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Sibling Rivalry: Viaje Summerfest Robusto!!!

whodeeni

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Viaje Summerfest Robusto

This cigar has a milk chocolate wrapper with both small and medium sized
veins showing and it's also kind of toothy. It's very firm to the touch. It's packed
very well. The foot doesn't have any dimples where tobacco is moving. I also notice
a very thin line when the wrapper is cut off exposing the binder.



I suspect this is to give the cigar a more "perfect burn". This cigar has a beautiful
triple cap!

The cold draw is very spicy and the barnyard taste is distinguishable as well. I also notice
a significant amount of pepper too! When I sniff the foot I get that signature "viaje smell"
that I have come to know very intimately over the past 6 or 7 months.

I light the foot and immediately detect very rich tobacco, flavors of dark chocolate, cedar and
pepper. The pepper tends to linger on the palate and coats my entire tongue! Through the
nose I get rich tobacco, roasted nuts, cream, coffee and pepper (but not as harsh as a Pepin
stick..) The burn is slightly uneven. I take another puff and taste marshmallows, roasted nuts
and rich tobacco. A couple more puffs and I notice that the burn line is self correcting. It is
virtually razor sharp now! The retrohale is pepper, light marshmallow, light cedar and rich
tobacco.


2nd 3rd: The other flavors have subsided and cedar, sweet leather mesh very well with the
flavor and aroma of rich tobacco. Its as though the pepper was so prevalent in the first 3rd
just "vanished"! The same flavor profile continues and I also pick up notes of nougat. The
retrohale produces pepper, cedar, marshmallow and clean tobacco.

Final 3rd: The body has kicked into full gear! Cedar and rich tobacco continue until the
end. The spice all but died down. This is a great cigar!



Smoking Time: 1:10 minutes
 
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Another fine review from Mr. X! I noticed that NHC is now sold out of their Summerfest sampler. Anyone know where these are still in stock?
 
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Thanks for the great review.

That sounds like a delicious cigar.

I haven't smoked any Viajes yet, but with all of the glowing reviews (especially that of the Daisy Cutter) I intend to get some soon.
 

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Thanks Fella's!

Matt, more than likely those were notes on another cigar...
I've been doing reviews but not posting them for the most
part... I'm gonna have to start using my point & shoot if I
want to post reviews more often, the pics from my phone,
go halfway around the world before I can upload them to
photobucket and it's usually not worth the hassle to me...

Trade you a couple summerfest for a Jibarro!:eyebrow:

That's a lot of notes... ha.
 

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Great review man! Thanks! How the hell am i just now seeing this!? i can't believe it took me this long to view it!
 
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