What is the sweetest Cuban you can get?

[Guest]

As the title says really.

What is the sweetest (as in sugar sweet) tasting Cuban cigar that you can get?

[L_DOG]

I haven't experienced a sugary sweet cuban, but they certainly have a distinct taste. I guess HdM are the closest your gonna get. Full of fruit and leathery spices.

If thats still not your bag, Non cubans may be your only hope!

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[L_DOG]

Gate crashing again! Chocolatey smokes like the H Upmann mag48 LE '09 might be what your looking for. As previously mentioned, from my experience, your most likely to find the 'sugary sweetness' in non cubans'.

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[senor_robusto]

As the title says really.

What is the sweetest (as in sugar sweet) tasting Cuban cigar that you can get?

i've never had a sugar experience with cuban cigars...... mainly cocoa, espresso, spice, etc etc! that flavour profile i would imagine is available in cheap, artificially flavoured, american cigars.... and NC's from central america!

alex

[Smallclub]

Aged (6/7 years) Por Larra?aga PC can show a dark honey/caramel sweetness; Trinidad Robusto Extra have a pastry sweetness; good SLR and Partagas with some age can offer a deep "rum-like" sweetness; and there is the molasse of the maduro wrapper in most ELs.
But none of these is a "in your face " sweetness, and one needs a bit of experience to be able to taste it?

If sugar sweet flavours are your priority, you might like aromatics pipe tobaccos ? some of them are so sweet that you worry for your teeths when you smoke them!

[Ryan]

I've often seen and heard people go on about how sweet they find the Por Larranaga petit corona. I suppose they do have a certain sweetness but remember, always the most abundant flavour you'll get from any non-flavoured cigar is tobacco.
Other flavours , as a result or chemicals or psychology, will be in the background.
The wrapper tobacco will affect taste too as that is the part that touches your lips and tongue.
Your mood, the quality of the cigar, how well it draws and what you drink with the cigar will affect its flavour too.
A more acidic drink, such as a dry white wine or an unsweetened espresso, will make a cigar seem "sweeter".

Having said all that, the sweetest cigars I've had are panetelas rolled for me in Cuba that are all volado i.e. no seco and no ligero. Not terribly "complex" cigars but lovely sweet little smokes.
Thinner cigars tend to be sweeter as they will have less or no ligero tobacco and thus less strength. Having said that there are exceptions, there are mild larger ring-gauge cigars.



Edit. sorry Frank, I was writing this when you posted. When I said "I've seen people go on about the PLPCs", I wasn't referring to your post! I hope no offense!
I think I was kind of making the same point you are, "sweetness" can be present in a cigar but nowhere nearly as pronounced as in flavoured tobacco or certain pipe tobaccos.

[njs71]

I'm sorted for NC sweets was just wondering if there were any Cubans that were sweet.

My description "Sugar sweet" is prob the wrong way to describe what i,m asking. Molasses/chocolate is prob a better description of what i'm after.

The H Upmann mag48 LE '09 have caught my eye and are on my list. As are the HdM Epicure Especial. They both look nice and rich.

[Smallclub]

Edit. sorry Frank, I was writing this when you posted. When I said "I've seen people go on about the PLPCs", I wasn't referring to your post! I hope no offense!

No problem at all! We are basically saying the same thing.
And frankly I don't understand why so many people smoke young PLPCs. I have a beautiful cab from SEP 11, and as it reached it's 1st birthday I though I might test-taste it, and I experienced ultra strong flavors of earth and tobacco with a microscopic sweetness that will need 5 or 6 years to show up…

[smokin_e2011]

Most panatelas are fairly sweet and i find the reyes i have are sweet too...
The sweetest cigar i have had is a recent Juan Lopez Supreme R.E Canada....this was super sweet and if you can get some, your on a winner....

[njs71]

Superb, thanks again guys for all your input.

[Simon Bolivar]

Have to agree with the aged PLPC's but surprised no one mentioned aged LGC No 3.