
So lets get started.
This is a 5x55 soft box press. The prelight smell was a sweet barnyard aroma with the prelight draw having spicy sweet earth notes. Its a Nicaraguan Puro but the wrapper is a "select Nicaraguan maduro" wrapper. Not sure qhat this means but it tastes great and looks beautiful. Its got a nice rich smooth feel and great construction
A little thing I have noticed about Reinado cigars. If you don't retrohail you are going to miss out on a lot. More so than you would from most other cigars.
Strength: medium to full
Body (flavor): full
1st 3rd
Right off the bat I'm getting a nice pepper on my lips. The smoke is thick and oily. Not a ton of smoke off the foot but a good ammount on the draw. The dominant flavors on the draw are a smooth sweet tobacco, leather and oak. There is a hint of coffee or something similar that I can't pick up yet. The finish is a nice dry sweet tobacco. The retrohail is where I'm really getting some great flavors. I'm picking up a strong cherry. ( I got the same taste with the Reinado Habanito and I love it) and a nice pepper. I really like a spicy and sweet profile so I am thoroughly enjoying myself at this point.
2nd 3rd
Okay so let me start by saying it took 45 min to smoke the first 3rd. This is gonna be a long cigar. The ash fell off about a quarter into the 2nd third. Flabors remain the same as the first 3rd until about halfway into the 2nd third, around this time I started to get that cherry from the retrohail comming in on the draw. Towards the end of the 2nd 3rd I picked up a maple in the mix and lost most of the oak from the first third.
Final 3rd
The oak is back and the maple syrup and pepper are the main flavors. It didn't shift much in the final third except it stepped up from a medium strength to defiantly full. The body and strenth of this cigar are very well balanced. With about 3/4 of inch left on the cigar I let it go out. At that point it had been burning for a little over two hours. I was very surprised by the burn time.
Overall I would give this cigar a 9.5 out of 10. For me its the perfect cigar the flavor profile, and strength to flavor ratio is spot on. I really enjoyed it and will definitely smoke more of them.
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So lets get started.
This is a 5x55 soft box press. The prelight smell was a sweet barnyard aroma with the prelight draw having spicy sweet earth notes. Its a Nicaraguan Puro but the wrapper is a "select Nicaraguan maduro" wrapper. Not sure qhat this means but it tastes great and looks beautiful. Its got a nice rich smooth feel and great construction
A little thing I have noticed about Reinado cigars. If you don't retrohail you are going to miss out on a lot. More so than you would from most other cigars.
Strength: medium to full
Body (flavor): full
1st 3rd
Right off the bat I'm getting a nice pepper on my lips. The smoke is thick and oily. Not a ton of smoke off the foot but a good ammount on the draw. The dominant flavors on the draw are a smooth sweet tobacco, leather and oak. There is a hint of coffee or something similar that I can't pick up yet. The finish is a nice dry sweet tobacco. The retrohail is where I'm really getting some great flavors. I'm picking up a strong cherry. ( I got the same taste with the Reinado Habanito and I love it) and a nice pepper. I really like a spicy and sweet profile so I am thoroughly enjoying myself at this point.
2nd 3rd
Okay so let me start by saying it took 45 min to smoke the first 3rd. This is gonna be a long cigar. The ash fell off about a quarter into the 2nd third. Flabors remain the same as the first 3rd until about halfway into the 2nd third, around this time I started to get that cherry from the retrohail comming in on the draw. Towards the end of the 2nd 3rd I picked up a maple in the mix and lost most of the oak from the first third.
Final 3rd
The oak is back and the maple syrup and pepper are the main flavors. It didn't shift much in the final third except it stepped up from a medium strength to defiantly full. The body and strenth of this cigar are very well balanced. With about 3/4 of inch left on the cigar I let it go out. At that point it had been burning for a little over two hours. I was very surprised by the burn time.
Overall I would give this cigar a 9.5 out of 10. For me its the perfect cigar the flavor profile, and strength to flavor ratio is spot on. I really enjoyed it and will definitely smoke more of them.
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