I’m kind of running low on new cigars to write about, and this isn’t a plea for new cigars or anything, just a bit of explanation of why things seem to have slowed down here a little. I haven’t been getting out to get new things to smoke enough. Some of it’s laziness, some of it’s just enjoying some of the cigars I have on hand. For instance, I smoked a CAO Flathead Sparkplug 450 that had been in the humidor for a few years that was really good, and smoked the new Perdomo 10th Anniversary Sungrown Toro again and decided that I really do enjoy it more than the Maduro, which is strange for me. This concludes the “odds and ends” portion of tonight’s post.
Tonight I smoked this year’s Herrera Esteli Habano Edicion Limitada Lancero. This cigar was announced last March, and was part of Drew Estate’s Summer Takeover. In the Herrera Esteli lineup, I tend to prefer the Maduro varieties, the Norteño and the Brazilian Maduro, and I tolerate the regular Habano line. In the case of this Lancero, it’s a different story. This is a special cigar. I need to dig around, because I think I still have one of last years in the humidor, but this years is really good. It’s a 7″ x 38 with a cap, no pigtail, which is just fine, I generally cut them anyway, no manhandling the pigtails for me. There’s a candy sweetness about halfway through that really was delightful, and the whole cigar was a pleasure to smoke, assuming one smokes it slowly, so as not to overheat it. As with all thin cigars, if they are smoked too fast they burn hot and taste bitter. This can be confused with being stronger, or the tired wrapper to filler ratio argument. Smoke a lancero slow, and it’s a nice, cool smoke.
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CigarCraig
