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La Gloria Cubana Medaille d?Or No 2
Size: 170 x 43 ? Dalias
Smoke time: 1hour 35mins
Box date: Unknown Source: MAW cigar from Jukka
Appearance: Gnarled and rugged with a heavily veined mid brown wrapper oozing with oils. The wrapper spital was almost camoflaged by the thickness of the veining. Not the prettiest cigar admittedly, but typically LGC as ?looks? aren?t really someting the marque is renowned for. Standard band ?A?.
Construction: Pinching along the cigar revealed some uneveness in packing and a definite harder area at and below the head. The triple cap however appeared perfectly applied. The pre-draw was very resistive and the smoking draw was difficult even a little poking with a corn-cob holderdidn?t loosen it that appreciably. The burn was reasonably straight and the dark grey ash remained reasonably compact throughout. No re-lights, no corrections.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma was grassy and very light. The first sensation was salt, and I mean a lot of salt, this cigar was the saltiest I?ve ever tasted. It?s the salt in the cigar which give it it?s ?zing? and the salt remains in the smoke becoming exponentially weaker with each third. Following on from the huge blast of salt I started to pick up first some lemon which brought with it some dry/sour sweetness and then some wood tastes plus a vegetal/herbaceous flavour. And that was basically it for the third ? salty, lemon wood. The taste was good, not exciting but the smoke itself was velvet smooth (drawn in heavy pulls rather than sips) and left a clean salt sharpened sweetness in my mouth. Into the second and the lemon taste became for a little while slightly more serbetlike and I was also getting some fruit hints like plum or greengage. The base tastes for the second third however were the previous lemon/wood plus the now receeding saltiness. In retro hale the smoke was heavily woody. The final third was perhaps the most interesting, (or at least would have been had not the draw problems caused me to let the cigar go with a good ten/fifteen minutes still left in it), I began to pick out some salty dark chocolate accompanied by a dry cherry almost colalike taste which then evolved into something tannic and tea like. But, with the draw struggling and the cigar heating .... I left it.
Overall: A nice tasteing cigar. Possibly a little one dimensional and with it?s full potential hampered by the tight draw. The flavours are however a satisfying medium and I would catagorise the Med d?Or 2 as an ideal Riverbank cigar, a pleasant and relaxing afternoon smoke for anglers and anyone just whiling away a bit of time.
Marks. On this smoking, I?m giving the LGC a token 7.2 because of todays poor draw, and which keeps the Partagas 898 still well on track.
Next up. The one I?m most scared of .... RyJ Cazadores.
Size: 170 x 43 ? Dalias
Smoke time: 1hour 35mins
Box date: Unknown Source: MAW cigar from Jukka
Appearance: Gnarled and rugged with a heavily veined mid brown wrapper oozing with oils. The wrapper spital was almost camoflaged by the thickness of the veining. Not the prettiest cigar admittedly, but typically LGC as ?looks? aren?t really someting the marque is renowned for. Standard band ?A?.
Construction: Pinching along the cigar revealed some uneveness in packing and a definite harder area at and below the head. The triple cap however appeared perfectly applied. The pre-draw was very resistive and the smoking draw was difficult even a little poking with a corn-cob holderdidn?t loosen it that appreciably. The burn was reasonably straight and the dark grey ash remained reasonably compact throughout. No re-lights, no corrections.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma was grassy and very light. The first sensation was salt, and I mean a lot of salt, this cigar was the saltiest I?ve ever tasted. It?s the salt in the cigar which give it it?s ?zing? and the salt remains in the smoke becoming exponentially weaker with each third. Following on from the huge blast of salt I started to pick up first some lemon which brought with it some dry/sour sweetness and then some wood tastes plus a vegetal/herbaceous flavour. And that was basically it for the third ? salty, lemon wood. The taste was good, not exciting but the smoke itself was velvet smooth (drawn in heavy pulls rather than sips) and left a clean salt sharpened sweetness in my mouth. Into the second and the lemon taste became for a little while slightly more serbetlike and I was also getting some fruit hints like plum or greengage. The base tastes for the second third however were the previous lemon/wood plus the now receeding saltiness. In retro hale the smoke was heavily woody. The final third was perhaps the most interesting, (or at least would have been had not the draw problems caused me to let the cigar go with a good ten/fifteen minutes still left in it), I began to pick out some salty dark chocolate accompanied by a dry cherry almost colalike taste which then evolved into something tannic and tea like. But, with the draw struggling and the cigar heating .... I left it.
Overall: A nice tasteing cigar. Possibly a little one dimensional and with it?s full potential hampered by the tight draw. The flavours are however a satisfying medium and I would catagorise the Med d?Or 2 as an ideal Riverbank cigar, a pleasant and relaxing afternoon smoke for anglers and anyone just whiling away a bit of time.
Marks. On this smoking, I?m giving the LGC a token 7.2 because of todays poor draw, and which keeps the Partagas 898 still well on track.
Next up. The one I?m most scared of .... RyJ Cazadores.
Out of interest, why are you scared of the RyJ Cazadores? Do you generally dislike it or do you reckon that it might knock the 898 into silver medal position?
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