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This is my first tasting on this forum, so let me know if there is something you missed and would like to see in a future tasting.
I used the first spring day in London sitting in our garden and lighting the first cigar in over a month. So I will find it hard to compare the flavours to others I smoked before.
I drank a Japanese Black Tea from Momo Cha Fine Teas to accompany the cigar.
The build quality of the Decade is superb. A fantastic looking stick with a shiny black wrapper. The cigar is tightly packed with beautifully coloured filling leaves that shine in rich amber tones, contrasting beautifully with the wrapper.
When I lit the cigar, the draw was perfect, not to light, not to tight. Smoke came plenty right from the start, but the flavours were harsh, full of spice and black pepper. It also left a rather dry mouth when smoking the first 1cm. But there was something waiting underneath all this powerful start. Something waiting to come out.
Towards the end of the first third the cigar changed character completely. Any harsh notes completely vanished and were replaced by full and rich notes of milk and chocolate. Almost like a Lat? coffee.
From then to the end it was one long and steady journey to get to a grand finale of pure dark chocolate.
The tea was overpowered in the beginning but soon accompanied the smoke perfectly. The Japanese Black Tea is very different from Indian or African tea. It has very strong floral notes and a natural sweetness that doesn't require sugar. When the cigar mellowed a bit, the tea came as the perfect companion and it's sweet notes harmonised perfectly with the chocolate flavours of the cigar.
The only problem I had was an uneven burn throughout the cigar. I had to correct the burn 3 times and it went out once. But that was a minor glitch in an otherwise outstanding performance.
If you are thinking about getting one of these, stop thinking and get it. You will not be disappointed.
I used the first spring day in London sitting in our garden and lighting the first cigar in over a month. So I will find it hard to compare the flavours to others I smoked before.
I drank a Japanese Black Tea from Momo Cha Fine Teas to accompany the cigar.
The build quality of the Decade is superb. A fantastic looking stick with a shiny black wrapper. The cigar is tightly packed with beautifully coloured filling leaves that shine in rich amber tones, contrasting beautifully with the wrapper.
When I lit the cigar, the draw was perfect, not to light, not to tight. Smoke came plenty right from the start, but the flavours were harsh, full of spice and black pepper. It also left a rather dry mouth when smoking the first 1cm. But there was something waiting underneath all this powerful start. Something waiting to come out.
Towards the end of the first third the cigar changed character completely. Any harsh notes completely vanished and were replaced by full and rich notes of milk and chocolate. Almost like a Lat? coffee.
From then to the end it was one long and steady journey to get to a grand finale of pure dark chocolate.
The tea was overpowered in the beginning but soon accompanied the smoke perfectly. The Japanese Black Tea is very different from Indian or African tea. It has very strong floral notes and a natural sweetness that doesn't require sugar. When the cigar mellowed a bit, the tea came as the perfect companion and it's sweet notes harmonised perfectly with the chocolate flavours of the cigar.
The only problem I had was an uneven burn throughout the cigar. I had to correct the burn 3 times and it went out once. But that was a minor glitch in an otherwise outstanding performance.
If you are thinking about getting one of these, stop thinking and get it. You will not be disappointed.
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