A La Sirena Dubloon Salomon Cigar

Once again, I haven’t been smoking newer cigars because I don’t really have a lot of newer cigars. I have some interesting older cigars, but I’ve still been having some dental struggles, so I’ve been holding off on those. I’ll probably get to one of those this week. I sat in on a rare (for me) zoom herf with Pete Johnson and his crew last week for an hour or so of his record breaking 14 hour herf and smoked a Tatuaje HCS Maduro No. 1, which is a Holts Exclusive which I had picked up at Holts about 4 year ago. It was really nice, very rich and flavorful. My wife got her hands on a small table that she’s been covering with cigar bands, so every now and then she needs a specific band, so I’ve found myself smoking a certain cigar so she can have the band, which doesn’t bother me at all, since the table will be a reflection of my favorite cigars pretty much based on the volume of bands. Sometimes smoking the cigar is easier than sifting through bags of bands!

Yesterday I decided to smoke one of my remaining few treasured La Sirena Dubloons. (I made an obscure reference on my Instagram post to “Old School” which was Danny Ditkowich‘s distribution company, which had some brands such as Jaxx and Staxx, which were acquired by La Sirena in 2014. Nobody got it.) This is a cigar that La Sirena put out in 2013 as a limited Edition. Instead of the Broadleaf wrapper that was on the original La Sirena (it’s Habano Oscuro now), it has a Habano Oscuro wrapper, and it was made in the My Father factory, which is where all of the La Sirena cigars were made at the time. This is a large 7 ¼” x 56 Salomon which came in boxes of eight. This was a stupidly large cigar to smoke on a February afternoon, but, hey, no time like the present, right? I received these cigars sometime in 2014, so they’ve been resting in my humidors since then and the cellophane was a dark amber. The burn and draw was perfect, even at first lighting, and cigars of this shape can start a little tight. Two hours later and I didn’t want to put it down. Throughout the cigar I had the dense flavors I love in the La Sirena blend: Some spice along with espresso and some earthiness. There was a surprising cinnamon stretch for a minute about half way through, as well. This is a cigar that I’ll never see again, I’m afraid, strike that, I have two more, and an “A” with the same wrapper. La Sirena remains one of my favorite brands, and continues to be one of my site’s longest supporters, something for which I am deeply appreciative.