Pre-light Experience

Seth: The MBombay Mora Toro is a nice looking cigar. It is pressed well, firm throughout and has a consistent and nice looking maduro wrapper. Probably San Andres, but who knows. Small veins are present throughout with a nice fine gritty texture. Aromas on the cigar are of rich earth, tobacco, dark cocoa and spices.
John: The MBombay Mora Toro features a Colorado Maduro wrapper and appears to be a Churchill vitola. The cigar is box-pressed with rounded edges, and the wrapper has a consistently smooth appearance. I weighed the cigar at 16.5 grams and measured the humidity with the Cigar Medics HumidiMeter Pro at 63.9%. Aromas from the wrapper included light, sweet tobacco, musty wood and faint earth. The foot offered primarily hay and wood.
Jiunn: The MBombay Mora Toro has an even Colorado maduro wrapper shade. Veins are well pressed, seams tight, bunch and roll even and the head is well wrapped and capped. Pre-light aromas give cedar and nuts.

MBombay Mora Toro

First Third

Seth: The first third begins with warm spices that are paired with some faint leather, earth, tobacco and mocha. The body and strength are just above the medium level, but it is not overly strong.
John: The first third opens with creamy, tannic wood, followed by medium-plus baking spices that linger into the post draw. Creamy wood leads off the retrohale, with baking spices providing the finish. As the first third settles in, a burning cardboard note begins to establish itself in the center of the retrohale. The profile remains largely linear as it progresses, offering little variation beyond the established wood and spice combination. As the cigar approaches the halfway point, sweet tobacco moves to the forefront of the retrohale, settling in alongside the creamy wood. Approximately 40 minutes into the smoking experience, dryness develops on the palate through the finish, lingering into the post draw. By the halfway point, chocolate has joined the finish, adding another flavor component to an otherwise relatively consistent profile.
Jiunn: The first third has a gritty profile with distinct dried red pepper spice on the tongue leading the pack, followed by dry cocoa and spicy cedar. Retrohaling shows big dried red pepper spice but some nuttiness helps taper the spice. The finish is lengthy with a full mouth of leather and cedar. Strength is medium-full and body is medium.

MBombay Mora Toro

Second Third

Seth: The second third is in line with the first. I am getting those rich earth and spice flavors with some mocha, tobacco and leather. Like before, medium in strength and body. Smooth finish.
John: The second third begins with creamy, sweet wood, accompanied by mild tannins through the finish that linger into the post draw between puffs. The profile lightens in strength as it continues, with wood and sweet tobacco carrying the bulk of the experience. The retrohale settles into a primarily light-plus baking spice component. By the halfway point, creamy wood, supported by sweet tobacco defines the profile. Mildly dry wood makes up the post draw, with faint earth providing some additional complexity. Through the bottom half, medium-strength earth moves into the lead position on the finish, lingering into the post draw between each puff. While this introduces a more pronounced earthy component, the profile remains fairly straightforward, with wood, tobacco sweetness and earth doing most of the work.
Jiunn: The second third is still very much dried red pepper spice forward on the mouth draws and finish as the spice is now starting to seed on the back of my throat. The other notes of dry cocoa, spicy cedar and leather are still there but it doesn’t really come close to the spice dominance. Strength and body is still medium-full and medium, respectively.

MBombay Mora Toro

Final Third

Seth: The final third is in line with the first and second. No change in profile, but a solid consistent profile from start to finish. Mocha, earth, spices and tobacco. Medium in strength and body.
John: The last third gets underway with creamy sweet tobacco, accompanied by wood accents. Dry, tannic wood establishes the post draw at medium strength, adding a more pronounced drying sensation to the experience. As the last third settles in, earth continues to define the finish and post draw at medium strength. The profile offers little additional development, with the earthy finish remaining the primary characteristic as the cigar progresses toward its conclusion. Combined with the increasingly persistent wood and earth, the final third does little to improve the overall experience.
Jiunn: Rawness and harshness with powerful dried red pepper spice on the back of the throat and stale cedar wood. There is basically no softer notes to taper out all this. Strength and body finishes the same medium-full and medium, respectively.

MBombay Mora Toro

Burn

Seth: The cigar burns great from start to finish.
John: As with every review, I lit the cigar with my Xikar Tactical single torch lighter. The burn began mildly uneven before self-correcting as it continued. The burn became uneven again in the second third and threatened to stall around the halfway point, requiring a touch-up to correct. The cigar went out in the last third, requiring a re-light. As the final third progressed, the burn stalled again, with the cigar going out and requiring another re-light. These repeated interruptions made burn performance a significant weakness.
Jiunn: Great burn performance featuring an even burn, tight ashes, ample smoke production and cool burning temperatures.

MBombay Mora Toro

Draw

Seth: Perfect draw.
John: As with every review, I used my Colibri SV to make a V-cut. I measured the draw with the Cigar Medics draw machine at 50 inches of water. Subjectively, I found the draw to be at most one notch toward the resistant spectrum, placing it in the ideal range between open and resistant.
Jiunn: The draw was also great as it hit the ideal balance of air flow and resistance.

Overall

Seth: The MBombay Mora Toro is an average blend with a familiar profile. It delivers rich earth with some tobacco, warm spices and cocoa throughout the cigar. It is not overly complex, but it has a solid profile that keeps me entertained from beginning to end. Cool finish on the blend with amazing construction.
John: Blind Cigar #1617 delivered an average smoking experience built primarily around creamy wood, sweet tobacco, baking spices and an increasingly prominent earthy finish. The first third established the central characteristics of the profile, with creamy wood and baking spices providing the initial structure. Sweet tobacco and chocolate offered some welcome variation as the cigar progressed, but a burning cardboard note and persistent dryness limited the overall refinement of the experience. The second third maintained much of the same character, with the strength easing back and sweet tobacco supporting the creamy wood. Baking spices remained present on the retrohale, while earth gradually moved into a more prominent position on the finish. There was enough movement to keep the cigar from becoming entirely static, but the profile remained relatively linear, with the same core flavors repeating rather than developing into something more layered. The final third was the weakest portion of the experience. Earth continued to define the finish and post draw, while dry, tannic wood added to the drying sensation. Rather than building toward a more satisfying conclusion, the profile became increasingly dominated by these less appealing characteristics. The repeated burn interruptions compounded the problem, with the cigar requiring multiple re-lights after struggling to maintain combustion. The draw was a clear positive, measuring 50 inches of water while feeling subjectively close to ideal and producing no meaningful draw-related concerns. Unfortunately, the excellent draw could not offset the Subpar burn performance or the lack of development in the final third. Ultimately, the MBombay Mora Toro offered some enjoyable elements in its creamy wood, sweet tobacco and baking spice combination, but the linear profile, persistent dryness and increasingly earthy finish kept the experience from rising above Average. Total smoking time was 2 hours and 12 minutes.
Jiunn: Assuming this is Mexican San Andres, this has to be the epitome of everything I hate about a shite Mexican San Andres. Spice dominant that irritates the palate, too earthy gritty, not enough softer flavors, this cigar had it all. The MBombay Mora Toro was not a pleasant experience and don’t care to come back to it anytime soon.

Seth Geise

SCORE

5.65

Cost/Point

$3.88

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John McTavish

SCORE

5.00

Cost/Point

$4.39

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Jiunn Liu

SCORE

5.40

Cost/Point

$4.06

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Team Cigar Review: MBombay Mora Toro