A Yargüera H. Upmann Toro and Some Other Cigars

I haven’t gotten to anything new in the second half of the week, I went with some standards. I smoked a Mi Querida Ancho Larga, and whenever I smoke one of these I can’t be happier. This cigar is just about as good as it gets. I have a Unicorn in my humidor that I’m kind of saving for when I finally land that next job, but when I smoke a Mi Querida it’s hard for me to imagine how the Unicorn could be that much better! It hits my palate just right. I had the Ancho Larga (might have been my last one), and an Umbagog in my hand and went for the Mi Querida, but the Umbagogs are awesome too. I also went with another favorite, the Don Juan Calavera, this time the Connecticut. This is among my favorite Connecticuts because it has a very rich flavor and doesn’t have any grassy flavors that one finds in some shade wrapped cigars. I had to deliver a new chick to my daughter for my grandaughters to raise (6 chickens isn’t enough, we decided to add a few more to the flock, and the girls needed something to do while they are home), so I took a La Gloria Cubana Serie R Esteli Maduro Sixty for the ride home. I really enjoy this cigar, and I enjoy the Nicaraguan wrapper version too, but I dig the Broadleaf. I prefer the Toro, but I had a handful of the gordos and it was the first one I grabbed out of the humidor. It was a great cigar. With everything going on in the world, having a couple cigars that were just absolute winners to my palate was quite therapeutic. 

Yesterday I decided to take a shot and try a cigar for the third time that I didn’t really care for the first two times I smoked it. It’s been a few years,  so I figured it was time to give my last Yargüera H. Upmann a try. To be honest, Altadis may not even make this anymore, although the yarguera.com website does have a 2020 copyright date. This toro has probably been in the humidor for close to four years, and I haven’t really been to keen to smoke it since I cared for it so little initially. I have to say, this one wasn’t bad. It performed well, and had a pleasant flavor. I’m not going to bother running out to someplace that’s doing curbside pickup and getting more, because the leathery flavor with very little sweetness or spice isn’t my preferred flavor profile, but it wasn’t bad and I was satisfied with the cigar. I guess it a few years of age helped. I can remember smoking H. Upmanns when I first got started 25 years ago, I think they had Cameroon wrappers, but except for the newer AJ Fernandez Upmann I haven’t been too much of a fan. I do like  some of the Cuban H. Upmanns though.    

That’s all for today, until the next time, 

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