Ray at Providencia Cigars shared some of his new cigars with me recently, and I smoked two of them this week. I was intrigued by two of them in particular, the Detox and the Boom. Naturally I was drawn to the fact that they were both 6″ x 52 Toros, and they both had dark wrappers. When I looked at the blends, they both had San Andrés wrappers, Nicaraguan binders and fillers from Nicaragua, including Ometepe. All Providencia cigars were made in Honduras, however with Covid causing production delays, they are having cigars made at the Flor de San Luis factory in Esteli. I was anxious to compare these two cigars, the Detox is box pressed with a closed foot, the Boom is round, and has a shaggy foot. On paper, these cigars should saste the same, but this is an exercise in how the shape influences the flavor. Both cigars, like every 
Providencia cigar I’ve smoked, burned perfectly. The Detox had some power, it had a nice flavor of bitter cocoa and espresso. The Boom, based on it’s name, I expected to be stronger, but actually seemed mellower than the box pressed version, with the same flavors. I can’t say for sure if the blend is exact, except that in a brief conversation with Ray, he simply mentioned the shape contributing to the difference. As with a shaggy footed cigar, the cigar started rather bland until the wrapper started burning, whereas the closed foot on the Detox gave a blast of earthy San Andrés right off the bat. I really enjoyed both of these cigars, but I think I liked the box pressed Detox more than the Boom, it had a little more intense flavor than the Boom.
I have a couple of Providencia‘s Habano offerings up next, I can’t wait to try them. I might even dig into the humidor for some older Providencias. Like I said, whoever’s making their cigars know what they are doing, I’ve never had one that didn’t perform perfectly.
That’s all for today, until the next time,
CigarCraig
