Cigar Details: Flor de Cesar Toro Largo
- Vitola: Toro Extra
- Length: 6.5″
- Ring Gauge: 50
- Country of Origin: Nicaragua
- Wrapper: Brazil
- Binder: Honduras
- Filler: Nicaragua, Dominican Republic and Brazil
- Factory: Fabrica Oveja Negra
- Blender: James Brown
- Price: $11.00
- Release Date: April 2018
- Source: Developing Palates
Jiunn Liu
Pre-light Experience
The cigar has a Colorado claro wrapper shade with a very fine grit sandpaper like feel. Veins are well pressed, seams tight, bunch and roll slightly lumpy but overall with a nice give and head finished off with a well wrapped cap. Aromas from the wrapper give a pungent wet barnyard, funky cheese and cedar. Aromas from the foot tell the same since the foot is enclosed. Cold draw gives creamy nuttiness and subtle dry red pepper spice.
First Third
The first third opens with a good balance of spice, earth and sweetness. Soft/white notes of abundant buttered bread, dried nuts, hay, mixed with a palate coating dry red pepper spice and cedar. The spice is nearly endless, lingering on the palate for minutes on end. Retrohaling brings the dry red pepper spice front and center, really waking up the sinuses. Strength by the end of the initial inch is medium-full and body is medium.
Draw
Flawless draw given the perfect amount of air flow and resistance.
Jiunn | |
Pre Light | Good |
First Third | Good |
Second Third | Good |
Final Third | Average |
Burn | Amazing |
Draw | Amazing |
Overall | Good |
Overall
It’s been years since I did a proper blind review. I honestly miss it and feel like it is the best methodology to review a cigar (given the DP scoring method of course). So when fellow BOTL “Greek Baldy” Nick Bardis asked if I was up for it, I happily obliged. This cigar had the core main flavors that make up a good cigar. Sweetness, spice, wood and earth. The flavors themselves were good, but as a whole lacked harmony. Whoever blended this likes a heavier dose of strength and spice, even at times tipping the balance of sweetness and spice. The final third did get a bit monotonous as it was essentially carbon copies of the previous two thirds. With all that said, I’d smoke more.
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