A great cigar if you let it rest in your humidor for 3+ months. I know thats not a real option for many Sadly. Right out of the gate a flavor bomb. Spice, pepper, coffee, wood, leather and some vanilla sweetness. Smooth transitions of different flavor from background to the front and back again.
You know it’s a bad day at work when you take a cigar lunch break.
Senior Leaders might be the most sensitive coworkers in our company. Since when is stating you value someone’s advise cause so much drama from the other leaders.
Sorry not sorry, I prefer a drama free, non emotional leader’s advice.
As much as I love Diesel cigars this one just didn’t do it for me. Gonna give it another try as I still have majority of a box left but not very impressed with this one tonight.
Finally a decently warm day so it's time for a cigar! My sense of taste and smell is reduced a little because I caught the rona last week, but I can still taste it enough to enjoy it! A nice coffee, leathery and earthy flavor with some spiciness in the little retrohale I can muster. I can also taste a slight sweetness like oaky vanilla. Well balanced, nice even burn, and great draw. Beautiful Colorado oscuro wrapper. Got a special bottle of Woodford reserve Stanley hotel rye and it's pairing very well with this cigar. Down to the nub it's starting to taste a little bitter, which isn't a bad thing. Very enjoyable cigar overall.
Cigar was slightly damaged but smoked well. Very dark and earthy with a slight ash flavor. Chocolate, dark coffee, and leather became more pronounced in the second half. Low budget cigar but it was a good smoke and had a thick, rich flavor. Great heavy cigar for after a big meal.
Straight cut opened up the draw nicely. A good looking cigar with a slight oily sheen but not as dark as I was expecting from a habano oscuro wrapper. It's pretty windy so lighting was a bit of a chore but it lit up evenly and burned evenly for the first inch and a half. After that it started to canoe and I had to touch it up to even out the burn. A strong earthy flavor with a slight woodiness, coffee, and vanilla. After touching it up, the burn evened out. The next inch was not as tight of an ash, looked frilly and ribbed but had bright white ash with dark gray/black underneath, yellowing slightly at the top of the ash. Overall well balanced and smooth, I don't get much flavor of black pepper but the retrohale has a slight burn in the sinuses. The second third held on strong with an ash of almost 3 inches which is admirable considering it's stayed fairly windy out. The nub is full of flavor, earth, oak, and coffee. Smoked it as far as I could until it got too hot on my lips.
Used a punch cut which made the draw perfect. Strong tobacco flavor with espresso, leather and earth flavors and notes of oak and black pepper spice. After lighting it became quite windy and blew the ash off after ½". The stormy weather continued to pick up and blew the ash off after 1". Quite full flavor throughout the first half, oak, leather, earth, and espresso stayed strong. The burn is fairly uneven but I think that had a lot to do with the wind. I purposely ashed after the next inch to prepare for the final third. The spiciness seems to peak after ashing. The oak flavor has a vanilla sweetness in the final third.
The wind blew the cigar off the table onto the porch and cracked the wrapper before lighting. Half the cigar cracked but hopefully the second half will be fine. First few puffs are tasty. Dark espresso and earth notes right off the bat. Great oscuro flavor. Throughout smoking, the wrapper damage intensified and probably caused the burn to be poor and the draw to be ineffective. I enjoyed the flavor of the cigar but at times it produced little smoke and flavor leading to relighting and constant touch-ups. I couldn't gauge the flavor notes aside from dark and earthy, at times it was just flavorless. I would like to try it again without dropping it to see if that was part or most of the issues. The last third burned hot and lost the initial espresso flavor. Mostly leather and oak flavor. Constant .5-.75" ash probably made the flavor less than ideal. I feel like I need to smoke another cigar to make up for these inadequacies.
Pretty strong! Smells of hay/ barnyard with an earthy taste. I'm not a fan of the banding. Normally the bands I've seen round the foot will slide off but this one's stuck on good. The cap also tried to unravel after cutting but lick and stick and it stayed just fine.