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San Lotano Oval / Corona / First Review

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Size: Corona 5 x 44
Price: $6.35 from local B&M
Drink: Water
Location: My back deck

This is my first look at the San Lotano Oval after being recommended the stick at my local B&M. Construction is superb with minimal veins and no soft spots to be found. I normally don't care for many box pressed smokes but the oval shape feels very good in my hands. The cigar clips easily with my Xikar MTX and I am greeted with a cold draw of leather and cedar. After lighting the main flavors through the first third are cedar, leather, earth with a touch of pepper through the retrohale. Burn line is incredibly sharp and the ash is bright white and solid.

Rounding into the second third the strength start to pick up and a sweet cocoa taste joins the party. Burn and ash remain wonderful, while the draw is perfect. Finish is long and complex on the mouth with some anise and burnt toast flavors creeping in.

The final third brings a sweet almost graham cracker like flavor to the mix. Burn and draw are both spot on. I smoke this cigar down to the nub and contemplate driving back to the B&M to pick up more. Retrohale provides a twang of citrus and rich tobacco flavors

Overall this a wonderful and complex medium to medium-full stick from AJ Fernandez. Not as powerful as his MOW PA or Ruination lines but much more complex.
Final Score: 93
 

USCG Cigar Newb

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Thanks alot for this great review. Perfect timing. I had been reading about these in the AJ Fernandez cigar thread and everyone was saying positive things about these sticks. After reading your review I will def need to pick up some.
 

javajunkie

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great review! glad to see AJ getting into brick and mortar's, and these are a superb follow up to the regular lotanos, which are still great.
 

NickThePyro

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Damn that's a sexy ash! If my local B&M has these I will be picking up a couple. Too many stellar reviews to not try one. Keep up the awesome reviews!
 

danthebugman

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Nice review, keep 'em coming :thumbsup:. These keep getting good reviews. May have to break down and smoke one soon. And that is a damn fine ash on that cigar!

Dan
 

SkinsFanLarry

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Thanks for sharing your review. :thumbsup:

I finally tried one about two weeks ago and there will be more in my future. :cbig:
 
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