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These reviews seem to be a recurring thing for me but I had one of these today whilst out on a bike ride and I just had to post a review up, hope y'all enjoy 
As I was saying I like to go for a bike ride now and again so today I thought I'd have my lunch half-way through the ride and accompany it with this Por Larranaga. Just so you know my lunch was just a plain melon so there was nothing there to confuse flavours with the cigar. Alas, onto the stick...
The wrapper was a light hay/brown coloured wrapper, not the most alluring but there wasn't any trouble with the construction and that's the main thing.
After cutting and lighting the cigar the initial flavours were of lovely sweet tobacco, occasionally joined by a milky coffee note and perhaps some cedar in there as well. The further I got into the cigar the sweeter it got and I found that the retrohale was even better, it had that famous Por Larranaga burnt caramel taste to it that I had been searching for. I was very pleased with the first third, this flavour profile is right up my street.
As I got into the second third I found that a bitter dark chocolate came through in taste. Very much like the typical Ramon Allones chocolate cakey taste; fortunately however I found that unlike many Ramon Allones sticks this flavour didn't linger for too long which was great. The coffee notes still came and went but the chocolate was more dominant. An interesting second third I'd say, though I wished at this point that the cigar could become more full-bodied as at this point it was only a mild stick.
Moving into the final third and joy of joys, the cigar opened up into pure bliss! Everything I wished for happened at the end of the second third, it was just amazing. The body shifted to medium and the flavours didn't just go back to how they were in the first third they improved on it! I think I must have bought a ticket on the Por Larranaga Flavour Train because this stick just threw everything it possibly could at me: fruits on the now divine retrohale; almond pastry through the mouth; and a new one for me (I'm not just making this up, I genuinely tasted it) an absolutely heavenly waft of peanut butter milkshake came over my palette. I wish I could have shared this stick with someone as it was pure magic.
Not many cigars get me smiling and even less get me laughing but this just had me laughing in amazement! I must have looked a right idiot laughing at a cigar in my hand but a great cigar does weird things to you, and this cigar truly was a great cigar! Though I didn't care what the dog-walkers around me were thinking, I knew I had a PLPC and they didn't, I was happy in my little Cuban world.
I'm not a huge fan of the retrohale but during the final third it was fabulous, I had to close my eyes to try and pick out all the fruit that this little stick gave me. I think I got more soft fruits than any other fruit but certainly mild strawberry and pear; just amazing.
What also surprised me was the immaculate construction; I have never been able to nub a cigar as much as this, I kid you not my fingers starting burning before the smoke got hot. The flavours remained right up until my fingers couldn't take anymore.
The ash all dropped off in good 1.5 inch chunks and I didn't have a problem relighting, very good performance.
As you can tell from my review I think this is an absolutely lovely smoke. Perhaps sublime is the correct word to describe it.
The stick started lovely and sweet, turned dark and cakey in the second third, and then finally took you to heaven in the final third. The burn time was great too, I smoked this much quicker than I normally smoke as I was enjoying it so much but even that didn't stop it being a solid 45 minute smoke.
The only way this cigar could be improved is if the body was medium from the start but other than that it was a gorgeous smoke. I strongly suggest that if sweet, fruity, coffee, nutty cigars are your thing then you go out and buy some because if you get anything like the one I had then you are in for a real treat!
It's here that I'll change my scoring system to being out of 10 rather than out of 5 as I cannot score this 5 due to the fact that I haven't smoked many different varieties of cigars yet so I may come across an even better stick in years to come. However there's no way I can score this Petit Corona less than 9.5 out of 10, it was everything I hoped Por Larranaga to be and more!
The last photo shows the view I had whilst smoking; Warwickshire does have some nice countryside I must say.
Hope you enjoyed the review and I hope you enjoy Por Larranaga cigars as much as I do!
Cheers,
Matt
As I was saying I like to go for a bike ride now and again so today I thought I'd have my lunch half-way through the ride and accompany it with this Por Larranaga. Just so you know my lunch was just a plain melon so there was nothing there to confuse flavours with the cigar. Alas, onto the stick...
The wrapper was a light hay/brown coloured wrapper, not the most alluring but there wasn't any trouble with the construction and that's the main thing.
After cutting and lighting the cigar the initial flavours were of lovely sweet tobacco, occasionally joined by a milky coffee note and perhaps some cedar in there as well. The further I got into the cigar the sweeter it got and I found that the retrohale was even better, it had that famous Por Larranaga burnt caramel taste to it that I had been searching for. I was very pleased with the first third, this flavour profile is right up my street.
As I got into the second third I found that a bitter dark chocolate came through in taste. Very much like the typical Ramon Allones chocolate cakey taste; fortunately however I found that unlike many Ramon Allones sticks this flavour didn't linger for too long which was great. The coffee notes still came and went but the chocolate was more dominant. An interesting second third I'd say, though I wished at this point that the cigar could become more full-bodied as at this point it was only a mild stick.
Moving into the final third and joy of joys, the cigar opened up into pure bliss! Everything I wished for happened at the end of the second third, it was just amazing. The body shifted to medium and the flavours didn't just go back to how they were in the first third they improved on it! I think I must have bought a ticket on the Por Larranaga Flavour Train because this stick just threw everything it possibly could at me: fruits on the now divine retrohale; almond pastry through the mouth; and a new one for me (I'm not just making this up, I genuinely tasted it) an absolutely heavenly waft of peanut butter milkshake came over my palette. I wish I could have shared this stick with someone as it was pure magic.
Not many cigars get me smiling and even less get me laughing but this just had me laughing in amazement! I must have looked a right idiot laughing at a cigar in my hand but a great cigar does weird things to you, and this cigar truly was a great cigar! Though I didn't care what the dog-walkers around me were thinking, I knew I had a PLPC and they didn't, I was happy in my little Cuban world.
I'm not a huge fan of the retrohale but during the final third it was fabulous, I had to close my eyes to try and pick out all the fruit that this little stick gave me. I think I got more soft fruits than any other fruit but certainly mild strawberry and pear; just amazing.
What also surprised me was the immaculate construction; I have never been able to nub a cigar as much as this, I kid you not my fingers starting burning before the smoke got hot. The flavours remained right up until my fingers couldn't take anymore.
The ash all dropped off in good 1.5 inch chunks and I didn't have a problem relighting, very good performance.
As you can tell from my review I think this is an absolutely lovely smoke. Perhaps sublime is the correct word to describe it.
The stick started lovely and sweet, turned dark and cakey in the second third, and then finally took you to heaven in the final third. The burn time was great too, I smoked this much quicker than I normally smoke as I was enjoying it so much but even that didn't stop it being a solid 45 minute smoke.
The only way this cigar could be improved is if the body was medium from the start but other than that it was a gorgeous smoke. I strongly suggest that if sweet, fruity, coffee, nutty cigars are your thing then you go out and buy some because if you get anything like the one I had then you are in for a real treat!
It's here that I'll change my scoring system to being out of 10 rather than out of 5 as I cannot score this 5 due to the fact that I haven't smoked many different varieties of cigars yet so I may come across an even better stick in years to come. However there's no way I can score this Petit Corona less than 9.5 out of 10, it was everything I hoped Por Larranaga to be and more!
The last photo shows the view I had whilst smoking; Warwickshire does have some nice countryside I must say.
Hope you enjoyed the review and I hope you enjoy Por Larranaga cigars as much as I do!
Cheers,
Matt
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