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Romeo y Julieta 2004 Edicion Limitada Hermosos No. 2
Size: 180 x 52 — Grand Corona
Smoke time: Uncompleted
Appearance: Rustic. Oily dark Colorado wrapper, so heavily veined that the Torcedors spiraling was all but invisible. Nicely capped.
Construction: Well balanced, the cigar felt well packed but with a slightly firmer spot reaching from about halfway to just below the Limitada band. But I needn’t have worried, the cold draw was fine and the smoking was good all the way. The burn was fine and never wandered, the ash however, though typically dark grey was very crumbly and the slightest tap would have it off . No corrections. No re-lights.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma I must say was excellent, rich and very barnyard. On lighting-up the initial taste was light lemon and something vaguely aniseed, and this quickly gave way to what would more or less characterise half of the smoke — a very light, mild soft lemon citrus, a bit like the fondant icing on fairy cakes. This taste became slightly sharper towards the end of the first third and was occasionally punctuated by honied notes. By far the best bit was the aroma in the resting smoke, which was damp barnyard, and which I could pick up a little of in retro-hale.
The second third was for the most part like the first but with sharp citric taste changing from lemon to something undefined. Around halfway something meatlike and vaguely unpleasant appeared, like too much olive oil on spaghetti Bolognese. Fortunately it went quickly and the cigar reverted back to ‘business as usual’ until the citrus died away completly leaving the general taste as a little light woodinesss and a lot mild tobacco.
I smoked a bit of the final third but I left it after reaching the conclusion that it was going nowhere and that backroom blender at Habanos must have hit upon the bright idea to concoct something to rival Silk Cut ... and this was it.
Overall: Good construction, good delivery. But the taste is bland almost to the extreme and so mild and umphless you could safely hand them out at a Girl Guide’s picnic. At 10 years it’s fair to say these have reached their peak, and how bad they were before I can only guess at, but one things for sure .... they won’t be getting any better.
Size: 180 x 52 — Grand Corona
Smoke time: Uncompleted
Appearance: Rustic. Oily dark Colorado wrapper, so heavily veined that the Torcedors spiraling was all but invisible. Nicely capped.
Construction: Well balanced, the cigar felt well packed but with a slightly firmer spot reaching from about halfway to just below the Limitada band. But I needn’t have worried, the cold draw was fine and the smoking was good all the way. The burn was fine and never wandered, the ash however, though typically dark grey was very crumbly and the slightest tap would have it off . No corrections. No re-lights.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma I must say was excellent, rich and very barnyard. On lighting-up the initial taste was light lemon and something vaguely aniseed, and this quickly gave way to what would more or less characterise half of the smoke — a very light, mild soft lemon citrus, a bit like the fondant icing on fairy cakes. This taste became slightly sharper towards the end of the first third and was occasionally punctuated by honied notes. By far the best bit was the aroma in the resting smoke, which was damp barnyard, and which I could pick up a little of in retro-hale.
The second third was for the most part like the first but with sharp citric taste changing from lemon to something undefined. Around halfway something meatlike and vaguely unpleasant appeared, like too much olive oil on spaghetti Bolognese. Fortunately it went quickly and the cigar reverted back to ‘business as usual’ until the citrus died away completly leaving the general taste as a little light woodinesss and a lot mild tobacco.
I smoked a bit of the final third but I left it after reaching the conclusion that it was going nowhere and that backroom blender at Habanos must have hit upon the bright idea to concoct something to rival Silk Cut ... and this was it.
Overall: Good construction, good delivery. But the taste is bland almost to the extreme and so mild and umphless you could safely hand them out at a Girl Guide’s picnic. At 10 years it’s fair to say these have reached their peak, and how bad they were before I can only guess at, but one things for sure .... they won’t be getting any better.
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